Sakina Saifee

I’m a Senior Data Engineer with 5 years of experience designing, modernizing, and delivering enterprise data platforms on Azure, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric. I’ve delivered lakehouse architectures, large-scale migrations, and data discovery across Canada, Japan, Qatar, and the wider MEA region.

I focus on measurable outcomes—improving pipeline performance by up to 40% and reducing manual effort by 30%. I’m equally strong in client-facing pre-sales and solutioning, translating complex architectures into clear business value for senior business and technical stakeholders.

Across programs, I’m comfortable owning end-to-end technical delivery or leading data workstreams across distributed teams and multiple time zones.

In my most recent role, I led migrations (including Teradata to Databricks) and architected Microsoft Fabric lakehouses with RBAC governance, metadata-driven ingestion pipelines, and semantic models for Copilot natural-language querying and Power BI reporting. I also bring a practical engineering foundation through Spark (PySpark/Scala/SparkSQL), streaming with Kafka, and strong data modeling patterns like medallion and SCD.