Shenif Lalji
Verified Expert in Engineering
Solution Architect and Developer
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Toptal member since March 25, 2022
Shenif is a solution architect with over 15 years of experience in business intelligence, data warehouse, and ETL architecture with BI/DW technologies expertise. He's been part of designing multidimensional data structures for warehouses, ETL processes, and managing online analytical processing (OLAP) and BI reporting systems. He has experience interacting with customers, identifying business requirements, data modeling, metadata management, data quality initiatives, and archiving strategies.
Portfolio
Experience
- Data Management - 20 years
- SQL Server BI - 20 years
- Database Administration (DBA) - 20 years
- Communication - 20 years
- SQL Server DBA - 10 years
- Accessibility - 10 years
- Solution Architecture - 10 years
- Domain Modeling - 8 years
Preferred Environment
Windows, Unix, SQL Server BI, SQL Server DBA, Oracle, Azure, Python, JavaScript
The most amazing...
...project I've led as an IT architect is modernizing the reporting environments for the analytic community.
Work Experience
Solution Architect
Alberta Health Services
- Built a high availability environment for COVID-19 reporting as a scrum master. I was also the domain architect for health information exchange on clinical services and analytics and the lead architect for Connect Care's analytics.
- Drafted and completed a strategic roadmap to drive alignment between technology and business objectives.
- Provided technical leadership in database administration, application analysts, server support, desktop, and network personnel. Facilitated enterprise communication on technical capabilities across multiple healthcare zones and regions.
- Leveraged Hadoop, a key component of data strategy, as the architect for enterprise archiving solutions.
Senior Data Architect and Solution Architect
Alberta Health
- Provided data architecture direction and delivered required architectural artifacts using ERwin and ERwin Web Portal.
- Contributed to the development of the overall architecture of the DataHub platform.
- Ensured that data solutions exhibited high-performance levels, consistency, security, scalability, redundancy, maintainability, appropriate reusability, and reliability.
Senior Data Architect and BI Architect
ATB Financial
- Acted as the lead architect and completed the solution design document for the data quality solution.
- Implemented an archive solution that reduced the digital footprint by 40%.
- Organized weekly team status meetings to manage strategic objectives.
Senior Data Architect and BI Architect
ATCO
- Acred as the lead for creating and growing the BI visionary strategy for data integration.
- Led the integration of Informatica ETL processes and data modeling.
- Managed client engagement and encouraged new BI initiatives.
Experience
Clinical Information System, Adoption, and Agile Development
Managed multiple data initiatives, including master data and data quality initiatives. Acted as the platform architect for service availability, service level agreement, data access, and integration.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Management Information Systems
University of Calgary - Calgary, Alberta,Canada
Certifications
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate
Microsoft
Database Administration Diploma
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
Skills
Tools
SQL Server BI, Oracle RAC, Informatica ETL
Platforms
Azure, Windows, Unix, Oracle, SAP HANA
Languages
Python 3, Python, JavaScript
Storage
SQL Server DBA, Database Administration (DBA), IBM Db2
Other
Solution Architecture, Accessibility, Domain Modeling, Back-end, Leadership, Communication, Data Management, Roadmaps, erwin Data Modeler, Oracle BI
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