Archana Lal

* In my current role as a Senior Consultant, I have taken on strategic leadership responsibilities, engaging directly with senior client stakeholders to solve complex data challenges for enterprise clients in the global logistics sector.
* As the lead for a new Data Quality initiative, I am architecting and implementing a new, end-to-end framework from the ground up using SODA and Databricks. My role involves not just the technical solutioning, but also leading the project, managing stakeholder relationships, and driving the overall strategy. The success of our initial pilot has led to discussions about expanding this DQ program across the enterprise.

Skills: Agile Application Development · Team Management · Data Analysis · Data Quality · Consultation · Solution Architecture · Stakeholder Management

* After my promotion, I continued to lead a 15-member development team in India, acting as the bridge between the business and technical teams to deliver new data solutions on Azure.
* I then relocated to the UK to take on a new challenge as the Onsite Support Team Lead. I was the primary client point of contact for a complex landscape of over 15 applications spread across on-premise and Azure.
* I successfully overhauled the support process for a 14-member cross-geography team, improving communication protocols and ticket handling, which led to a reduction in critical production support escalations by over 40%.

Skills: Cloud Data Engineer · Engineering · Business Analysis · Data Engineering · Agile Application Development · Team Management · Data Analysis · Data Quality · Consultation · Solution Architecture · Stakeholder Management · IT Service Management

* This role was a key part of my planned transition into a techno-functional capacity.
* As a Business Analyst, I elicited and documented complex business requirements for new data solutions on the Azure platform.
* As a Data Engineer, I executed a key optimization track, migrating data from Parquet to Delta format and implementing statistics collection to improve query performance in Databricks.

Skills: Database Management System (DBMS) · Analytical Skills · Cloud Data Engineer · Business Analysis · DevOps · Data Engineering · Communication · Data Analysis

* This is where I had the opportunity to make a direct impact on a core business outcome. I was responsible for improving the accuracy of a key shipment prediction system.
* By re-engineering the data model, enhancing the quality of the training data, and fine-tuning the Random Forest algorithm, I was able to increase the model's accuracy from 89% to 96%.
* During this time, I also acted as a Cloud SME for a 20-person team, mentoring them on AWS services and data best practices.

Skills: Python (Programming Language) · Scala · Machine Learning · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Solution Design

* I gained deep, hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure by executing multiple complex, business-critical cloud migration projects, including on-premise to Azure, on-premise to AWS, and a strategic Azure-to-AWS migration, all completed with minimal downtime.
* I also gained valuable exposure to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for provisioning cloud resources.

Skills: Data Engineering · Business Intelligence (BI) · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Batch Processing · Subject Matter Experts

* This was my first deep dive into hands-on data engineering. I designed and developed scalable ETL solutions on AWS, using Glue, EMR, Kinesis, and Lambda to process and load both high-volume batch and real-time streaming data from Kafka sources into Redshift and Elasticsearch.
* I also built real-time monitoring dashboards for streaming data applications using Kibana and Grafana.
* I began my journey in this account as a Production Support Engineer, which gave me a strong foundation in understanding application stability and reliability before I grew into the data engineering role.

Skills: Data Analysis · Training & Prediction ML Algorithm · Big Data Analytics · Data Modeling · Data Warehousing · ETL Pipelines · Streaming Data · Apache Spark