Data Architect Resume
West Chester, PA
SUMMARY
- Around 7 years of experience as a Sr. Data Architect/Data Analyst and Data Modeler with high proficiency in requirement gathering and data modeling.
- Designing the architecture of the data warehouse after understanding and analyzing the legacy databases.
- Hands on experience in Normalization and De - Normalization techniques for optimum performance in relational and dimensional database environments.
- Good understanding and hands on experience in setting up and maintaining NoSQL Databases like Cassandra, Mongo DB, and HBase.
- Sound knowledge in Data Analysis, Data Validation, Data Cleansing, Data Verification and identifying data mismatch.
- Extensive knowledge of Big data, Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, NoSQL Databases and other emerging technologies.
- Very good experience and knowledge on Amazon Web Services: AWS Redshift, AWS S3 and AWS EMR.
- Excellent Knowledge of Ralph Kimball and Bill Inmon's approaches to Data Warehousing.
- Experience in working on Distributed storage for analysis and processing of large data sets using Apache Hadoop.
- Strong experience in using MS Excel and MS Access to dump the data and analyze based on business needs.
- Experience designing security at both the schema level and the accessibility level in conjunction with the DBAs
- Experience in Designing and implementing data structures and commonly used data business intelligence tools for data analysis.
- Expert in building Enterprise Data Warehouse or Data warehouse appliances from Scratch using both Kimball and Inmon Approach.
- Experience working with Agile and Waterfall data modeling methodologies.
- Extensive experience in using ER modeling tools such as Erwin and ER/Studio, Teradata, BTEQ and MDM.
- Excellent SQL programming skills and developed Stored Procedures, Triggers, Functions, Packages using SQL, PL/SQL.
- Experience in Data transformation and Data mapping from source to target database schemas and also data cleansing.
- Expertise on Relational Data modeling (3NF) and Dimensional data modeling.
- Extensive experience on usage of ETL & Reporting tools like SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
- Efficient in implementing Normalization to 3NF/ De-normalization techniques for optimum performance in relational and dimensional database environment
- Proficient in data mart design using dimensional data modeling - identifying Facts and Dimensions, Star Schema and Snowflake Schema.
- Proficient in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Project Management methodologies, and Microsoft SQL Server database management.
- Experience in data analysis, data migration and data modeling activities.
- Hands on experience with modeling using Erwin in both forward and reverse engineering processes.
- Solid understanding of Data Governance, Meta Data, Data Management and control; Adept in Data warehouse and Data mart architecture.
- Strong background in data processing, data analysis with hands on experience in MS Excel, MS Access, Unix and Windows Servers.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Data Modeling Tools: Erwin Data Modeler 9.7, Erwin Model Manager, ER Studio v17, and Power Designer.
Programming Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, HTML5, C++ and XML.
Reporting Tools: SSRS, Power BI, Tableau, SSAS, MS-Excel, SAS BI Platform.
OLAP Tools: Tableau 10.5, SAP BO, SSAS, Business Objects, and Crystal Reports
Cloud Platform: AWS, MS Azure, Google Cloud, Cloud Stack/Open Stack
Databases: Oracle 12c/11g, Teradata R15/R14, MS SQL Server 2016/2014, DB2.
Operating System: Windows, Unix, Sun Solaris
Methodologies: RAD, JAD, RUP, UML, System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile, Waterfall Model.
AWS tools: Amazon Web Services, EC2, S3 Bucket, AMI, RDS, Amazon Redshift.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, West Chester, PA
Data Architect
Responsibilities:
- Massively involved in Data Architect role to review business requirement and compose source to target data mapping documents.
- Analyzed business requirements, system requirements, and data mapping specification requirements.
- Review and analysis of business requirements for identification of data sources and target systems.
- Analyzed data using Hadoop components Hive and Pig and created tables in hive for the end users.
- Queried SQL Server for data validation along with developing validation worksheets in Excel to validate.
- Applied Data Governance rules (primary qualifier, Class words and valid abbreviation in Table name and Column names).
- Included migration of existing applications and development of new applications using AWS cloud services.
- Developed test strategies and plans for Unit, Integration, System and User Acceptance Testing.
- Defined and Created OLAP Schema's - star schemas for use in building Cubes, based on Multiple Data Stores for use SSRS Reports.
- Experienced with a variety of statistical and database programs (e.g., STATA, SAS, R and/or SQL)
- Pipelined (ingest/clean/munge/transform) data for feature extraction toward downstream classification.
- Analyze source systems for data acquisition architect data feathering logic across different source systems.
- Designed logical and physical data models using Power Designer tool in medium to high complexity, according to company standards.
- Communicated strategies and process around data modeling and data architecture to cross functional groups.
- Specifies overall Data Architecture for all areas and domains of the enterprise, including Data Acquisition, ODS, MDM, Data Warehouse, Data Provisioning, ETL and BI.
- Created reports with Crystal Reports and scheduled to run daily basis.
- Done data migration from an RDBMS to a NoSQL database, and gives the whole picture for data deployed in various data systems.
- Coordinated with Data Architects and Data Modelers to create new schemas to improve reports execution time, worked on creating optimized Data Mart reports.
- Used the Agile Scrum methodology to build the different phases of Software development life cycle.
- Driven the technical design of AWS solutions by working with customers to understand their needs.
- Designed and architecting AWS Cloud solutions for data and analytical workloads such as warehouses, Big Data, data lakes, real-time streams and advanced analytics.
- Gathered and analyzed existing physical data models for in scope applications and proposed the changes to the data models according to the requirements.
- Used Informatica tool for profiling the tables as it helps us understand content, structure, relationships, etc. about the data in the data source we are analyzing.
- Was using in-house tool for profiling the tables using Spark.
Environment: Hadoop, Hive, MDM, PL/SQL, Sql Server 2015, Nosql, MS Office (Word, Power Point, Access, Excel, Outlook), SAP Power Designer, MS Visio, Crystal Reports.
Confidential - Phoenix, AZ
Sr. Data Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Performed Data Analysis and Data Profiling and worked on data transformations and data quality rules.
- Extracted data from different sources like Oracle and text files using SAS/Access, SAS SQL procedures and created SAS datasets.
- Developed SQL Joins, SQL queries, tuned SQL, views, test tables, scripts in development environment.
- Experienced in developing business reports by writing complex SQL queries using views, volatile tables.
- Extensively use SAS procedures like means, frequency and other statistical calculations for Data validation.
- Performed Data Analysis and extensive Data validation by writing several complex SQL queries.
- Involved in design and development of standard and ad-hoc reporting using SQL/SSRS
- Identified source databases and created the dimensional tables and checked for data quality using complex SQL queries.
- Responsible for data lineage, maintaining data dictionary, naming standards and data quality.
- Developed SAS macros for data cleaning, reporting and to support routing processing.
- Created SQL scripts to find Data quality issues and to identify keys, Data anomalies, and Data validation issues.
- Actively involved in writing T-SQL Programming for implementing Stored Procedures and Functions and cursors, views for different tasks.
- Performed Gap Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with the new business requirement.
- Used MS Visio for business flow diagrams and defined the workflow.
- Performed Data analysis for the existing Data warehouse and changed the internal schema for performance.
- Performed Data analysis and Data profiling using complex SQL on various sources systems.
- Wrote SQL Stored Procedures and Views, and coordinate and perform in-depth testing of new and existing systems.
- Performed Data Manipulation using MS Excel Pivot Sheets and produced various charts for creating the mock reports.
- Used SQL Server and MS Excel on daily basis to manipulate the data for business intelligence reporting needs.
Environment: Oracle 10g, SQL, SAS, SSRS, T-SQL, MS Excel, MS Visio
Confidential
Data Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Worked as Data Analyst for requirements gathering, business analysis and project coordination.
- Worked with the Data Analysis team to gathering the Data Profiling information
- Responsible for the analysis of business requirements and design implementation of the business solution.
- Performed Data Analysis and Data validation by writing SQL queries using SQL assistant.
- Translated business concepts into XML vocabularies by designing XML Schemas with UML
- Gathered business requirements through interviews, surveys with users and Business analysts.
- Worked on Data Mining and data validation to ensure the accuracy of the data between the warehouse and source systems.
- Developed SQL Queries to fetch complex data from different tables in databases using joins, database links.
- Involved in designing and developing SQL server objects such as Tables, Views, Indexes (Clustered and Non-Clustered), Stored Procedures and Functions in Transact-SQL.
- Participated in JAD sessions, gathered information from Business Analysts, end users and other stakeholders to determine the requirements.
- Performed Data analysis of existing data base to understand the data flow and business rules applied to Different data bases using SQL.
- Performed data analysis and data profiling using complex SQL on various sources systems and answered complex business questions by providing data to business users.
- Performed the detail data analysis, Identify the key facts and dimensions necessary to support the business requirements.
- Generated Data dictionary reports for publishing on the internal site and giving access to different users.
- Used MS Visio and Rational Rose to represent system under development in a graphical form by defining use case diagrams, activity and workflow diagrams.
- Wrote a complex SQL, PL/SQL, Procedures, Functions, and Packages to validate data and testing process.
- Worked in generating and documenting Metadata while designing OLTP and OLAP systems environment.
- Worked in data management performing data analysis, gap analysis, and data mapping.
- Established a business analysis methodology around the RUP (Rational Unified Process).
- Developed stored procedures in SQL Server to standardize DML transactions such as insert, update and delete from the database.
- Created SSIS package to load data from Flat files, Excel and Access to SQL server using connection manager.
- Develop all the required stored procedures, user defined functions and triggers using T-SQL and SQL.
- Produced report using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and creating various types of reports.
Environment: SQL, SQL server, PL/SQL, MS Visio, Rational Rose, SSIS, T-SQL, SSRS