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Syed Jawad Gilani

@syedjawadgilani

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I build cloud-native data platforms that turn complex data into business impact.

United Arab Emirates

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What I'm looking for

I'm seeking a Lead Big Data Solution Architect role where I can apply my technical depth, domain expertise, and passion for innovation to build scalable, cloud-native, next-generation data ecosystems.

At the Department of Culture & Tourism Abu Dhabi, I led delivery of a Microsoft Fabric analytics platform that unified operational, visitor, marketing, and heritage-asset data across museums.

I architected the Lakehouse, medallion standards, security controls, hybrid connectivity, metadata-driven pipelines, and governed Power BI semantic models—supporting visitor engagement, marketing optimization, and cultural programming decisions.

Previously at the Department of Health Abu Dhabi, I helped architect Cloudera CDP and Azure Databricks platforms for Digital Health Analytics, building batch and real-time pipelines, governance practices, and compliant data solutions for Saal AI and Malaffi.

Across banking, oil and gas, telecom, and retail projects, I’ve modernized data lakes and warehouses with Hadoop, Spark, Databricks, Informatica, Azure, AWS, and BI platforms. I’m seeking a Lead Big Data Solution Architect role where I can build next-generation data ecosystems.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Data Solution Architect / Unit Head Data Mgt. & Analytics

Department of Culture & Tourism

May 2025 - May 2026 (1 year)

Led implementation of a Microsoft Fabric end-to-end analytics platform, consolidating data into a unified Lakehouse. Architected data models, security frameworks, and metadata-driven pipelines for cross-museum analytics.

Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse Data Modeling Medallion Architecture RBAC RLS CLS Private Endpoints ADF Power BI SQL APIs Dynamics 365

Big Data Engineer/Solution Architect

Department of Health

Jun 2022 - May 2025 (2 years 11 months)

Architected and developed Azure data pipelines using Databricks, Data Factory, and Fabric. Built governance and compliance practices under DAMA, PDPL, HIPAA, and GDPR, and developed real-time and batch-processing pipelines on Hadoop Cloudera CDP.

Azure Databricks Data Factory Microsoft Fabric Apache NiFi Informatica BDM Python Hadoop Cloudera Hive Spark Kafka CI CD Data Governance GDPR HIPAA PDPL

Big Data Solution Architect

Allied Bank Limited

Mar 2020 - Apr 2022 (2 years 1 month)

Transformed the bank's ETL pipeline into a multi-source data mesh solution. Developed data lake and warehouse pipelines using Cloudera, Oracle Data Integrator, Informatica, and Power BI for 16 data sources.

Cloudera Oracle Data Integrator Informatica PowerCenter Informatica BDM Hive Spark Sqoop Oracle DB OBIEE Power BI Pl SQL T SQL Agile Scrum

Big Data Consultant

Qordata Inc.

Feb 2019 - Mar 2020 (1 year 1 month)

Implemented an Azure-based data pipeline for telematics log transformation to enable predictive and descriptive real-time analysis. Developed Spark applications using Scala and Spark SQL on Databricks.

Azure Data Factory Azure SQL Blob Storage Databricks Spark Scala HDInsight Jupyter Event Hub Redshift CI CD VSTS

Big Data & Hadoop Consultant

Teradata Think Big

Dec 2016 - Jan 2019 (2 years 1 month)

Developed Informatica Power Center and BDM jobs for data ingestion and transformation in Hadoop Cloudera Data Lake. Administered Cloudera clusters and implemented security improvements for HDP clusters.

Informatica PowerCenter Informatica BDM Blaze Spark Hive Impala Cloudera Hadoop HQL NiFi Kafka Cassandra AWS Teradata

Big Data, BI & ETL Developer

Genie Technologies (Pvt.) Ltd.

Aug 2015 - Nov 2016 (1 year 3 months)

Implemented Pentaho ETL and participated in BI reporting for clickstream affiliate marketing. Provided ETL support for optimization and problem resolution in scheduled pipelines.

Pentaho Oracle PostgreSQL BI Reporting Cloudera ETL