Shital Argade
Data Engineer
Pune
Summary
Snowflake Data Engineer with 5.5 years of experience in building and optimizing data solutions for large-scale enterprise environments. Specialized in Snowflake cloud data warehousing, ETL pipelines, and data mart development. Proven expertise in performance optimization, cost reduction, and data security. Adept at collaborating with business teams to deliver high-quality, business-ready datasets and actionable insights.
Overview
3
3
Languages
2019
2019
years of post-secondary education
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Data Engineer - Snowflake Specialist
BDigitaU Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
06.2025 - Current
- Project: Fuel Loyalty Rewards Data Platform.
- Designation: Worked as a Snowflake Data Engineer.
- Key Achievement:
- Enabled tracking of millions of fuel transactions with secure, optimized Snowflake pipelines, providing faster insights, and reducing reporting SLA by 40%.
- Roles and Responsibilities:
- Designed and implemented a secure, high-performance Snowflake data platform for fuel loyalty transactions.
- Improved query performance by 45% using clustering keys and materialized views.
- Reduced compute costs by 30% through auto-suspend warehouses and caching strategies.
- Built dynamic tables, stored procedures, streams, and tasks to automate ingestion and transformation of daily customer transactions.
- Applied data quality checks (null handling, duplicate detection, reconciliation) ensuring accuracy of loyalty points.
- Enforced RBAC, masking policies, and row-level security to protect sensitive cardholder details.
- Delivered curated reporting views for analytics teams, enabling a 360° view of customer loyalty behavior.
Senior System Engineer / Technology Analyst
Infosys Pvt. Ltd.
04.2022 - 01.2025
- Project: Paccar Financial Corporation (April 2022 - June 2024)
- Client: Paccar.
- Designation: Worked as a senior systems engineer and technology analyst.
- Key Achievements:
- Delivered a modern Snowflake data platform that reduced manual reporting effort by 50%, improved query performance by 40%, and ensured audit-ready compliance for financial reporting.
- Recognized with the client’s “Insta Rise Award” for outstanding performance, dedication, and on-time delivery of critical solutions for Paccar Finance.
- Roles and Responsibilities:
- Migrated 30+ years of legacy reporting systems into a modern Snowflake-based Data Mart solution on AWS.
- Designed and developed data marts in Snowflake, implementing SQL-based transformations across RAW, STG, and Data Mart layers.
- Worked on logical and physical data models using ERwin Data Modeler.
- Built reporting views and stored procedures to support financial analytics and regulatory reporting.
- Automated data loading, validation, and error handling workflows, integrating Python scripts where required.
- Applied data quality checks, reconciliation, and unit testing to ensure accuracy, consistency, and reliability of datasets.
- Partnered with business stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver governance-compliant, scalable Snowflake solutions.
ETL DEVELOPER
BDigitaU Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
04.2021 - 04.2022
- Project: Healthcare Services Data Collection.
- Designation: ETL Developer.
- Milestone Achievement: Appreciated by client and team for quickly learning new concepts and delivering quality ETL + Snowflake solutions.
- Roles and Responsibilities:
- Built ETL pipelines in Informatica PowerCenter to extract data from Oracle and load into Snowflake.
- Designed a RAW → STG → Target architecture ensuring data quality and lineage.
- Automated data ingestion with Snowpipe and stages; implemented data validations.
- Developed SQL scripts, stored procedures, UDFs, and views for transformation logic.
- Optimized workflows and queries, improving performance and reliability.
- Collaborated with analysts and QA teams to deliver accurate datasets.
Software Trainee Engineer
BDigitaU Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
01.2020 - 03.2021
- Designation: Worked as a software trainee engineer.
- Assisted in data flow development and QA support during the early career phase.
- Maintained detailed documentation of all completed tasks for easy reference during maintenance or future updates as needed by other developers down the line.
- Assisted in the development of client-specific solutions, resulting in increased customer satisfaction levels.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - E&TC
PES Collage of Engineering
Aurangabad, India 08.2016 - 08.2019
Diploma - E&TC Engineering
CSMSS Collage of Polytechnique
Aurangabad, India 01.2013 - 01.2016
SSC - General Education
Baliram Patil Vidyalaya
Aurangabad, India03-2012
Skills
Cloud & Data Warehousing: Snowflake, AWS (S3)
ETL & Automation: Python, Informatica PowerCenter, SQL, Snowpipe, Tasks, Streams
Databases: Oracle 11g, SQL Server
Data Modeling: Dimensional Modeling, Data Marts (RAW → STG → DM),Logical and Physical Data Models Using Erwin Data Modeler
Performance Optimization: Clustering Keys, Query Profiling, Result Caching
Security & Governance: RBAC, Masking Policies, Row-Level Security
Version Control & Tools: Git, Jira, Agile/Scrum
Interests
Playing Cricket, Playing Chess, Reading News Paper
Timeline
Data Engineer - Snowflake Specialist
BDigitaU Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
06.2025 - Current
Senior System Engineer / Technology Analyst
Infosys Pvt. Ltd.
04.2022 - 01.2025
ETL DEVELOPER
BDigitaU Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
04.2021 - 04.2022
Software Trainee Engineer
BDigitaU Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
01.2020 - 03.2021
Bachelor of Engineering - E&TC
PES Collage of Engineering
08.2016 - 08.2019
Diploma - E&TC Engineering
CSMSS Collage of Polytechnique
01.2013 - 01.2016
SSC - General Education
Baliram Patil Vidyalaya
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Marathi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)