Raja Govindaraj
Senior Data Engineer
Miami,FL
Summary
Senior Data Engineer with 12+ years of experience in designing, optimizing, and managing large-scale ETL pipelines, Snowflake data warehouses, and cloud data solutions (Azure, AWS) to generate meaningful business insights.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications
Work History
Senior Data Engineer | Data Analyst
Verizon
Miami, FL
12.2021 - Current
- Designing and implementing robust data pipelines that handle large volumes of data efficiently for effective decision making
- Identified reasons for customer attrition from transactional data insights and collaborated with business stakeholders to implement retention strategies, resulting in a 10% increase in customer retention
- Optimized ETL jobs and SQL queries, reducing data processing time by 30% and enhancing data accuracy by 20%, resulting in improved business decision-making.
- Creating visual representations of data (e.g., charts, graphs, dashboards) for better understanding of the KPI's to the business stakeholder using tools like ThoughtSpot and Power BI
- Ensured data quality through rigorous testing, validation, and monitoring of all data assets, minimizing inaccuracies and inconsistencies.
- And establishing data governance frameworks to ensure data integrity and compliance
- Led cloud migration from on-premise to Azure Data Factory & Snowflake, achieving a $50,000 annual cost reduction and improving scalability by 40%.
- Designed and implemented a real-time streaming pipeline for transaction data using Databricks and Python
Data Engineer
Mr.Cooper
10.2017 - 12.2021
- Built and optimized ETL pipelines using DataStage and ADF to transform and load data into Snowflake/Azure, enhancing efficiency and data quality.
- Automated ETL workflows using Control-M & Autosys, reducing manual effort by 50% and improving data pipeline efficiency.
- Optimized incremental data loads, CDC (Change Data Capture), and real-time data processing.
ETL Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
12.2012 - 10.2017
- Designed and developed 100+ ETL jobs to extract, transform, and load data from 10+ heterogeneous source systems, building a highly scalable data warehouse using SSIS & DataStage for banking and insurance clients.
- Re-engineered 100+ Windows batch scripts into optimized Unix shell scripts, reducing processing time by 40% and improving system reliability.
- Implemented automated data validation & cleansing techniques, reducing data inconsistencies by 25% and improving overall data accuracy to 99.9%.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
SKCET
Coimbatore, India 08.2008 - 06.2012
Skills
Azure
Datastage/SSIS/Talend
Snowflake
Databricks
Power BI
Thoughtspot
Shell script
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Certification
Infosphere Datastage 11.7
Accomplishments
- Migrated on-premise ETL pipelines to Snowflake & Azure.
- Designed scalable data pipelines in Datastage & ADF.
- Created interactive dashboards in Power BI & ThoughtSpot.
- Established data governance frameworks ensuring 100% compliance with regulatory standards.
- Optimized ETL workflows
- Led migration of data from on-premise SQL Server & Oracle to Snowflake on Azure, improving query performance by 40%.
Timeline
Snowflake SnowPro Certified
02-2025
Senior Data Engineer | Data Analyst
Verizon
12.2021 - Current
Data Engineer
Mr.Cooper
10.2017 - 12.2021
ETL Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
12.2012 - 10.2017
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
SKCET
08.2008 - 06.2012
Infosphere Datastage 11.7
AZ900 - Azure Fundamentals
Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012 - (70-461)
Oracle Database 11g: SQL Fundamentals | (1Z0-051)
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