Senior Data Engineer

Salekin Ansari

Senior Data Engineer

Available to hire

Senior Data Engineer

Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior Cloud Data Software Engineer at BASF Canada Inc
January 1, 2025 - Present
End-to-end data warehousing work: built pipelines in Azure and Databricks; implemented Unity Catalog for centralized governance and access control; migrated pipelines from Azure Data Factory to Databricks; optimized PySpark jobs, reducing processing time by 40%; supported production incidents and data scientists.
Data Engineer Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services Bank of Montreal
May 1, 2024 - January 31, 2025
Designed data models and built ingestion pipelines using AWS Glue, Lambda, and S3 with PySpark and Python; developed end-to-end ingestion and transformation workflow (S3 to Redshift L1-L3); implemented data quality checks and SCD2; leveraged Azure and AWS lake services for medallion architecture; improved processing with Parquet and Airflow-based orchestration.
Big Data Engineer at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
July 1, 2022 - May 31, 2024
Built data models and pipelines using Azure Data Factory and Databricks (PySpark/SQL); delivered delta tables and end-to-end data ingestion from source to warehouse; implemented incremental loads and SCD2; supported analytics via Azure Synapse, AWS Athena; visualized real-time data with Power BI.
Associate Lead at NEC Software Solutions India Limited
October 1, 2020 - June 30, 2022
Ingested data from files and databases via Azure Data Factory and Databricks; created Hive tables in Spark and Python; managed data lake environments; implemented end-to-end capital markets flows for Broadridge, Morningstar, Wells Fargo; implemented SCD Type II; improved performance by PySpark optimizations (40%).
Technical Lead I at CitiusTech HealthCare Pvt Ltd
November 1, 2018 - September 30, 2020
Validated healthcare savings/spends calculations and patient extracts in Apache Spark; designed Hive warehouse tables on HDFS; participated in data modeling with BA; built scalable data solutions using Hadoop, Python, and PySpark; applied Spark optimizations reducing processing time by 40%.
Sr. Software Engineer at Mastek Limited
July 1, 2017 - October 31, 2018
Extracted and verified data from source files; performed unit testing; loaded data from CSV to staging and base tables via ODI; transformed and aggregated data; tested reports in OBIEE; implemented PySpark/Python logic for data processing.
Project Engineer at Wipro Technologies
March 1, 2013 - July 31, 2017
Developed Python-based logic to meet business requirements; wrote SQL scripts for data transformations; updated release notes and deployment docs; worked on Citi Bank capital markets data project; contributed to unit and integration testing.

Education

Bachelor's in Information Technology at University Of Mumbai
July 1, 2009 - May 1, 2012

Qualifications

Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional
January 11, 2030 - January 12, 2026
Microsoft Azure Data Engineering DP-203
January 11, 2030 - January 12, 2026
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900
January 11, 2030 - January 12, 2026
Certified Scrum Master
January 11, 2030 - January 12, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail, Software & Internet, Professional Services