KAJAL DAS

ad3569@r.postjobfree.com Pleasanton, CA, ****6 925-***-**** www.linkedin.com/in/kajaldas1

CLOUD DATA ARCHITECT DATA ENGINEERING SNOWFLAKE,DBT DATA MODERNIZATION Visionary Data Architect with comprehensive expertise in designing and executing cloud-based data platforms and analytics solutions. Proven track record in leading data modernization initiatives, employing cutting-edge technologies to enhance decision-making and operational efficiency. Skilled in fostering innovation and collaboration across fintech organizations, ensuring data integrity, security, and compliance

● Advanced Data Modeling and Warehousing: Utilized Erwin and Toad Data Modeler to architect sophisticated physical and logical models for data warehouses. These efforts supported enhanced analytics and reporting, directly influencing strategic marketing and operational decisions.

● Strategic Data Platform Leadership: Championed the creation of scalable, cloud-based data platforms with Snowflake, AWS, and DBT, enhancing data processing and customer engagement by 30% and 25% respectively. Facilitated cross-functional collaboration to tailor solutions, ensuring scalability and efficiency.

● Data Migration Expertise: Orchestrated data migration initiatives resulting in an annual cost saving of approximately $0.25 million from tool costs. Additionally, efficiency increased by 30% as the team no longer needed to focus on multiple data warehouse operations.

● Data Mesh Architecture Implementation: Initiated data mesh architecture to enable domain-based designs, improving data integration, accessibility, and governance, thus enhancing decision-making and operational efficiency.

● Proficiency in Big Data Technologies: Proficiency in Big Data Technologies: Expert in utilizing Spark and Spark SQL for high-volume data processing, optimizing jobs to improve performance by 40% and cost-efficiency. Enabled advanced analytics and machine learning pipelines

● Data Privacy and Security: Led the development of robust data privacy protocols using Snowflake's PII tools and DataHub, strengthening the security posture and compliance of sensitive data management.

● Agile and Product Development: Proficient in Agile project management, spearheading program development and the creation of self-service data products that enhance analytical insights.

● AI Integration for Analytics: Leveraged OpenAI API and LLM to enhance Snowflake's analytical functionalities, resulting in a remarkable 90% reduction in query time, from days to mere seconds.

● Contribution to Financial Analytics Knowledge: Authored a published article on

"Customer Attrition Analytics in Banking" (October 2017), contributing valuable insights to the financial analytics field.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Fivestars by Sumup, USA Jan 2022- present

Senior Data Architect & Data Product Manager

● Spearheaded the design and implementation of a streamlined pipeline using Kafka for streaming transactions from RDS to Snowflake, and orchestrated reverse ETL through APIs for seamless data integration. Enhanced transaction processing efficiency and application performance

● Pioneered data-driven strategies to boost merchant engagement and loyalty program effectiveness, leading to a 25% increase and securing 2 new enterprise accounts through centralizing customer view.

First Tech Credit Union, CA, USA Oct 2019- Jan 2022 Manager - Data Engineering

● Pioneered centralized cloud based data platform setup using Talend and Snowflake to create a scalable and flexible database system allowing business to define data strategy for organization.

● Instrumental in executing data integration migration project from on-prem version to cloud based data integration to improve data availability SLA by 50%, enabling frequent data ingestion without disrupting usage.

Cognizant Technology Solutions, CA, USA Nov 2006- Oct 2019 Big Data Lead, EDW Architect

● Responsible for integration of a large number of risk, finance and customer data into Data Lake range of business functions for CECL, AML and Fraud data analytics helping to predict customer risk achieving 35% increase in employee fraud prediction.

● Drive a culture of data quality and contribute to enhanced operational efficiency of big data jobs, resulting in reducing the number of data quality bugs by 20% and reducing the failure of data load due to poor quality data.

SKILLS:

● Technical Skills: Data Architecture, Cloud Computing (AWS, S3,Snowflake), Data Integration (Airflow, Kafka,Kestra IO,Meltano), Tableau, DBT, Python,GitHub, Predictive Analytics, Kubernates,Docker, Salesforce, Terraform(IaC), Athena,Redshift, TreasureData,Oracle,DataHub, Spark,Spark SQL,Hive, Erwin,Toad Data Modeler. EDUCATION:

MBA, Business Analytics, Alliance University, Bangalore, India, 2017 Bachelor of Commerce, Ranchi University, Ranchi, India, 1996

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