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What you’ll work on

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  • Present complex architectures to executive and technical stakeholders

  • Architect scalable data and AI platforms for presales demonstrations

  • Build reusable industry-specific demo environments on hyperscaler services

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Present complex architectures in a clear, business-outcome-driven manner to both executive and technical stakeholders.
Architect distributed, scalable, and resilient data and AI platforms for presales demonstrations.
Build reusable, industry-specific demo environments leveraging hyperscaler services and data platforms.

What you’ll bring

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Core experience

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • 15+ years in software architecture, presales engineering, or enterprise data/AI platform design.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • 15+ years in software architecture, presales engineering, or enterprise data/AI platform design.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • 15+ years in software architecture, presales engineering, or enterprise data/AI platform design.

Preferred experience

  • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms and usage-based billing.
  • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms and usage-based billing.
  • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms and usage-based billing.
  • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms and usage-based billing.
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Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
15+ years in software architecture, presales engineering, or enterprise data/AI platform design.
Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms and usage-based billing.
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Qualifications: - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. - Certifications preferred:
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- Hands-on with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK). - Advanced programming with Python (async), TypeScript/JavaScript, or Go. - Familiarity with Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio), serverless design patterns.
- Deep expertise in: - PySpark, SQL, Python - Databricks / Snowflake (one mandatory, both preferred)
- Certifications preferred: - Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP). - Kubernetes / CNCF ecosystem.
- Azure (Fabric, Synapse, Data Factory, Azure ML, Power BI). - AWS (Redshift, Glue, S3, SageMaker, Lake Formation). - GCP (BigQuery, Dataplex, Vertex AI, Pub/Sub).
- 6–12+ years as a Senior Data Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineer, or Platform Engineer. - Strong hands-on experience with at least one hyperscaler (AWS or Azure or GCP). - Deep expertise in:
- Hands-on expertise in at least two hyperscaler platforms: - Azure (Fabric, Synapse, Data Factory, Azure ML, Power BI). - AWS (Redshift, Glue, S3, SageMaker, Lake Formation).
- AWS (Redshift, Glue, S3, SageMaker, Lake Formation). - GCP (BigQuery, Dataplex, Vertex AI, Pub/Sub). - Proven experience architecting distributed systems, microservices, and scalable AI/ML platforms.
- Databricks / Snowflake (one mandatory, both preferred) - Cloud data services (Kinesis, Glue, Redshift, Synapse, BigQuery, DataProc, etc.) - Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD
- PySpark, SQL, Python - Databricks / Snowflake (one mandatory, both preferred) - Cloud data services (Kinesis, Glue, Redshift, Synapse, BigQuery, DataProc, etc.)
- Cloud data services (Kinesis, Glue, Redshift, Synapse, BigQuery, DataProc, etc.) - Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD - IAM, VPC, private networking, secrets, API management
- Expertise in event-driven systems and asynchronous workflows. - Hands-on with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK). - Advanced programming with Python (async), TypeScript/JavaScript, or Go.
- Design abstraction layers for multi-model AI orchestration, including fallback logic, dynamic model switching, and cost control. - Lead implementation of event-driven architectures using messaging frameworks (Kafka, Pulsar, SQS, etc.) and state machines. - Build reusable, industry-specific demo environments leveraging hyperscaler services and data platforms.
- Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP). - Kubernetes / CNCF ecosystem. - Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, SAFe).
- Advanced programming with Python (async), TypeScript/JavaScript, or Go. - Familiarity with Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio), serverless design patterns. - Experience with CI/CD automation, GitOps, Terraform, Helm.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio), serverless design patterns. - Experience with CI/CD automation, GitOps, Terraform, Helm. - Strong presentation, storytelling, and client engagement skills.

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About EXL Service

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About the role

We file this job under AI Engineer, by the work the posting describes.

AI engineers build products on top of AI models that already exist, most often large language models: they connect a model to a company's data and tools and ship the assistants, agents and search features people use.

Postings ask for strong Python or TypeScript, experience with model APIs, retrieval and agent frameworks, and ways to test whether the model's answers are good enough.

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Job description

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Key Responsibilities: 

Presales & Client Engagement

  • Partner with sales and industry teams to design client-ready demos, proof-of-concepts, and technical solution blueprints.
  • Present complex architectures in a clear, business-outcome-driven manner to both executive and technical stakeholders.
  • Contribute to RFP/RFI responses, solution proposals, and deal shaping.
  • Act as a trusted advisor in client conversations, highlighting differentiators of Data & AI Solutions.

Solution Architecture & Demo Environments

  • Architect distributed, scalable, and resilient data and AI platforms for presales demonstrations.
  • Design abstraction layers for multi-model AI orchestration, including fallback logic, dynamic model switching, and cost control.
  • Lead implementation of event-driven architectures using messaging frameworks (Kafka, Pulsar, SQS, etc.) and state machines.
  • Build reusable, industry-specific demo environments leveraging hyperscaler services and data platforms.

Observability, Security & Compliance

  • Define and enforce observability standards for demo and enterprise environments (logging, tracing, telemetry, real-time alerting).
  • Implement zero-trust security models (RBAC/ABAC, IAM, OAuth2, encryption, API gateways).
  • Ensure all demo and client environments meet compliance standards such as HIPAA, GDPR, SOC2.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Work with Product, Data Science, Engineering, and Governance teams to align demos with business/regulatory needs.
  • Collaborate with IMUs (verticals) to build domain-specific demo templates (e.g., Insurance claims, Healthcare payment integrity, Banking KYC/fraud, Retail personalization).
  • Provide hands-on support to engineering teams during delivery, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.

Innovation & Technical Leadership

  • Stay ahead of hyperscaler advancements, AI/ML frameworks, and orchestration patterns.
  • Drive technical due diligence, PoCs, and vendor/platform evaluations.
  • Create technical artifacts (architecture diagrams, design patterns, runbooks).
  • Mentor presales engineers and junior architects in solution design and client presentation skills.
 
 

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • Certifications preferred:
    • Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
    • Kubernetes / CNCF ecosystem.
  • Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, SAFe).
  •  

Skills & Experience

Must-Have Skills & Experience

  • 15+ years in software architecture, presales engineering, or enterprise data/AI platform design.
  • Hands-on expertise in at least two hyperscaler platforms:
    • Azure (Fabric, Synapse, Data Factory, Azure ML, Power BI).
    • AWS (Redshift, Glue, S3, SageMaker, Lake Formation).
    • GCP (BigQuery, Dataplex, Vertex AI, Pub/Sub).
  • Proven experience architecting distributed systems, microservices, and scalable AI/ML platforms.
  • Strong knowledge of Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata, Lineage, and DataOps.
  • Expertise in event-driven systems and asynchronous workflows.
  • Hands-on with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK).
  • Advanced programming with Python (async), TypeScript/JavaScript, or Go.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio), serverless design patterns.
  • Experience with CI/CD automation, GitOps, Terraform, Helm.
  • Strong presentation, storytelling, and client engagement skills.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms and usage-based billing.
  • Familiarity with data mesh, knowledge graphs, and semantic interoperability.
  • Knowledge of frontend architecture patterns (micro-frontends, data visualizations).
  • Experience building presales demo or sandbox environments.

Exposure to agentic AI concepts and LLM-based orchestration.Presales & Client Engagement

  • Partner with sales and industry teams to design client-ready demos, proof-of-concepts, and technical solution blueprints.
  • Present complex architectures in a clear, business-outcome-driven manner to both executive and technical stakeholders.
  • Contribute to RFP/RFI responses, solution proposals, and deal shaping.
  • Act as a trusted advisor in client conversations, highlighting differentiators of Data & AI Solutions.

Solution Architecture & Demo Environments

  • Architect distributed, scalable, and resilient data and AI platforms for presales demonstrations.
  • Design abstraction layers for multi-model AI orchestration, including fallback logic, dynamic model switching, and cost control.
  • Lead implementation of event-driven architectures using messaging frameworks (Kafka, Pulsar, SQS, etc.) and state machines.
  • Build reusable, industry-specific demo environments leveraging hyperscaler services and data platforms.

Observability, Security & Compliance

  • Define and enforce observability standards for demo and enterprise environments (logging, tracing, telemetry, real-time alerting).
  • Implement zero-trust security models (RBAC/ABAC, IAM, OAuth2, encryption, API gateways).
  • Ensure all demo and client environments meet compliance standards such as HIPAA, GDPR, SOC2.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Work with Product, Data Science, Engineering, and Governance teams to align demos with business/regulatory needs.
  • Collaborate with IMUs (verticals) to build domain-specific demo templates (e.g., Insurance claims, Healthcare payment integrity, Banking KYC/fraud, Retail personalization).
  • Provide hands-on support to engineering teams during delivery, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.

Innovation & Technical Leadership

  • Stay ahead of hyperscaler advancements, AI/ML frameworks, and orchestration patterns.
  • Drive technical due diligence, PoCs, and vendor/platform evaluations.
  • Create technical artifacts (architecture diagrams, design patterns, runbooks).
  • Mentor presales engineers and junior architects in solution design and client presentation skills.
 
 

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • Certifications preferred:
    • Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
    • Kubernetes / CNCF ecosystem.
  • Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, SAFe).
  •  

Skills & Experience

Must-Have Skills & Experience

  • 15+ years in software architecture, presales engineering, or enterprise data/AI platform design.
  • Hands-on expertise in at least two hyperscaler platforms:
    • Azure (Fabric, Synapse, Data Factory, Azure ML, Power BI).
    • AWS (Redshift, Glue, S3, SageMaker, Lake Formation).
    • GCP (BigQuery, Dataplex, Vertex AI, Pub/Sub).
  • Proven experience architecting distributed systems, microservices, and scalable AI/ML platforms.
  • Strong knowledge of Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata, Lineage, and DataOps.
  • Expertise in event-driven systems and asynchronous workflows.
  • Hands-on with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK).
  • Advanced programming with Python (async), TypeScript/JavaScript, or Go.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio), serverless design patterns.
  • Experience with CI/CD automation, GitOps, Terraform, Helm.
  • Strong presentation, storytelling, and client engagement skills.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms and usage-based billing.
  • Familiarity with data mesh, knowledge graphs, and semantic interoperability.
  • Knowledge of frontend architecture patterns (micro-frontends, data visualizations).
  • Experience building presales demo or sandbox environments.

Exposure to agentic AI concepts and LLM-based orchestration.

Key Responsibilities: 

Presales & Client Engagement

  • Partner with sales and industry teams to design client-ready demos, proof-of-concepts, and technical solution blueprints.
  • Present complex architectures in a clear, business-outcome-driven manner to both executive and technical stakeholders.
  • Contribute to RFP/RFI responses, solution proposals, and deal shaping.
  • Act as a trusted advisor in client conversations, highlighting differentiators of Data & AI Solutions.

Solution Architecture & Demo Environments

  • Architect distributed, scalable, and resilient data and AI platforms for presales demonstrations.
  • Design abstraction layers for multi-model AI orchestration, including fallback logic, dynamic model switching, and cost control.
  • Lead implementation of event-driven architectures using messaging frameworks (Kafka, Pulsar, SQS, etc.) and state machines.
  • Build reusable, industry-specific demo environments leveraging hyperscaler services and data platforms.

Observability, Security & Compliance

  • Define and enforce observability standards for demo and enterprise environments (logging, tracing, telemetry, real-time alerting).
  • Implement zero-trust security models (RBAC/ABAC, IAM, OAuth2, encryption, API gateways).
  • Ensure all demo and client environments meet compliance standards such as HIPAA, GDPR, SOC2.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Work with Product, Data Science, Engineering, and Governance teams to align demos with business/regulatory needs.
  • Collaborate with IMUs (verticals) to build domain-specific demo templates (e.g., Insurance claims, Healthcare payment integrity, Banking KYC/fraud, Retail personalization).
  • Provide hands-on support to engineering teams during delivery, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.

Innovation & Technical Leadership

  • Stay ahead of hyperscaler advancements, AI/ML frameworks, and orchestration patterns.
  • Drive technical due diligence, PoCs, and vendor/platform evaluations.
  • Create technical artifacts (architecture diagrams, design patterns, runbooks).
  • Mentor presales engineers and junior architects in solution design and client presentation skills.
 
 

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • Certifications preferred:
    • Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
    • Kubernetes / CNCF ecosystem.
  • Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, SAFe).
  •  

Skills & Experience

Must-Have Skills & Experience

  • 15+ years in software architecture, presales engineering, or enterprise data/AI platform design.
  • Hands-on expertise in at least two hyperscaler platforms:
    • Azure (Fabric, Synapse, Data Factory, Azure ML, Power BI).
    • AWS (Redshift, Glue, S3, SageMaker, Lake Formation).
    • GCP (BigQuery, Dataplex, Vertex AI, Pub/Sub).
  • Proven experience architecting distributed systems, microservices, and scalable AI/ML platforms.
  • Strong knowledge of Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata, Lineage, and DataOps.
  • Expertise in event-driven systems and asynchronous workflows.
  • Hands-on with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK).
  • Advanced programming with Python (async), TypeScript/JavaScript, or Go.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio), serverless design patterns.
  • Experience with CI/CD automation, GitOps, Terraform, Helm.
  • Strong presentation, storytelling, and client engagement skills.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms and usage-based billing.
  • Familiarity with data mesh, knowledge graphs, and semantic interoperability.
  • Knowledge of frontend architecture patterns (micro-frontends, data visualizations).
  • Experience building presales demo or sandbox environments.

Exposure to agentic AI concepts and LLM-based orchestration.Presales & Client Engagement

  • Partner with sales and industry teams to design client-ready demos, proof-of-concepts, and technical solution blueprints.
  • Present complex architectures in a clear, business-outcome-driven manner to both executive and technical stakeholders.
  • Contribute to RFP/RFI responses, solution proposals, and deal shaping.
  • Act as a trusted advisor in client conversations, highlighting differentiators of Data & AI Solutions.

Solution Architecture & Demo Environments

  • Architect distributed, scalable, and resilient data and AI platforms for presales demonstrations.
  • Design abstraction layers for multi-model AI orchestration, including fallback logic, dynamic model switching, and cost control.
  • Lead implementation of event-driven architectures using messaging frameworks (Kafka, Pulsar, SQS, etc.) and state machines.
  • Build reusable, industry-specific demo environments leveraging hyperscaler services and data platforms.

Observability, Security & Compliance

  • Define and enforce observability standards for demo and enterprise environments (logging, tracing, telemetry, real-time alerting).
  • Implement zero-trust security models (RBAC/ABAC, IAM, OAuth2, encryption, API gateways).
  • Ensure all demo and client environments meet compliance standards such as HIPAA, GDPR, SOC2.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Work with Product, Data Science, Engineering, and Governance teams to align demos with business/regulatory needs.
  • Collaborate with IMUs (verticals) to build domain-specific demo templates (e.g., Insurance claims, Healthcare payment integrity, Banking KYC/fraud, Retail personalization).
  • Provide hands-on support to engineering teams during delivery, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.

Innovation & Technical Leadership

  • Stay ahead of hyperscaler advancements, AI/ML frameworks, and orchestration patterns.
  • Drive technical due diligence, PoCs, and vendor/platform evaluations.
  • Create technical artifacts (architecture diagrams, design patterns, runbooks).
  • Mentor presales engineers and junior architects in solution design and client presentation skills.
 
 

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • Certifications preferred:
    • Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
    • Kubernetes / CNCF ecosystem.
  • Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, SAFe).
  •  

Skills & Experience

Must-Have Skills & Experience

  • 15+ years in software architecture, presales engineering, or enterprise data/AI platform design.
  • Hands-on expertise in at least two hyperscaler platforms:
    • Azure (Fabric, Synapse, Data Factory, Azure ML, Power BI).
    • AWS (Redshift, Glue, S3, SageMaker, Lake Formation).
    • GCP (BigQuery, Dataplex, Vertex AI, Pub/Sub).
  • Proven experience architecting distributed systems, microservices, and scalable AI/ML platforms.
  • Strong knowledge of Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata, Lineage, and DataOps.
  • Expertise in event-driven systems and asynchronous workflows.
  • Hands-on with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK).
  • Advanced programming with Python (async), TypeScript/JavaScript, or Go.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio), serverless design patterns.
  • Experience with CI/CD automation, GitOps, Terraform, Helm.
  • Strong presentation, storytelling, and client engagement skills.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms and usage-based billing.
  • Familiarity with data mesh, knowledge graphs, and semantic interoperability.
  • Knowledge of frontend architecture patterns (micro-frontends, data visualizations).
  • Experience building presales demo or sandbox environments.

Exposure to agentic AI concepts and LLM-based orchestration.

Technical Expertise

  • 6–12+ years as a Senior Data Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineer, or Platform Engineer.
  • Strong hands-on experience with at least one hyperscaler (AWS or Azure or GCP).
  • Deep expertise in:
    • PySpark, SQL, Python
    • Databricks / Snowflake (one mandatory, both preferred)
    • Cloud data services (Kinesis, Glue, Redshift, Synapse, BigQuery, DataProc, etc.)
    • Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD
    • IAM, VPC, private networking, secrets, API management

Delivery & Client Facing Skills

  • Demonstrated ability to work directly with client engineering teams.
  • Comfortable running design discussions, debugging sessions, and deployment workshops.
  • Strong communication skills; able to simplify technical topics for business audiences.
  • Ability to operate independently with a consulting mindset and ownership mentality.

GenAI & Multi-Agent Curiosity

  • Exposure to LLMs, agent tooling (LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, etc.), or willingness to learn fast.
  • Strong interest in how AI can automate data engineering and governance.

Mindset & Attributes

  • “Can-do” attitude; thrives in ambiguity.
  • Fast learner; bias for action.
  • Team player who collaborates across product, engineering, and client teams.
  • Customer-first orientation and passion for delivering measurable outcomes.

 

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