About Me
Data Engineering professional with 9.5+ years of experience building and supporting enterprise ETL and data integration solutions across insurance and financial domains. Currently leads a 5–6 member engineering team, men…
Data Engineering professional with 9.5+ years of experience building and supporting enterprise ETL and data integration solutions across insurance and financial domains. Currently leads a 5–6 member engineering team, mentors engineers, conducts code reviews and collaborates directly with project/client leadership. Strong hands-on background in Ab Initio, Talend, Snowflake, SQL, Unix and AWS, with experience in data warehousing, SCD Type 2, reconciliation and high-volume processing. Open to immediate relocation to Dubai, UAE.
Experience
Data Engineering Specialist
<p>Lead a 5–6 member data engineering team, mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, and work directly with the Project Lead/client on technical assignments.<br>
Design and implement end-to-end ETL pipelines for insurance claims using Ab Initio, Talend, Snowflake and MongoDB.<br>
Develop and enhance data warehouse workflows with incremental loading and SCD Type 2 processing; work with approximately 15 staging tables, 15 target tables and 15 supporting views.<br>
Build a separate data product that combines active records from the data warehouse with corresponding new/updated claims from another database, using full-load processing of active records.<br>
Create and enhance ETL flows within an existing generic framework, independently modifying and building flows to meet project requirements.<br>
Implement data validation and reconciliation using before/after record counts and an audit table tracking inserted and updated records.<br>
Process 400K+ insurance claim records and 3.5M+ claim documents; implement parallel Unix processing where required to improve throughput.</p>
Senior Associate – Data Engineering
<p>Developed ETL pipelines using Talend and SQL for credit-card transaction data processing.<br>
Worked in a 4–5 member team supporting approximately 5–6 Talend jobs and data integration workflows.<br>
Revamped an older processing setup into a fully orchestrated Talend flow, improving operational consistency and reliability.<br>
Collaborated with stakeholders to translate requirements into data integration solutions and production-ready workflows.</p>
Application Development Senior Analyst / Analyst / Associate
<p>Progressed through Associate, Analyst and Senior Analyst roles while developing and supporting enterprise ETL solutions.<br>
Worked with global sales transaction data across approximately 37,000 stores, with datasets reaching 100K+ records.<br>
Developed and supported 20+ ETL jobs across global markets and resolved recurring production failures and common operational issues.<br>
Tuned HDFS configurations in Talend jobs, reducing processing time by approximately 20%.<br>
Worked with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into reliable data solutions and support data quality.</p>