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Sunil George

Sunil George

ETL Architect And Program Manager
Kochi,Kerala

Summary

A qualified and Microsoft Certified IT professional having rich and insight experience of over 18+ years with 12+ years in Data Analytics domain, 4+ years in Azure Data engineering stacks like Azure Data Factory & Azure Synapse(SQL DW), 1+ year in Azure Data bricks, 4+ Years Azure Cloud Services, and 6+ years in Pentaho Data Integration & GreenPlum projects implementation and maintenance. Proven qualifications in data modelling, analyzing requirements, planning, designing and implementing innovative data warehousing solutions that meet or exceed challenging business needs. Designed, Developed and Implemented Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics based Data Engineering solutions.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
2
2
Languages

Work History

Migrating Analytical Platform to Azure Cloud

Cognizant
Kochi, Kerala
01.2018 - Current
  • Playing the ETL Architect and Program manager role in this program to migrate the On Prem Analytical Platform to Azure Cloud.
  • As part of this migration program we are migrating 40+ analytical dashboards built in Pentaho/Greenplum technologies to ADF/Azure Synapse/PowerBI stack in Azure Cloud.
  • Have deep understanding in Azure Data Engineering tools like Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics.
  • Also have exposure to Azure Data bricks, Azure SQL server, Azure Data lake and Azure Key vault Services.
  • Developed and implemented performance improvement strategies in ADF and plans to promote continuous improvement.
  • Exceeded goals through effective task prioritization and great work ethic.
  • Improved operations by introducing reusable frameworks that helped in reducing the development efforts.
  • Resolved conflicts and negotiated mutually beneficial agreements between parties.
  • Mentored and trained our team members in Azure Data engineering tools.
  • Implemented Best practices in ADF as well in Azure Synapse layers.

Meta Data Based Ingestion Framework

Cognizant
Kochi, Kerala
01.2017 - 12.2017
  • Played ETL Architect role in building an ETL framework which automatically created dynamic ETL mappings based on the business rules provided.
  • Business rules were written in Collibra tool which was read by the ETL tool Pentaho Data Integrator to generate the dynamic code using its Meta data Ingestion capabilities.
  • Framework supported 1 to 1 table load(Incremental/truncate load) and additionally it supported transformations like Concatenate, CASE, Trim, Lower/Upper, Sub Queries, Aggregate Functions etc.
  • New tables can be on boarded with zero development effort

ETL Code Migration From Informatica to Pentaho

Cognizant
Kochi, Ke
06.2016 - 12.2016
  • Learned and Reverse Engineered the code written in Informatica PC
  • Re wrote the entire ETL code into an extensible Frame work based code using Pentaho Data Integration.
  • ELT server environment was setup in AWS cloud with MYSQL DB as backend.
  • Customer who belonged to Travel and Hospitality Domain was owning the backend database which holds the Hotel room availability details across the world. Using Pentaho ETL we had read data from variety of sources like REST API's, Databases, different file formats like CSV, JSON, XML etc
  • We created the framework in such a way that we can easily on board a new hotel feed details with very minimal efforts.

On Prem Analytical Platform Setup

Cognizant
Kochi, Kerala
03.2011 - 05.2016
  • Playing an Lead role in setting up Pentaho BI environment in an On Perm environment.
  • The major aim of the project was to create a consolidated one Analytical Platform for all sort of reporting needs within an organization.
  • Migrated more than 40+ application to Pentaho/Greenplum stack from various reporting platforms.
  • Created Reusable frameworks for ETL(Config table based 1 to 1 Stage table load) and Reporting Layers(Customized Dashboarding framework which supported rich visualization using Fusion charts).

Web Developer in E-Commerce Domain

UVJ Technologies
Kochi, Kerala
01.2004 - 03.2011
  • Started career as a web developer working in LAMP(Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) technologies specialized in E-Commerce based solutions.
  • Worked on E-Commerce as a Platform based solutions where customers can come, subscribe and quickly launch their Web store in a days time.
  • Worked for various customers from US, Netherlands and UK
  • Worked from Lancaster(UK) for 6 Months(April - September 2006) where my primary role was to get the technical KT from Onsite and come back to lead the offshore team.
  • Moved to Analytics domain while I was part of E-Commerce as a Platform team, where as part of a solution offerings we on boarded an Analytics module for Store owners to improve their sales.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electronics

College of Applied Science
Puthupally, Kottayam
07.1996 - 07.1999

Master of Science - Computer Science

MES College of Engineering
Kuttipuram, Malappuram
06.2000 - 10.2003

Skills

    Azure Data Factory

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Certification

DP 900: Azure Data Fundamentals

Interests

Marathon Running, Long distance Cycling

Work Availability

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Timeline

DP 203: Azure Data Engineer Associate

12-2021

DP 900: Azure Data Fundamentals

01-2021

Migrating Analytical Platform to Azure Cloud

Cognizant
01.2018 - Current

Meta Data Based Ingestion Framework

Cognizant
01.2017 - 12.2017

ETL Code Migration From Informatica to Pentaho

Cognizant
06.2016 - 12.2016

On Prem Analytical Platform Setup

Cognizant
03.2011 - 05.2016

Web Developer in E-Commerce Domain

UVJ Technologies
01.2004 - 03.2011

Master of Science - Computer Science

MES College of Engineering
06.2000 - 10.2003

Bachelor of Science - Electronics

College of Applied Science
07.1996 - 07.1999
Sunil GeorgeETL Architect And Program Manager