Vijayalakshmi Balakrishnan

Vijayalakshmi Balakrishnan

Senior GCP Data Engineer
UK
Tamil, English
Full-time Remote

About Me

Senior GCP Data Engineer with 7+ years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable data platforms with a strong focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Hands-on expertise in BigQuery, Dataproc, Cloud Storage,…

Experience

Senior Data Engineer

Virtusa Consulting & Services Ltd · London , England , United Kingdom (UK)
Jun 2022 - Apr 2026 · 3 years 10 months

<p>Migrated OFSDF workloads from on-prem Hadoop to GCP using Dataproc, BigQuery, GCS, Cloud Composer, and Cloud Logging.</p><p> Designed and developed PySpark-based ingestion pipelines to load data into GCS Landing Zone.</p><p> Built scalable transformation pipelines on Dataproc and optimised analytical datasets in BigQuery for reporting and downstream analytics.</p><p> Used Pub/Sub for event-driven data ingestion and triggering downstream processing workflows.</p><p> Implemented secure access using IAM, service accounts, encryption, and GCP governance best practices.</p><p> Developed monitoring and alerting using Cloud Logging & Monitoring.</p><p> Built data products for Commercial Loan Customers & Management, integrating data from multiple systems.</p><p> Designed and implemented multi-layer architecture: Raw → Schema → Consolidation → Curation → Consumption.</p><p> Built Spark-Scala transformation framework supporting daily/monthly/FTS ingestion patterns.</p><p> Performed joins, unions, aggregations, and curated datasets for finance consumption.</p><p> Applied standardisation rules (datatype conversions, curated IDs, naming conventions).</p><p> Versioned and deployed code using Git-UP, Jenkins, UrbanCode, Spinnaker, and TWS.</p><p> Designed and optimised Databricks + Spark pipelines supporting analytics, ML, and regulatory reporting across a large enterprise environment (POC).</p><p> Built scalable ETL workflows using Python, PySpark, AWS Glue, Lambda, and S3, ensuring accuracy and reliability (POC).</p><p> Implemented Delta Lake–based lakehouse layers with schema governance, lineage, and automated data quality checks (POC).</p><p> Developed ingestion pipelines integrating APIs, RDBMS, Kafka/MSK, and cloud storage, delivering high-throughput and resilient data flows (POC).</p><p> Ensured compliance with GDPR, auditability, lineage, and financial regulatory controls.</p><p> Collaborated with architects, product owners, and downstream consumers to define SLAs, monitoring, and operational readiness.</p><p> Authored architecture documentation for ingestion patterns, cluster sizing, and governance.</p>

Developer

Glosoft Technologies · Chennai , Tamil Nadu , India
Feb 2017 - Apr 2022 · 5 years 2 months

<p>Designed and developed large-scale ETL pipelines using Sqoop, Hive, Spark, and Kafka.</p><p> Built incremental ingestion jobs and optimized Hive queries using partitioning and bucketing.</p><p> Developed Spark DataFrame transformations and delivered outputs in Parquet, ORC, and JSON formats.</p><p> Integrated data from Kafka, NoSQL, RDBMS, and file systems into the enterprise data lake.</p><p> Delivered real-time analytics using Elasticsearch and Kibana.</p><p> Improved operational stability through performance tuning and code optimization.</p><p> Developed PL/SQL workflows and optimized SQL queries for performance-critical applications.</p><p> Created complex views and materialized views with scheduled refresh cycles.</p><p> Performed AWR analysis, indexing, and tuning for high-volume workloads.</p><p> Enhanced existing applications and ensured stable production operations.</p><p> Followed SDLC and version control practices using Git.</p>

PROJECTS

Commercial Loans

Lloyds Banking Group
Duration : 20-Jun-2022 - 30-Apr-2026

<p>GCP Data Engineering & Migration</p><ul><li>Migrated OFSDF workloads from on‑prem Hadoop to GCP using Dataproc, BigQuery, GCS, Cloud Composer, Cloud Logging.</li><li>Designed and developed PySpark‑based ingestion pipelines to load data into GCS Landing Zone.</li><li>Built scalable transformation pipelines on Dataproc and optimised analytical datasets in BigQuery for reporting and downstream analytics.</li><li>Used Pub/Sub for event‑driven data ingestion and triggering downstream processing workflows.</li><li>Implemented secure access using IAM, service accounts, encryption, and GCP governance best practices.</li><li>Developed monitoring and alerting using Cloud Logging & Monitoring.</li></ul><p>Data Product Development (Commercial Loans Platform)</p><ul><li>Built data products for Commercial Loan Customers & Management, integrating data from multiple systems.</li><li>Designed and implemented multi‑layer architecture: Raw → Schema → Consolidation → Curation → Consumption.</li><li>Applied standardisation rules (datatype conversions, curated IDs, naming conventions).</li><li>Built Spark‑Scala transformation framework supporting daily/monthly/FTS ingestion patterns.</li><li>Performed joins, unions, aggregations, and curated datasets for finance consumption.</li><li>Versioned and deployed code using Git‑UP, Jenkins, UrbanCode, Spinnaker,TWS.</li></ul><p></p>

Certifications

Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate

other · Edinburgh , Scotland , United Kingdom (UK) · 2025

Skills

Python PySpark Spark SQL Scala Batch pipelines Streaming pipelines Kafka Spark Structured Streaming BigQuery Pub/Sub Dataproc Cloud Storage Cloud Composer Cloud Logging Cloud Monitoring IAM Service accounts Encryption Governance Terraform Jenkins Git CI/CD Databricks AWS Glue S3 Lambda Microservices CDC Incremental loads Data modelling Performance tuning Data validation Reconciliation Metadata management Agile delivery Stakeholder engagement SLA definition Sqoop Hive Spark Elasticsearch Kibana PL/SQL SQL Views Materialized views AWR analysis Indexing Parquet
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