Hemanth Kumar

Senior Data Engineer @Fifth Third Bank

Irving, TX, US

High reliability and adherence to internal SLAs were ensured by designing end-to-end data intake pipelines in Azure Databricks to process daily loan, credit, and customer data from core banking systems.• Implemented incremental load strategies and Delta Lake merges to capture only new or changed records, minimizing data duplication and improving processing efficiency by 35%.• Designed data validation and reconciliation frameworks to ensure accuracy in sensitive financial datasets used for credit risk scoring, capital adequacy, and regulatory submissions.• Partnered with business analysts and compliance teams to translate banking domain rules (like Basel and BCBS 239) into automated data quality and transformation logic.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to implement Python- and PySpark-based transformations, optimizing performance across diverse data sources and large-scale datasets.• Integrated Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for Databricks notebooks, streamlining code promotion between development and production environments while ensuring version control.