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Naveen Kumar

Singapore

Summary

Data Analytics Leader and Practitioner with 14+ years of experience building data solutions and leading analytics initiatives to drive business decisions and strategy. Highly Experienced in Data Architecture, data modeling, Business Intelligence and Analytics. Extensive data Engineering experience building Data Warehouse, Data Mart and Analytical applications. Proven expertise in developing data pipelines from structured to unstructured sources, with strong skills in data architecture, modeling, and advanced analytics. Experienced in Data Architecture & Data Engineering activities to design and build analytical applications leveraging distributed and cloud-native technologies. Strong Hands-on experience with complex Transformation based data pipelines designed & developed using SQL, Python Structured data API / Library and Apache Spark. Experience in BI Analytics and building Analytics pipelines – Tableau, Business Objects, Pentaho and Google Data Studio. In-depth understanding of distributed computing and spark Architecture including Spark Core, SparkSQL, Dataframes etc. Demonstrated ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop innovative analytics solutions that achieve business goals. Experienced in advanced analytics like Segmentation, Cohort analysis, tabPy integration and Hyper API Successful track record in identifying and implementing process improvements and automation in data collection, analysis, and reporting. Championed data-driven culture, transforming organizations from descriptive to prescriptive analytics approaches.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Data Engineer

Alumni Services
04.2023 - Current
  • Led data domain/portfolio services and own end-to-end data projects—from understanding business needs to designing, implementing, and delivering scalable, automated data solutions that drive impact
  • Consulted and provided strategic solutions for driving organizational value, working directly under the CTO to align data initiatives with business objectives
  • Project: Data Platform for Leading Shipping Company
  • Lead the design and development of data Platform for Leading Shipping Company
  • Designed and developed scalable data platform infrastructure using Azure Synapse Analytics, PySpark, Azure Data Factory, and Terraform, reducing data processing costs by 35%
  • Developed and maintained a robust data pipeline architecture, resulting in a 20% increase in data processing efficiency and supporting timely insights for decision-making
  • Identified and defined key data leadership metrics, establishing governance frameworks that improved data quality by 40%
  • Led targeted initiatives and delivered workshops to enhance data literacy and governance for over 50 business stakeholders, resulting in increased adoption of data-driven decision-making
  • Project: Data Migration Platform for Leading shipping client
  • Created cloud data migration/integration platform on Azure using ADF, Databricks, and Power Apps to successfully migrate data from 20+ finance systems to enterprise ERP within strict 6-month timeline
  • Defined and implemented comprehensive Data Quality Framework with automated validation rules, reducing data errors by 75% and ensuring regulatory compliance
  • Developed Power BI dashboards for quality monitoring and migration progress tracking, providing stakeholders with real-time visibility into project status and data integrity metrics

Senior Data Engineer

HSBC
10.2022 - 03.2023
  • Define canonical data models for Global Banking and functions
  • Collaborate with data project teams and engineering teams to design data models
  • Design data models for Regulatory reports for Global Banking and functions
  • Perform EDA, reverse engineering of physical data models from databases and ETL/ELT scripts
  • Standardize domain data models with Industry standard models (BIAN, FIBO)

Senior Data Engineer

Equinix
05.2020 - 10.2022
  • Design and develop ETL/ELT engineering patterns using Python on Spark and SQL
  • Developed mapping and framework using Python, SQL, Informatica, and Exasol
  • Refactored and engineer data pipelines from on-premises to Google cloud
  • Developed SPARK data pipelines for ingestion from Dataproc (GCP Managed Hadoop) to BigQuery for Analytics and Data Science applications
  • Developed event-based pipelines to data streaming using Kafka and Pub/sub to Dataproc (Hadoop)
  • Troubleshooting maintenance, and optimization or enhancement of existing processes
  • Collaborate with stakeholders including the BSA, Report developers, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs
  • Automated manual process, optimizing data pipelines and processes for greater scalability
  • Migrated/Re-created existing dashboards/reports in OBI, SFDC and SiSense to Tableau

Solution Engineer

Hitachi Vantara
05.2019 - 04.2020
  • Engineered solutions and consulting/advisory for Pentaho suite of products, to build Big Data applications and Analytics
  • Assisted and worked closely with Pre-Sales teams to understand customer requirements and engineer solutions
  • Built Proof-of-value for customer Business case to Demonstrate Pentaho platform capabilities and benefits
  • Designed Proof-of-value for train crowd analytics from Wi-Fi sniffer data (pcap) pipeline in PDI (Pentaho Data Integration)
  • Implemented self-service data catalog platform, for organizations for easy adoption of Big Data
  • Lead a team to create the Insurance recommendation demo powered by Pentaho platform and demonstrated this at Singapore FinTech event 2019
  • Onboard and Migrate dashboards/reports from other reporting tools (Tableau and Power BI) to Pentaho

Data Architect

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
02.2017 - 04.2019
  • Company Overview: Client: Singapore Airlines
  • Create and maintain a Datawarehouse and Business Intelligence applications roadmap for the customer
  • Solution architecture and data models based on business requirements
  • Architect and oversee the migration or upgrade of data/product from existing system to new versions/products
  • Review and engage in data modeling for new Data Mart/Datawarehouse implementations and database design
  • Evaluating products/solutions for various Business reporting/analytical needs and demonstrating PoC (Proof of Concepts)
  • Led proof-of-concepts and pilot projects for BO to Tableau, Data warehouse migration from DB2 to Redshift
  • Architected and implemented GDPR and PDPA compliance policies for Datawarehouse and BI applications
  • Create tableau dashboards from redshift database and Datawarehouse (on-premises)
  • Client: Singapore Airlines

Senior Data Engineer & Business Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
01.2011 - 01.2017
  • Company Overview: Client: Singapore Airlines
  • Participate in client meetings to understand business needs, outlining problems, opportunities, and solutions for a business
  • Engage with Customer for Requirements engineering and improvement opportunities
  • Manage customer relationships and expectations by translating and simplifying business requirements
  • Translating business requirements into conceptual, logical and physical data models
  • Maintain and comply with SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for all BI applications
  • Led and Upgraded SAP Business Objects from XI to SAP BI 4.2
  • Developed proof-of-concepts for SAP BW cubes and SAP Business Objects integration
  • Client: Singapore Airlines

Education

PG Diploma - Data Science

IIITB
01.2020

Bachelor's Degree - undefined

N.B.K.R Institute of Science & Tech
Nellore, Andhra Pradesh
01.2010

Skills

  • Data Engineering
  • Data Pipelines
  • Machine Learning
  • Project Management
  • Key Performance Indicators
  • Analytical Skills
  • Business Performance
  • Business Strategies
  • Data Analysis
  • Cloud
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Analytics & BI Tools
  • Tableau
  • Power BI
  • Pentaho Analytics
  • Data Technologies
  • Databricks
  • Apache Spark
  • Hive
  • Apache Airflow
  • SQL
  • Data Modeling
  • Data Warehousing
  • Data Lakehouse
  • Cloud Platforms
  • Azure – Synapse
  • ADF
  • Stream Analytics
  • GCP - BigQuery
  • AWS - Redshift
  • Languages/Frameworks
  • PL/SQL
  • Python
  • PySpark
  • Databases
  • SQL Server
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Oracle
  • Exasol
  • ETL Tools
  • ADF (Azure Data Factory)
  • DataStage
  • Informatica
  • Pentaho
  • Version Control & DevOps
  • Git
  • Azure DevOps
  • Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)

Certification

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator
  • Databricks Certified: Data Engineer Associate
  • Exasol Certified Database Developer

Personal Information

Nationality: Indian

Employment Status

Employment Pass (EP)

Timeline

Lead Data Engineer

Alumni Services
04.2023 - Current

Senior Data Engineer

HSBC
10.2022 - 03.2023

Senior Data Engineer

Equinix
05.2020 - 10.2022

Solution Engineer

Hitachi Vantara
05.2019 - 04.2020

Data Architect

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
02.2017 - 04.2019

Senior Data Engineer & Business Analyst

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
01.2011 - 01.2017

PG Diploma - Data Science

IIITB

Bachelor's Degree - undefined

N.B.K.R Institute of Science & Tech

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