Kingsley Ezenma
SENIOR DATA ENGINEER | AZURE DATA ENGINEER
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Senior Azure Data Engineer with 6+ years of data engineering experience and a broader background in cloud and database administration. Experienced in building enterprise Azure lakehouse, ETL/ELT, and streaming solutions using Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, ADLS Gen2, PySpark, Spark SQL, Kafka, Delta Lake, SQL, and Azure DevOps. Strong experience with SCD Type 2, dimensional modeling, data quality, reconciliation, performance optimization, production support, and cloud migration.
Experience
Senior Data Engineer - NiSource - Remote
(2024-08)
- Designed and developed enterprise-scale Azure data engineering solutions supporting high-volume utility and operational datasets across SAP, Workday, AMI/MDMS, CIS, DB2, and other enterprise systems.
- Built and maintained batch and streaming ETL/ELT pipelines using Azure Databricks, PySpark, Spark SQL, Azure Data Factory, Apache Kafka, Delta Lake, and ADLS Gen2.
- Implemented SCD Type 2, dimensional models, incremental processing, reconciliation, validation, and production monitoring across lakehouse layers.
- Optimized Databricks workloads and partnered with platform teams to diagnose and resolve production data and pipeline issues.
Azure Data Engineer - Oracle - Remote
(2020-08 - 2024-08)
- Designed and developed cloud-based data engineering solutions using Azure Databricks, PySpark, SQL, Azure Synapse, ADLS Gen2, and Delta Lake.
- Developed scalable ETL/ELT pipelines with Azure Data Factory, PySpark, and Spark SQL for enterprise data integration and analytics.
- Implemented Azure AD, RBAC, Key Vault, ARM Templates, Azure DevOps, and cloud migration practices supporting secure Azure environments.
- Performed data validation, troubleshooting, and performance optimization across cloud data workloads.
Cloud Administrator - HCL Technologies
(2020-09 - 2021-07)
- Supported enterprise Azure cloud infrastructure, applications, databases, and data services in production and non-production environments.
- Supported Azure VMs, networking, storage, monitoring, and automation while troubleshooting infrastructure, connectivity, access, and performance issues.
Database Administrator - The Carlstar Group - United States
(2017-02 - 2019-08)
- Administered enterprise SQL Server environments, including performance tuning, indexing, query optimization, backup, recovery, and database maintenance.
- Monitored database performance and resolved production issues to improve reliability and availability.
SQL Server Database Administrator - Seamfix Ltd - On-site
(2010-08 - 2014-08)
- Supported enterprise SQL Server databases by monitoring performance and resolving production issues.
- Developed stored procedures, views, indexing strategies, maintenance jobs, backup processes, and database monitoring.
Education
Associate of Science - Computer & Information Science - ECPI University
Bachelor of Science - Statistics - Nnamdi Azikiwe University