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Cardholder and Merchant Feature Store Generation

Develop & implement the following use cases in

Databricks analytical data lake environment.
• Cardholder and Merchant Feature Store Generation
 Objective: Create a feature store that generates
insights for cardholders and merchants to enable
financial institutions to optimize customer spend.
 Implementation Steps:
 o Data Collection: Collect transactional data
related to credit/debit cards, merchants, and
customers. This might include data from
financial systems, historical spend data, and
transactional behavior.
o Feature Engineering: Create features that can
be used by machine learning models. These
could include historical spend patterns,
average spend frequency, merchant category
preferences, credit score features, etc.
o Feature Store: Store the processed features in
Databricks Feature Store, which provides easy
access to feature data during model training
and serving.
o Model Training: Use Databricks notebooks to
train different types of models (binary
classification, multi-label classification,
regression) on the generated features. You can
employ MLlib or third-party libraries like
TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, etc.

Key Data Source Systems:

1. Cardholder Transaction Data (e.g., Bank's Core Banking
System):
o Source: A core banking or card transaction system where
each cardholder's transaction details (e.g., card usage,
 transaction amounts, merchant details, timestamps) are
stored.
o Example: Visa/Mastercard transaction records, debit/credit
card transaction logs.
o Type: Relational databases (RDBMS) or cloud-based storage
solutions like SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle DB, etc.
o Data Format: Raw transaction logs (CSV, JSON, XML, or
custom formats).
2. Merchant Data (e.g., Merchant Point of Sale System):
o Source: Point of Sale (POS) systems, merchant
management systems, or external merchant data providers.
o Example: Merchant information, including merchant ID,
location, type of business, transaction volumes, etc.
o Type: These can be stored in relational databases, or
integrated with merchant management platforms.
o Data Format: CSV, JSON, XML, or structured database
entries.
3. External Data Providers:
o Source: For enrichment, additional sources like customer
behavior data, geographic data, or transaction metadata
may come from external sources (e.g., third-party APIs).
o Example: Enrichment from consumer behavior platforms,
demographic data from marketing tools, etc.
o Type: External APIs, flat files, third-party databases.
o Data Format: JSON, XML, CSV.
4. Other Data Sources:
o Source: CRM, marketing systems, customer feedback, etc.
o Example: Data on customer profiles, marketing
segmentation, loyalty programs, or CRM systems.
o Type: Data from customer-facing systems or other
marketing platforms.
o Data Format: JSON, CSV, etc.
Data Ingestion (E): HTTPs Interface
The data ingestion phase involves moving data from various
sources to AWS S3. Here's how it works in your described
architecture:
 File Uploader API (Spring Boot on EC2):
o Overview: The application is designed to receive data
through a RESTful API endpoint. It supports multi-part
uploads for large files.
o EC2 and Auto Scaling: The Spring Boot application is
hosted on EC2 instances with auto-scaling to handle
varying loads.
o ELB for Load Balancing: An Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
is placed in front of the EC2 instances to distribute
incoming traffic efficiently.
o Implementation: The Spring Boot application can
leverage the AWS SDK to upload data files to an S3
bucket. The uploaded data is stored temporarily in EBS
 volumes before being moved to S3.
 Data Movement to S3 (Staging Bucket):
o Process: When the data is uploaded, it’s first stored
temporarily on EBS volumes. Then, using the AWS SDK,
the data is moved to an S3 staging bucket.
o S3 Event: Once the data is stored in the staging S3
bucket, an S3 event is triggered. This event invokes a
Lambda function that starts the ETL workflow.
2. 5. PySpark for Data Processing and Analytics:
Once the data is successfully stored in the Data Lake (S3),
PySpark on Databricks can be used to perform more
advanced data processing and analytics.
 Databricks for Transformation: You can use PySpark within
Databricks to load the Parquet data from S3, apply further
transformations (e.g., aggregations, data enrichment), and
perform data analytics.
 Automated Jobs on Databricks: The entire ETL pipeline can
be automated using Databricks Jobs, where the PySpark
scripts are triggered based on the successful completion of
earlier stages (e.g., when new Parquet files land in the data
lake).

3. Data Loading (L): Moving Data to Redshift

After the data is processed and stored in the data lake, it
needs to be moved to Redshift for further analytics.
 Loading Data from S3 to Redshift:
o After the transformation is complete, the Step Function
triggers a Glue job that performs the SQL COPY
command to load the transformed data from the S3
data lake to Amazon Redshift. This can be done using
the COPY command from Redshift, which is highly
efficient for large data loads.
 Lambda for Status Updates: Once the data is successfully
loaded into Redshift, a Lambda function updates the status
of the ETL workflow in DynamoDB to ensure that the process
is complete.
4. Error Handling and Service Integration (S): Monitoring and
Error Handling
Error handling is critical for any production-grade pipeline to
ensure reliability and traceability.
 Generic Error Handling Lambda:
o If any step in the pipeline fails (whether it’s the file
upload, the data transformation, or the Redshift load),
a generic Lambda function is invoked to capture the
error details.
o This Lambda function writes the error details to a
DynamoDB audit table, which serves as a log for
tracking issues.
 Triggering Alerts: Based on the changes in the DynamoDB
 audit table, a trigger invokes another Lambda function. This
function can:
o Send email notifications to administrators.
o Create service tickets via an on-premise API or send
alerts via an SNS topic to notify stakeholders of any
failures or warnings.
o

2. Objective: Detect fraudulent activities in real-time or batch

processes.
 Use of PySpark:
 Data Ingestion: PySpark can be used to ingest transactional data
from multiple sources like databases (e.g., SQL databases, NoSQL
databases), logs, or streams (e.g., Kafka).
 Feature Engineering: It helps with feature engineering by
aggregating transaction data and calculating features like
transaction frequency, velocity, or geographical anomalies.
 Real-time Analytics: PySpark, integrated with streaming services
(like Kafka), can process transactions in real-time, applying machine
learning models to flag suspicious activity instantly.

I started my carrer with hsbc bank

1. bjective: Ensure that all transactions are processed correctly and
reconcile differences between multiple systems (e.g., core banking
system vs. payment gateways).
 Use of PySpark:
 Batch Processing: PySpark can process batches of transaction
data from multiple sources, checking for discrepancies and ensuring
data integrity (e.g., cross-referencing debit and credit records).
 Time-Series Analysis: By using window functions, PySpark can
detect anomalies in transaction patterns over time (e.g., spikes in
transaction volume or value).

2, Data Pipeline Optimization and Automation
 Objective: Automate the data processing pipeline, reduce
processing time, and improve operational efficiency.
 Use of PySpark:
o ETL Pipelines: PySpark is widely used in building automated
ETL pipelines, where raw data is ingested, cleaned,
transformed, and loaded into data warehouses (e.g., Redshift,
Snowflake) or data lakes (S3).
o Scheduling and Monitoring: PySpark, when combined with
orchestration tools like Apache Airflow or Databricks Jobs, can
automate the execution of data pipelines, monitor for failures,
and restart jobs as needed.