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Rushik Shah

Senior Data Engineer

16+ Years Experience • Azure • Snowflake • AWS • Airflow • Data Vault
● Senior Data Engineering Talent
Experience 16+ Years
Current Role Data Architect
Core Focus Data Architecture / Cloud DW / Pipelines
Domains Financial Services / Healthcare / ITSM

Professional Summary

  • Senior Data Engineering & Analytics Architect with 16+ years of experience in client engagement, requirement analysis, and end-to-end design and development of large-scale Business Intelligence and Data Platforms.
  • Specialized in building modern, cloud-native data ecosystems with a strong focus on data architecture, data modeling, data warehousing, and scalable pipeline engineering.
  • Expert in designing and implementing robust data engineering solutions using Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, AWS Glue, AWS Redshift, EMR, and Talend, enabling high-performance analytics and enterprise reporting.
  • Strong background in workflow orchestration using Apache Airflow, CI/CD automation with Azure DevOps, and building resilient data ingestion frameworks leveraging configuration-driven pipelines, rule-based transformation layers, and Medallion/Data Vault architectures.
  • Proven expertise in Cloud Data Warehousing solutions across Snowflake, Azure Synapse, and AWS Redshift, along with dimensional modeling and enterprise data warehouse design.
  • Hands-on leader managing 15+ data engineering and analytics professionals, driving technical strategy, solution design, and delivery excellence.

Work History

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Data Architect
Oct 2021 – Present
ProjectData Integration, Analytics framework for ITSM ClientITSM

Client works on ITSM domain and built ITIL 2011 Certified solution that unifies service management, asset management, and operations management in a single, easy-to-use offering.

  • Designing scalable and high-performance data architecture based on client business and technical requirements.
  • Developing and orchestrating end-to-end data pipelines using Azure Data Factory (ADF) for extracting, transforming, and loading structured and semi-structured data into Azure Synapse Analytics and Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse.
  • Implementing Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold layers) using Azure Databricks (PySpark) to support scalable, reliable, and optimized big data processing.
  • Building and managing workflow orchestration using Apache Airflow for scheduling, monitoring, and managing dependencies across batch and near real-time data pipelines.
  • Designing and optimizing data models using Data Vault 2.0 methodology, ensuring scalability, auditability, and historical tracking in the data warehouse.
  • Designing and deploying CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, automating build, test, and deployment processes for data pipelines and Databricks notebooks.

Nitor Infotech

Data Engineer
Jul 2016 – Sep 2021
ProjectData Integration, Analytics & Reporting frameworkFinancial Services

Client is one of the largest financial institutions in terms of market capitalization, earnings and customers. Client wanted to build a custom data analytics platform for their business needs.

  • Architected and implemented end-to-end data ingestion frameworks to load structured and semi-structured data into a Data Vault architecture (Raw Vault & Business Vault) based on enterprise reporting and analytics requirements.
  • Designed and developed scalable Airflow DAGs and AWS Glue (PySpark) jobs to ingest data from multiple sources including RDBMS (MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL), streaming systems, ERP platforms, and external APIs into cloud data lakes (Amazon S3).
  • Modeled and implemented Data Vault 2.0 structures including Hubs, Links, and Satellites, ensuring historical tracking, auditability, and scalability of enterprise data assets.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and Jenkins to automate deployment of ETL workflows, Airflow DAGs, SQL scripts, and infrastructure configurations.
  • Established data lineage and impact analysis using Oracle Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC), ensuring governance, traceability, and compliance across the data ecosystem.
ProjectData Integration, Analytics & Reporting frameworkWorkforce Accommodation

The global leader in crew and workforce accommodations wanted to streamline and consolidate the Analytics platform.

  • Developed high-performance ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS Glue (PySpark) to ingest and process data from diverse sources such as MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Salesforce, and RESTful APIs.
  • Designed and implemented Snowflake-based cloud data warehouse architectures, applying Data Vault and dimensional modeling principles to support historical tracking and analytical scalability.
  • Built enterprise-grade BI reporting solutions using AWS QuickSight and Power BI, converting large datasets into meaningful dashboards and decision-support insights.
  • Optimized Glue PySpark workloads by implementing predicate pushdown, broadcast joins, partition tuning, and memory configuration, significantly improving runtime performance.
ProjectEDI Parsing & Data Quality for Healthcare projectHealthcare

The HealthCare Company integrates with any health insurance carrier or employer-sponsored plan and automatically brings together both lifestyle and disease management data and tools into a personalized health portal accessible on any mobile device or Internet web browser.

  • Architected and developed end-to-end ETL pipelines using Talend, integrating heterogeneous data sources including CSV, flat files, HL7 healthcare formats, Salesforce CRM, and relational databases into standardized canonical models.
  • Designed and implemented scalable data ingestion frameworks to migrate high-volume transactional data into an Enterprise Data Warehouse (Amazon Redshift), enabling structured analytics and reporting.
  • Built and orchestrated data workflows using Apache Airflow, automating dependency management, job scheduling, monitoring, and failure recovery across multiple data pipelines.
  • Developed Talend ETL solutions for Salesforce CRM data processing, enabling customer analytics, operational reporting, and cross-platform data synchronization.

Davizta India

Senior Data Engineer
Oct 2014 – Jun 2016
ProjectdRive Product DevelopmentRevenue Analytics

DRive is a revenue analysis product. Talend ETL is used to load data in terms of master data like customer, product etc and transaction data like, chargeback, rebate, direct sales etc to SQL and Hadoop systems.

  • Designed and developed end-to-end ETL pipelines using Talend to ingest, transform, and load large volumes of structured and semi-structured data from multiple source systems into the Enterprise Data Warehouse.
  • Built scalable data processing applications using Hadoop Map Reduce, enabling distributed processing of high-volume datasets and improving batch processing efficiency.
  • Modeled and implemented Data Vault architecture (Hubs, Links, Satellites) to support scalable, auditable, and historical data warehousing solutions.
  • Configured and managed Talend MDM data models, ensuring master data consistency and governance across enterprise systems.

IBM India

Data Engineer
Feb 2013 – Sep 2014
  • Designed and developed scalable data pipelines using the Hadoop ecosystem to process large volumes of structured and semi-structured data from multiple enterprise sources.
  • Engineered end-to-end data integration workflows between Hadoop platforms and MS SQL Server to enable centralized analytics and reporting.
  • Modeled enterprise data using Data Vault architecture, including Hubs, Links, and Satellites, ensuring scalability, auditability, and historical tracking.

Capgemini India

Analyst
May 2011 – Jan 2013
  • Designed and developed scalable web applications using C# and .NET framework, integrating backend services with MS SQL Server to support high-volume transactional systems.
  • Built and maintained robust ETL pipelines using SSIS, enabling efficient extraction, transformation, and loading of structured and semi-structured data from multiple data sources.
  • Performed advanced query optimization and execution plan analysis to improve database performance and reduce latency in data processing operations.

Chem E Tech Data Service

Senior Analyst
Jun 2008 – Apr 2011
  • Designed and developed scalable web applications using C#, ASP.NET, AJAX, JavaScript, CSS, and SQL Server 2005, ensuring high performance and optimized data handling capabilities.
  • Engineered and optimized complex SQL queries, stored procedures, views, triggers, and indexes to improve database performance, reduce latency, and support high-volume transactional systems.
  • Architected and maintained data models and relational database schemas, ensuring data integrity, normalization, and efficient storage design aligned with business requirements.

Skillsets

Data Architecture Data Modeling Cloud Data Warehousing Data Vault 2.0 Medallion Architecture Dimensional Modeling Batch & Real-Time Pipelines Apache Iceberg AWS DMS & SCT Migration Azure Data Factory Azure Synapse Snowflake Azure Databricks AWS Glue AWS Redshift EMR Apache Airflow Talend Kafka Azure DevOps Python SQL PySpark Scala Java Power BI Pandas NumPy

Applications & Tools

ETL & BI Tools
Talend ETL SSIS Apache Airflow Meltano Power BI
Languages & Big Data
Python Scala Java Spark Hive MapReduce Kafka Spark Streaming
Cloud Technologies
Azure Data Factory Azure Synapse Azure SQL Azure Functions AWS Glue (PySpark) Redshift RDS EMR Lambda DynamoDB Aurora DB Kinesis
Databases
SQL Server Postgres MySQL Cassandra HBase
DW Design Patterns
Star Schema Snowflake Schema Data Vault Data Mesh
Architecture
Lambda Architecture Kappa Architecture

Notable Achievements

  • Architected a Medallion (Bronze, Silver, Gold) platform on Azure Databricks with ADF pipelines feeding Synapse and Snowflake for an ITSM client at TCS.
  • Built Data Vault 2.0 ingestion frameworks on AWS Glue, Airflow, Redshift, and Snowflake for one of the largest financial institutions.
  • Optimized Glue PySpark workloads with predicate pushdown, broadcast joins, partition tuning, and memory configuration to cut runtimes on a workforce-analytics platform.
  • Established data lineage and impact analysis with Oracle Enterprise Data Catalog to support governance, traceability, and compliance.
  • Led and managed 15+ data engineering and analytics professionals, driving technical strategy, solution design, and delivery.
  • Delivered on-premise to cloud migrations using AWS DMS and SCT, and implemented Apache Iceberg with schema evolution and time travel.

Education

B.E. in Electronics & Communication
Gujarat University • 2007