Data Engineer (Snowflake)

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Data Engineer to join our dynamic team. This role involves building data pipelines, migrating legacy architecture to AI ready data & semantic layer, collaborating with stakeholders, and optimizing data workflows to support advanced analytics and business intelligence initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable, and reliable data pipelines to support analytics, reporting, and AI/ML use cases
• Lead the migration of legacy data architectures to modern, cloud‑based, AI‑ready data platforms
• Develop and implement semantic layers to enable consistent, business‑friendly access to data for analytics and BI tools
• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, data scientists, analysts, and product teams to understand data requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Ensure data quality, integrity, security, and compliance through validation, monitoring, and governance best practices
• Document data architectures, pipelines, and best practices to support knowledge sharing and long‑term maintainability

Qualifications & Core Skills (Must-Have)

• Bachelors / Master's degree in Economics, Statistics, Engineering or a related quantitative field from a top-tier university
• Advanced Python & Pyspark: 2+ years of hands-on experience with performance tuning and complex query optimization
• Hands‑on experience with modern data architectures such as data lakes, lakehouses, and data warehouses such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or Redshift
• Snowflake certification (SnowPro Core required; SnowPro Advanced preferred)
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non‑technical audiences

Desirable Skills (Good-to-Have)

• Experience supporting AI/ML pipelines and feature engineering
• Working knowledge of data visualization software such as Tableau, Power BI and Looker
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Why Join Us

• EXL offers an exciting, fast-paced and innovative environment, which brings together a group of sharp and entrepreneurial professionals who are eager to influence business decisions. From your very first day, you get an opportunity to work closely with highly experienced, world class analytics consultants and drive real world impact
• Being a Data & AI-led firm, we are constantly seeking innovative interventions in our client's workflows. This role offers a unique environment to lead in the collections services domain while learning and leveraging emerging trends across the ever-evolving data and AI landscape