Role: Offshore Tech Lead

Location: Bangalore/Gurgaon (5 days mandatory work from office)

Type: Full time

Experience: 12+ years

Key Responsibilities

- Lead a team of data engineers and BI developers, driving end-to-end delivery across the data management platform, Databricks engineering, and Power BI reporting initiatives.
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand requirements, define solution roadmaps, prioritize workstreams, and translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Own solution design, technical direction, and delivery governance while proactively resolving risks, dependencies, and technical challenges.
- Coordinate analysis, planning, and task allocation across the team, ensuring high-quality, on-time delivery and operational excellence.
- Act as the primary client-facing technical leader, confidently presenting solutions, managing stakeholder expectations, and providing strategic guidance on platform evolution.

Must-Have Skills

- 12+ years of experience in data engineering and data platform delivery, with proven experience leading teams of 10+ members in a client-facing environment.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Databricks, SQL, PySpark, modern data architecture, and Power BI, with the ability to review designs and guide technical decisions.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage business leaders, conduct workshops, and present technical solutions in business terms.
- Strong solutioning, problem-solving, and delivery management capabilities, including roadmap planning, requirement analysis, estimation, and Agile execution.
- Proven ability to mentor teams, drive accountability, manage competing priorities, and successfully deliver large-scale data and reporting programs.
- Expert-level knowledge of Data Engineering
- Expert SQL skills and hands-on experience with modern data stacks Databricks
- Must have 4+ years of financial background.

Responsibilities

- Lead a team of data engineers and BI developers,



driving end-to-end delivery across the data management platform, Databricks engineering, and Power BI reporting initiatives.
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand requirements, define solution roadmaps, prioritize workstreams, and translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Own solution design, technical direction, and delivery governance while proactively resolving risks, dependencies, and technical challenges.
- Coordinate analysis, planning, and task allocation across the team, ensuring high-quality, on-time delivery and operational excellence.
- Act as the primary client-facing technical leader, confidently presenting solutions, managing stakeholder expectations, and providing strategic guidance on platform evolution.

Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, or related field. 12+ years of experience in data engineering or related field. EXL (NASDAQ: EXLS) is a leading data analytics and digital operations and solutions company. We partner with clients using a data and AI-led approach to reinvent business models, drive better business outcomes and unlock growth with speed. EXL harnesses the power of data, analytics, AI, and deep industry knowledge to transform operations for the world’s leading corporations in industries including insurance, healthcare, banking and financial services, media and retail, among others.

EXL was founded in 1999 with the core values of innovation, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect. We are headquartered in New York and have more than 54,000 employees spanning six continents. For more information, visit www.exlservice.com.





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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.

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