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Hiren Shah

Data & Cloud Engineer at AMPLINNO

London, United KingdomLinkedIn

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Role

Role Name

Senior Data Engineer

Company

Northstar Lending

Location(s)

London, Shoreditch

Work Mode

hybrid

Employment Type

full-time

Pay

£85,000 to £100,000 per year

Key Requirements

Skills

PythonAdvanced SQLdbtAirflowAWSData pipeline orchestrationData modeling

Tools

PythonSQLKafkaSnowflakedbtAirflowTerraformAWS

Candidate

Summary

Data & cloud engineering leader with ~13 years' experience building Databricks/Spark lakehouse platforms, Azure-native data architectures, governance (Unity Catalog / Purview) and IaC/CI-CD automation for financial services and insurance.

Work History

  • Data & Cloud Engineer at AMPLINNO INDIA PVT. LTD.

    Feb 2022 to present

    Lead data & cloud engineering: Databricks/Spark pipelines, Delta Lake lakehouse design, Azure data platform (Data Lake, Synapse), Unity Catalog governance, CI/CD with Terraform/Docker/Kubernetes; mentored engineering teams and drove platform migrations.

  • Principal Cloud Engineer at Nippon Life India Asset Management (Singapore) Pte. Ltd

    Jul 2020 to Feb 2022

    Architected cloud-native data platforms for asset management: Databricks/Spark, Delta Lake, Synapse; led CI/CD, governance (Unity Catalog, Microsoft Purview) and AI/ML enablement for fund analytics.

  • Vice President - Technology (Data Engineering) at Reliance General Insurance

    Sept 2015 to Jul 2020

    Led data engineering and platform initiatives for insurance operations, delivered enterprise data solutions and analytics pipelines.

  • AVP - Technology & Innovation at ICICI Lombard

    Jan 2013 to Sept 2015

    Delivered enterprise mobile and infrastructure solutions; managed operations, monitoring and large-scale application support.

Education

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Match Information

Match factors

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Matched(5)

  • Location
    Role: London, Shoreditch · Candidate: London, United Kingdom (same area)
  • Work mode
    Role: hybrid · Candidate accepts: remote, hybrid, on-site
  • Python
    Role needs Python; candidate lists Python in standardised skills.
  • SQLNice to have
    Role needs SQL as a tool; candidate lists SQL in skills and career spans data platforms.
  • TerraformNice to have
    Role needs Terraform; candidate lists Terraform in skills and tools.

Gaps(0)

No proven gaps

For your judgment(14)

  • Seniority
    Role: senior · Candidate: head
  • Employment type
    Role: full-time · Candidate: not stated
  • Pay
    Role: £85,000–£100,000 · Candidate: pay expectation not stated
  • Advanced SQL
    Role needs advanced SQL; candidate lists SQL as a skill but shows no depth.
  • dbt
    Role needs dbt; dbt never appears in candidate profile, though data engineering career is in scope.

Reasoning

Why it fits

  • Candidate has strong experience with Databricks, Spark, and Azure data platforms relevant to data engineering.
  • Extensive background in designing and building data pipelines and lakehouse architectures aligns well with job tasks.
  • Candidate has leadership experience mentoring engineering teams, matching the seniority and mentoring requirements.
  • Experience in financial services and technology sectors supports domain relevance.
  • Candidate is located in London and open to hybrid work modes, matching job location and work mode.

Watch-outs

  • Job requires specific experience with AWS, dbt, Airflow, and Snowflake which candidate has less direct evidence of.
  • Job emphasizes batch and streaming pipelines with Kafka and data quality tools not strongly evidenced in candidate profile.
  • Job is a senior role but candidate's current role is head level, which may be slightly above the job's seniority level.
  • Job requires hybrid work with 2 days in Shoreditch; candidate's practical fit is moderate due to unspecified willingness for exact hybrid schedule and commute specifics.

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Hiren ShahData & Cloud Engineer at AMPLINNO
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