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Prashant Rane

Buffalo,USA

Summary

Strategic and results-oriented Data & Solution Architect with 18+ years of expertise in designing and delivering enterprise-scale data engineering, warehousing, and ETL solutions. Deep proficiency in Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle, and complex data transformation across insurance and healthcare sectors.


Over the past 3+ years, led the transition to modern cloud data architectures on Azure and AWS. Hands-on experience architecting and implementing robust, scalable data platforms using Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Databricks, Delta Lake, Python, and PySpark. Defined cloud migrations, enabling CI/CD automation through Azure DevOps, and aligning data strategy with business outcomes.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Solution Architect

Independent Health Association Inc.
10.2016 - Current

Cloud Data Architect / Engineer


  • Contributed to the architecture and development of a Python-based automated data validation framework to streamline data quality checks across cloud pipelines
  • Led multiple proof-of-concept (PoC) initiatives utilizing Azure Data Factory, Synapse Analytics, and Databricks to define the migration strategy from on-premises data warehouses to the Azure cloud ecosystem
  • Designed and implemented Databricks and Synapse notebooks to assess and drive the migration approach for legacy Informatica mappings and on-prem enterprise data warehouse (EDW) workloads
  • Collaborated in cross-functional architectural discussions to define CI/CD practices and establish version control standards using Azure DevOps for data pipeline development and deployment


ETL Solution Architect


  • Designed and implemented end-to-end ETL solutions using Informatica PowerCenter, ensuring data integrity, performance, and scalability
  • Created detailed source-to-target mapping (STM) documents to support development and maintain traceability of business requirements
  • Authored comprehensive application process flow documentation
  • Provided technical leadership and mentorship to ETL developers, working closely with solution architects to deliver high-quality data integration artifacts
  • Participated in requirement elicitation and collaborated with BAs and SMEs to review and finalize mapping specifications
  • Conducted in-depth data scenario analysis and facilitated brainstorming sessions with business analysts and key stakeholders to validate requirements and edge cases
  • Led and participated in code review sessions and Supported QA and UAT testing by providing technical expertise to ensure code quality
  • Delivered walkthrough of data flows and application processes to business users and prod support teams, and prepared Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)


Accomplishments:

  • Extract Process Automation: Designed ETL process automation framework to generate data extracts for Self-Funded line of business. This framework provided standard requirement collection process, and developed steps that reduced 80% of design, development and testing efforts.
  • QA test automation (Python): Designed Pythonic framework to test data extracts for all line of businesses. Which improves the quality of testing, reduced the defects to production and saves at least 50% of Unit testing and QA testing efforts.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electronics Engineering

Pune University
India
08-1998

Skills

  • Cloud Platforms: Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Databricks, Data Lake Gen2, Azure DevOps
  • Languages: Python, PySpark, SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL and Shell Scripting
  • Databases: Oracle, Azure SQL DB, SQL Server
  • Data Modeling: Star/Snowflake Schema, Dimensional Modeling, Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCD)
  • Version Control / DevOps : Git, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines
  • ETL Tools: Informatica PowerCenter, Informatica Cloud and Tidal job scheduler
  • Other Tools: Power BI (basics), Databricks (basics), JSON, Parquet, csv

Certification

  • AWS Data Analytics Specialty (DAS-C01)
  • AWS Solution architect associate (SAA-C03)
  • Project Management Professions (PMP)

Timeline

Lead Solution Architect

Independent Health Association Inc.
10.2016 - Current

Bachelor of Science - Electronics Engineering

Pune University