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Rinku Shah

San Jose,CA

Summary

Senior Analytics Engineer with 15+ years of experience building finance-grade analytics and data platforms supporting IR, FP&A, Internal Audit, and Executive KPI reporting. Strong background across analytics engineering, data infrastructure, and database administration, with deep expertise in financial data modeling (star & snowflake schemas), gross margin and unit economics, ICFR-compliant reconciliation, and cloud data warehousing (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift). Proven ability to partner with Finance, Audit, Product, and Infrastructure teams to deliver trusted, auditable, decision-ready analytics at scale.

Work History

Senior Analytics Engineer – Finance

SMBC / Thermo Fisher / Amazon / Enterprise Finance Platforms
San Jose, CA
  • Owned end-to-end KPI integrity for executive, audit, and investor-facing reporting.
  • Designed certified KPI layers with approval workflows for public and executive communications.
  • Partnered with IR, FP&A, and Internal Audit to validate financial and operational KPIs.
  • Designed ICFR-compliant data flows with immutable raw data, versioned transformations, and reconciliation checkpoints.
  • Supported SOX / ITGC audits by providing traceability from source systems to fact tables and dashboards.
  • Automated reconciliation across Data Lake, Financial Data Warehouse, Analytics Marts, and ERP / ARCS.
  • Designed finance-grade star and snowflake schemas for revenue, cost, gross margin, and unit economics.
  • Built canonical fact tables at trade / usage / event grain with conformed dimensions.
  • Implemented SCD Type-2 dimensions to preserve historical accuracy.
  • Built and optimized analytics platforms on BigQuery, Snowflake, and Redshift, balancing performance and cost.
  • Tuned queries using partitioning, clustering, indexing, and workload isolation techniques.
  • Managed database operations including performance monitoring, access control, and incident resolution.
  • Orchestrated ingestion, transformation, reconciliation, and publishing workflows using Airflow.
  • Designed tiered refresh strategies to balance cost, data freshness, and finance certification.
  • Built secure APIs using OAuth 2.0, service accounts, and RBAC for ingesting financial and operational data.
  • Implemented schema validation, deduplication, idempotency, and error handling.
  • Mentored junior engineers on SQL, data modeling, and analytics engineering best practices.
  • Acted as analytics representative in executive, audit, and cross-functional discussions.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree - Information Systems, Finance, Engineering

Skills

  • Financial Data Modeling
  • Gross Margin & Unit Economics Analytics
  • KPI Governance & Data Integrity
  • ICFR / ITGC Controls & Audit Support
  • Dbt
  • Data Catalogs
  • Data Quality Controls
  • Advanced SQL
  • API-based Data Ingestion
  • Airflow
  • Event-Driven Pipelines
  • Cloud Data Warehousing
  • BigQuery
  • Snowflake
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Data Infrastructure
  • Azure Data Lake
  • AWS S3
  • HDFS
  • Orchestration & Scheduling
  • Enterprise Schedulers
  • Database Administration
  • Oracle
  • Redshift
  • Performance Tuning
  • Query optimization
  • Partitioning
  • Clustering
  • Indexing
  • Security & Access Control
  • RBAC
  • Service accounts
  • Encryption
  • Audit logging
  • Reliability & Operations
  • Backups
  • Recovery
  • Monitoring
  • SLA management
  • Cost Optimization
  • Compute right-sizing
  • Incremental processing
  • Workload isolation

Infrastructure And Database Engineering Skills

  • Cloud Data Warehousing: BigQuery, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift
  • Data Infrastructure: Azure Data Lake, AWS S3, HDFS
  • Orchestration & Scheduling: Airflow, Enterprise Schedulers
  • Database Administration: Oracle, Redshift, Snowflake
  • Performance Tuning: Query optimization, partitioning, clustering, indexing
  • Security & Access Control: RBAC, service accounts, encryption, audit logging
  • Reliability & Operations: Backups, recovery, monitoring, SLA management
  • Cost Optimization: Compute right-sizing, incremental processing, workload isolation

Experience

15+ years

Personal Information

Title: Senior Analytics Engineer – Finance & Data Platforms

Timeline

Senior Analytics Engineer – Finance

SMBC / Thermo Fisher / Amazon / Enterprise Finance Platforms

Bachelor’s Degree - Information Systems, Finance, Engineering

Rinku Shah