Zakaria El Bouziri

Data & Cloud Architect — I help teams deliver performant, traceable, and cost-effective data platforms, from scoping to production.

I am a Data & Cloud architect (12+ years) specializing in banking/insurance and critical environments. I provide end-to-end support: strategy, target architecture, delivery, and skills transfer. My obsession: platforms that meet their SLAs, pass audits, and optimize costs.

What I bring

• Measurable business impact: reduced time-to-data, increased reliability, controlled costs (FinOps by design).

• Robust & modern architectures: Lakehouse/Data Mesh, real-time & batch, integrated governance/quality/lineage.

• Execution excellence: CI/CD data, MLOps, observability, security & compliance (GDPR, BCBS 239), 10-year retention, RTO ≤ 4h, RPO ~ 0h.

• Coaching & upskilling of teams (operations, data engineering, product).

Challenges I solve

• Technical debt and fragile pipelines → standardization, testing, and observability.

• Escalating Cloud costs → performance/cost-oriented design, autoscaling, storage tiers, right-sized jobs.

• Unclear governance → catalog, lineage, access, roles, and clear controls.

• Projects that don't reach production → delivery guided by SLAs and realistic run plans.

Why I stand out

• End-to-end vision (architecture + operations + compliance) and product sense.

• Performance culture (Spark/SQL optimization, partitioned models, caching, pruning) and reliability (SLA/SLO, alerting, SRE mindset).

• Pragmatic Hybrid/Multi-cloud (on-prem Exadata Cloud@Customer ↔ AWS/Azure ↔ Snowflake), integration with existing IT systems.

Stack & playgrounds

AWS/Azure, Snowflake, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Delta/Iceberg, Terraform, Kubernetes, Oracle Exadata, Java/Scala/Python, dbt.

Engagement formats

Flash audit (architecture & costs), target blueprint + roadmap, delivery support, team coaching & best practice implementation.