Assistant Vice President
EXL · Gurugram
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.
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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.
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.