Senior Consultant
About this role
Responsibilities:
- Oversee and drive the delivery of end-to-end projects focused on analytical applications and data solutions.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to data engineering teams, guiding them on complex challenges and best practices.
- Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to gather requirements, design solutions, and manage project deliverables.
- Utilize Generative AI frameworks like OpenAI, Hugging Face, or Google Vertex AI to design, deploy, and integrate cutting-edge AI/ML solutions.
- Manage cross-functional collaboration with Business Data Analysts (BDAs), ensuring alignment between data engineering and business goals.
- Take ownership of release planning, change management, and stakeholder engagement to ensure project success.
- Ensure adherence to Agile practices, facilitating sprint planning, retrospectives, and delivery timelines.
Technical Expertise:
- Framework and Foundational Services: Expertise in building modular, scalable, and reusable frameworks for data integration, data quality validation, and pipeline orchestration.
- Generative AI Integration: Hands-on experience with LLM (Large Language Models), Agentic AI, and integration with APIs from platforms like OpenAI, Hugging Face, and AWS AI services.
- Data Engineering: Strong background in Snowflake, SQL, DBT, and PySpark, with advanced knowledge of query optimization, CDC (Change Data Capture), and data transformation.
- Cloud Platforms: Extensive experience with AWS (Glue, EMR, S3, Lambda, Redshift), Azure Data Factory, and cloud-native architectures.
- Application Development: Expertise in developing event-driven and microservices-based architectures using Java, Python, and modern frameworks.
- CI/CD & Automation: Proficient in building CI/CD pipelines with tools like Jenkins, GitLab, and Terraform for infrastructure-as-code automation.
- Big Data & Analytics: Proven experience in managing Big Data platforms and implementing solutions for large-scale data ingestion, storage, and processing.
- Security & Compliance: Implementation of security best practices, including OWASP guidelines, RBAC, and vulnerability detection/remediation.
Must Have:
- Proven experience in building scalable data engineering frameworks and foundational services to support enterprise-wide analytics initiatives.
- Hands-on expertise in Snowflake, Spark, and AWS Glue, with knowledge of event-driven architectures and streaming data solutions.
- Strong leadership experience in managing teams and delivering complex projects in Agile environments with leading team size of more than 20 members
- Proficiency in integrating Generative AI solutions into existing platforms and workflows.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills to collaborate across diverse teams.
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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