Key skills
PythonScalaSQLAIMachine LearningMLETLData EngineeringData WarehousingData LakeAnalyticsSnowflakeBigQuerySparkApache SparkAirflowGCPVaultCloud StoragecomposerLeadership
About this role
EXL is seeking a Senior Data Engineer (Lead) to drive and own end-to-end data engineering initiatives. This role involves leading all data engineering efforts while collaborating with Data Science and Analytics teams to design scalable data platforms and support machine learning use cases.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage end-to-end Data Engineering delivery across projects and initiatives
- Act as the primary technical owner for data pipelines, architecture, and platform design
- Mentor and guide a team of data engineers, ensuring best practices and coding standards
- Design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines on GCP
- Define and implement modern data architectures (data lake, lakehouse, warehouse)
- Ensure high performance, reliability, and data quality across pipelines
- Partner closely with Data Science teams to enable ML/AI workflows
- Translate business and modeling requirements into optimized data structures
- Support feature engineering, model training, and deployment pipelines
- Design logical and physical data models for analytics and ML use cases
- Implement dimensional modeling (Star/Snowflake schemas) and data vault where applicable
- Optimize datasets for performance, scalability, and usability
- Build and manage solutions using GCP services such as: BigQuery, Cloud Composer (Airflow), Cloud Storage, Dataproc
- Ensure security, governance, and cost optimization on GCP
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in Data Engineering, with leadership experience
- Strong expertise in GCP ecosystem and services
- Proficiency in SQL, Python, and/or Scala
- Hands-on experience with ETL frameworks and distributed processing
- Solid experience in Dimensional modeling, Data warehousing concepts, Data structures for ML/analytics
- Experience with Apache Spark and Real-time and batch processing frameworks
- Experience working with cross-functional teams (Data Science, Analytics, Business)
- Proven ability to lead, mentor, and drive delivery
- Strong ownership mindset with leadership capabilities
- Excellent problem-solving and architectural thinking
- Ability to operate in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
- Experience in ML data pipelines / feature stores
- Knowledge of data governance, lineage, and quality frameworks
- Exposure to healthcare/payor domain (nice to have)
- Certifications in GCP (Professional Data Engineer)