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Senior BI Engineer
Scotiabank, Canada
16+ years building modern analytics ecosystems across BI, cloud migration, governance, warehousing, and data visualization for banking, healthcare, FMCG, and enterprise platforms.
Rafael has led and delivered work across data architecture, integration, warehousing, BI, governance, cloud migration, and analytics engineering. The throughline is simple: transform complexity into trustworthy, usable information.
Deep experience with data modeling, warehousing, legacy modernization, and enterprise integration.
Power BI, Tableau, SSRS, and analytical storytelling focused on operational and strategic decision-making.
Hands-on delivery across Azure, GCP, AWS, plus migrations from on-premises and legacy ecosystems.
Problem-solving, self-direction, adaptability, technical leadership.
Data quality, governance maturity, master data, policy and process design.
ETL/ELT pipelines, modeling, migrations, warehouse optimization, and integration design.
Bridging technical depth with business-facing dashboards and clear analytical narratives.
Leading technical initiatives in risk management data projects using SQL Server, SSIS, Python, and Power BI.
Built GCP data pipelines from Cloud SQL to BigQuery with Airflow, while contributing to modeling and analytics views.
Delivered governance, quality, MDM foundations, and architected end-to-end data solutions across Snowflake, Tableau, ADF, MySQL, and Power BI.
Led a healthcare data migration team integrating legacy and relational sources into Azure SQL Server with custom T-SQL quality workflows.
Supported large-scale BI, migration, data quality, and high-availability architecture projects for national and international companies.
Managed SQL Server estates and contributed to major data center and AWS IaaS migration efforts for web portal database platforms.
Administered Oracle environments and executed server migrations from legacy Oracle versions to Oracle 10g.
Administered SQL Server platforms and helped drive migration of core business systems to newer database infrastructure.
Built a remote DBA startup model and delivered internal tooling plus Power BI and R reporting for multi-server administration.
Developed technology solutions centered on data automation, analytics delivery, and modern digital execution for business-oriented initiatives.
Created data-centric government portals with statistical visualization capabilities and public-facing analytics experiences.
Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia
2011Available for strategic conversations around data engineering, BI modernization, analytics architecture, cloud data initiatives, and visualization-driven decision support.