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Mobeen Butt

Data Architect | Principal Data Engineer | Big Data Engineer

Buffalo,NY

Summary

Strategic Data Architect with 9+ years of experience designing and scaling cloud-native platforms, big data ecosystems, and real-time streaming systems. Expert in multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Kafka/Spark/Flink, and modern data stacks (Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, Delta Lake). Skilled in healthcare data standards (FHIR, HL7, HIPAA, GDPR), enabling secure, compliant solutions that power AI/ML and enterprise analytics. Adept at leading teams, modernizing legacy systems, and aligning data strategies with business goals, delivering cost savings, performance gains, and mission-critical insights.

Overview

years of professional experience

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Work History

Data Architect

ApTask

12.2023 - Current

Designed and deployed a cloud-native healthcare data lakehouse on Snowflake + GCP, centralizing clinical, claims, and payer data for 30+ enterprise stakeholders.
Integrated HL7/FHIR datasets using NiFi and MuleSoft, ensuring interoperability across EPIC, Cerner, and payer systems.
Built real-time ingestion frameworks (Kafka, Flink, Dataflow) reducing alert latency from minutes to
Established enterprise-wide data governance with OpenMetadata, dbt tests, and Great Expectations, improving trust and compliance.
Partnered with analytics teams to develop semantic data models, enabling unified metrics and self-service BI.
Reduced data platform costs by 35% through tiered storage, autoscaling compute, and partitioning strategies.
Led architecture reviews and mentored junior engineers to enforce best practices in streaming, governance, and compliance.

Principal Data Engineer

Petra Power

01.2021 - 11.2023

Spearheaded multi-cloud migration (AWS + Azure), reducing operating costs by $1M annually through optimization and consolidation.
Architected AI-ready pipelines with Delta Lake, MLflow, and Feature Stores for real-time predictive scoring.
Directed and mentored a team of 8 engineers; introduced CI/CD with Terraform + GitHub Actions, cutting deployment time by 80%.
Delivered real-time streaming solutions with Kafka + Flink, powering fraud detection and real-time decision-making.
Created observability dashboards (Grafana, Monte Carlo), improving system reliability and achieving 99.9% SLA compliance.
Standardized data contracts & lineage tracking, enabling cross-functional collaboration between product and engineering.
Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, achieving consistent zero-downtime releases.

Senior Data Engineer – Team Lead

Flatiron Health

01.2018 - 12.2020

Engineered HIPAA-compliant pipelines processing 10M+ healthcare records/day across AWS and GCP.
Designed CDC pipelines (Debezium + Kafka) for near real-time synchronization, cutting ETL lag from hours to seconds.
Built self-service BI with Looker & Power BI, reducing manual reporting workload by 70%.
Enforced security with IAM roles, encryption, and dynamic policy controls, ensuring HIPAA & GDPR compliance.
Modernized data pipelines with Databricks Feature Store for real-time ML workflows.
Led a team of 5 engineers, improving delivery efficiency by 40% through agile best practices.
Automated compliance reporting and audit trails with Unity Catalog, improving regulatory readiness.

Data Engineer

ProCogia

09.2015 - 12.2017

Built ETL pipelines with Airflow, Informatica, and Talend, supporting healthcare and retail data workloads.
Designed dimensional models (Kimball) and dashboards in Tableau & Power BI, enabling executive-level decision-making.
Strengthened governance with automated lineage + validation scripts in dbt and Python, cutting defects by 30%.
Optimized SQL & Spark queries, reducing pipeline latency by 50% across large datasets.
Delivered A/B testing and predictive models for revenue and user behavior analytics.
Developed self-service dashboards embedding KPIs across multiple business units.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align analytics with business goals.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Skills

Cloud Platforms & Data Services: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, Redshift, Kinesis, Glue), Azure (Synapse, Data Factory, Databricks, AKS), GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI), Snowflake, Palantir Foundry, Multi-Cloud Deployments, Cost Optimization

Data Engineering & Orchestration: ETL/ELT (PySpark, dbt, Airflow, Talend, Dagster, NiFi), Change Data Capture (CDC), Event-Driven Design, Data Mesh & Data Fabric, Real-Time Pipelines

Data Warehousing & Storage: Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Azure Synapse, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, Hudi, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, MongoDB, Cassandra

Programming & Scripting: Python, SQL (T-SQL/PL-SQL), Scala, Java, Bash, YAML/JSON, REST, gRPC

Streaming & Real-Time Processing: Apache Kafka (Streams, KSQL), Apache Flink, Apache Beam, AWS Kinesis, GCP Pub/Sub, Redpanda, Materialize

Machine Learning & AI Data Engineering: MLOps, MLflow, Feature Stores (Databricks), Real-Time Scoring Pipelines, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Vector Databases (Pinecone, FAISS), AWS SageMaker, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Vertex AI

Data Modeling & Architecture: Dimensional Modeling (Kimball), Star/Snowflake Schema, Data Vault, Common Data Model (CDM), Schema Evolution, Partitioning, High-Volume Data Processing, Fault Tolerant Design

Governance, Security & Compliance: HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2, CCPA, PII/PHI Handling, OpenMetadata, Collibra, Alation, Unity Catalog, Metadata Management, Data Lineage, Great Expectations, dbt Tests, RBAC, RLS, Encryption, HashiCorp Vault, IAM

Observability & Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Monte Carlo, ELK Stack, Anomaly Detection, Operational Metrics, SIEM Tools

BI & Analytics: Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Apache Superset, Metabase, Semantic Modeling, Self-Service BI Enablement

DevOps & Infrastructure Automation: CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps), Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, GKE), Helm, ArgoCD, GitOps, Cloud Run, Microservices

Leadership & Collaboration: Agile/Scrum, Cross-Functional Leadership, Stakeholder Engagement, Strategic Planning, Architecture Reviews, Mentorship, Data Contracts, JIRA, Confluence

Healthcare Data Expertise: HL7, FHIR, EHR/EMR Data, RxNorm, NCPDP, Specialty Pharmacy Data, ICD-10, CPT Codes, 340B Program, SaaS Integrations