Delivery Lead - AI Engineer
About this role
Job Description: Delivery Lead – AI Engineer
Experience: 12+ years
Role Summary
We are looking for an experienced Delivery Lead – AI Engineer with strong expertise in AI-led solution delivery, data engineering, cloud platforms, and enterprise-scale technology programs. The ideal candidate should have proven experience in Banking, Capital Markets, or Financial Services and the ability to lead AI engagements, manage client stakeholders, drive delivery governance, and ensure successful execution of complex technology initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of AI, data engineering, and cloud-based transformation engagements.
- Drive client engagement by understanding business priorities, managing expectations, presenting solutions, and ensuring timely resolution of risks and issues.
- Provide technical and delivery leadership across AI/ML, GenAI, data platforms, cloud, and enterprise architecture initiatives.
- Own delivery planning, execution tracking, governance, quality, and stakeholder reporting for complex programs.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, product owners, engineering teams, and leadership to define solution roadmaps and execution plans.
- Guide teams in designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective AI and data solutions aligned with enterprise standards.
- Mentor, manage, and develop engineering teams to ensure delivery excellence and continuous capability improvement.
- Promote best practices across AI engineering, data engineering, DevOps, automation, performance optimization, and compliance.
Required Skills
- 12+ years of overall experience in AI engineering, data engineering, cloud technologies, data platforms, or enterprise technology delivery.
- Strong experience leading AI engagements, client-facing delivery programs, and cross-functional engineering teams.
- Hands-on understanding of AI/ML concepts, GenAI solutions, automation use cases, model integration, and AI-enabled engineering practices.
- Strong knowledge of modern data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, and Lakehouse architectures.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong understanding of Python, SQL, Spark, PySpark, ETL/ELT pipelines, orchestration, and large-scale data processing.
- Experience in delivery governance, risk management, stakeholder reporting, estimation, planning, and quality assurance.
- Excellent communication, leadership, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and client engagement skills.
Domain Experience
Must have strong experience in Banking, Capital Markets, or Financial Services, with exposure to regulatory, risk, compliance, data governance, and enterprise technology environments.
Preferred Skills
- Experience delivering AI, GenAI, or intelligent automation solutions in enterprise environments.
- Exposure to data governance, metadata management, data cataloging, security controls, and compliance frameworks.
- Experience supporting solution reviews, technical assessments, hiring, and capability-building initiatives.
- Ability to translate business problems into practical AI and data-driven solutions.
Key Attributes
- Strong delivery ownership with a client-first mindset.
- Ability to lead complex AI and data programs with clarity, accountability, and execution discipline.
- Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
- Strategic thinker with a hands-on technical approach.
- Ability to build high-performing teams and drive continuous improvement.
EXL is the indispensable partner for leading businesses in data-led industries such as insurance, banking and financial services, healthcare, retail and logistics. We bring a unique combination of data, advanced analytics, digital technology and industry expertise to help our clients turn data into insights, streamline operations, improve customer experience, and transform their business. Our partnerships with clients are built on a foundation of collaboration – and we’ve been chosen as a partner by nine of the top ten leading US insurance companies, nine of the top 20 global banks, and six of the top ten US health care payers. We function as one team to make your goals our goals, whether that’s unlocking the value of generative AI or embedding analytics into workflows that reduce risk or power your growth. Clients choose EXL as their transformation partner for many reasons. Our geographic diversity make talent all over the world instantly accessible. Digital accelerators enable unmatched speed-to-value, letting you realize results fast. It’s our people that truly set us apart, though, including the 1,500 data scientists we have dedicated to our generative AI practice. And our more than twenty years of experience in delivering business services, garnering stellar client references, and maintaining a solid balance sheet are reassuring to our C-suite clients. Find out for yourself why clients, employees, and analysts think we’re some of the best in the business. Contact us to see how we can help you achieve your goals.
Company at a glance
Choosing a digital partner is about more than capabilities — it’s about collaboration and character.
Unrealistic overhauls and off-the-shelf products ignore what matters most — your unique needs, culture, goals, and your legacy data and technology environments.
At EXL, our collaboration is built on ongoing listening and learning to adapt our methodologies. We’re your business evolution partner—tailoring solutions that make the most of data to make better business decisions and drive more intelligence into your increasingly digital operations.
Whether your goals are scaling the use of AI and digital, redesign operating models, or driving better and faster decisions, we’re here to partner with you to help you gain—and maintain—competitive advantage with efficient, sustainable models at scale.
Our expertise in transformation, data science, and change management helps make your business more efficient and effective, improve customer relationships and enhance revenue growth. Instead of focusing on multi-year, resource- and time-intensive platform designs or migrations, we look deeper at your entire value chain to integrate strategies with impact.
We use our specialization in analytics, digital interventions, and operations management—alongside deep industry expertise — to deliver solutions that help you outperform the competition.
At EXL, it’s all about outcomes—your outcomes—and delivering success on your terms. Share your goals with us and together, we’ll optimize how you leverage data to drive your business forward.
For more information, visit www.exlservice.com.
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