EXL Service

Forward Deployed Engineer

EXL Service • $120K — $140K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Masters or Bachelors in Engineering, Data Science, IT, or related field required.
  • 5-7 years of experience in software development, data engineering, or solution architecture.
  • Deep understanding of cloud-native applications and architectures, particularly on Azure.
  • Proven ability to lead client engagements and translate complex business requirements into technical solutions.
  • Experience with application development, integration, and data warehousing with Azure services.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with clients to identify objectives, pain points, and success criteria.
  • Lead workshops and technical demonstrations to validate solutions and gather requirements.
  • Translate complex business challenges into actionable use cases and delivery plans.
  • Act as a technical advisor through the entire implementation and stabilization process.
  • Develop a comprehensive understanding of client business processes and decision-making needs.
  • Design and build data pipelines and applications on Azure, integrating various systems and services.
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines and ensure best practices in software development and architecture.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth and development within a collaborative environment.
  • Exposure to high-impact client engagements and cutting-edge technology.
  • Flexibility in work environment potentially including remote work options.
  • Engagement with diverse projects across various industries, enhancing skill set and experience.
Full Job Description
JOB DESCRIPTION

What Makes This Role Different

  • Work alongside client teams in high-impact environments, moving from problem discovery to production deployment.
  • Combine business and functional understanding with deep engineering execution rather than operating only as an advisory architect.
  • Own measurable outcomes across solution design, application development, data engineering, adoption, and production readiness.
  • Build reusable accelerators and patterns while adapting solutions to client-specific workflows and constraints.

Key Responsibilities Client Engagement & Forward Deployment

  • Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, analysts, and technology leaders to understand objectives, pain points, KPIs, users, and operating constraints.
  • Lead discovery sessions, functional workshops, architecture reviews, technical demonstrations, prototypes, and proof-of-concepts.
  • Translate ambiguous business problems into prioritized use cases, user stories, technical designs, delivery plans, and measurable success criteria.
  • Act as a trusted technical advisor and maintain close engagement through implementation, rollout, adoption, and stabilization.

Business & Functional Consulting

  • Develop a strong understanding of client business processes, workflows, policies, data definitions, controls, and decision-making needs.
  • Perform process analysis and identify opportunities for application modernization, workflow automation, data enablement, and AI-assisted decision support.
  • Define functional requirements, acceptance criteria, business rules, source-to-target mappings, and operational scenarios in partnership with business users.
  • Ensure solutions are usable, explainable, aligned with business outcomes, and supported by clear documentation and training materials.
  • P&C Insurance domain experience is good to have

Application Development & Solution Engineering

  • Design, develop, test, deploy, and support enterprise applications, data applications, APIs, microservices, and workflow solutions on Azure.
  • Build backend services using Python etc..to develop user interfaces using React or Angular where required.
  • Integrate applications with Snowflake, Databricks, Azure services, REST APIs, enterprise platforms, and third-party systems.
  • Apply secure software development practices, modular design, automated testing, observability, error handling, and performance engineering.
  • Own the full software development lifecycle, including requirements, design, coding, reviews, release, production support, and continuous improvement.

Data Engineering & Platform Development

  • Design and build scalable batch, streaming, and event-driven pipelines using ADF, Databricks, Snowflake, and related Azure services.
  • Implement lakehouse, data lake, and cloud data warehouse patterns, including bronze, silver, and gold data layers.
  • Develop ETL/ELT workflows, reusable ingestion frameworks, business-ready datasets, dimensional models, and data quality controls.
  • Optimize Spark, PySpark, SQL, Snowflake workloads for performance, reliability, scalability, and cost.
  • Implement metadata management, lineage, access controls, monitoring, reconciliation, and operational support processes.

Architecture, DevOps & Production Readiness

  • Design cloud-native architectures that meet security, scalability, resilience, integration, and maintainability requirements.
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, automated testing, release controls, and environment promotion using Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Terraform.
  • Create solution documentation, data-flow diagrams, support playbooks, and operational runbooks.
  • Drive code reviews, engineering standards, root-cause analysis, production stabilization, cross-training, and knowledge transfer.

The posted range is the hiring range for this role — a subset of the broader range available to employees over time — and reflects base salary across our national hiring scale. Final offers are based on several factors, including the candidate's skills and experience, internal pay equity, work location, market conditions for the role, and the specific scope and responsibilities of the position. The top of the range is reserved for candidates who notably exceed the requirements; the lower end applies to those with less experience or fewer preferred qualifications. For positions based in higher-cost zones (e.g., California, New York, New Jersey), actual compensation may exceed the posted range; your recruiter will share specifics during the process


JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

What Makes This Role Different

  • Work alongside client teams in high-impact environments, moving from problem discovery to production deployment.
  • Combine business and functional understanding with deep engineering execution rather than operating only as an advisory architect.
  • Own measurable outcomes across solution design, application development, data engineering, adoption, and production readiness.
  • Build reusable accelerators and patterns while adapting solutions to client-specific workflows and constraints.

Key Responsibilities Client Engagement & Forward Deployment

  • Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, analysts, and technology leaders to understand objectives, pain points, KPIs, users, and operating constraints.
  • Lead discovery sessions, functional workshops, architecture reviews, technical demonstrations, prototypes, and proof-of-concepts.
  • Translate ambiguous business problems into prioritized use cases, user stories, technical designs, delivery plans, and measurable success criteria.
  • Act as a trusted technical advisor and maintain close engagement through implementation, rollout, adoption, and stabilization.

Business & Functional Consulting

  • Develop a strong understanding of client business processes, workflows, policies, data definitions, controls, and decision-making needs.
  • Perform process analysis and identify opportunities for application modernization, workflow automation, data enablement, and AI-assisted decision support.
  • Define functional requirements, acceptance criteria, business rules, source-to-target mappings, and operational scenarios in partnership with business users.
  • Ensure solutions are usable, explainable, aligned with business outcomes, and supported by clear documentation and training materials.
  • P&C Insurance domain experience is good to have

Application Development & Solution Engineering

  • Design, develop, test, deploy, and support enterprise applications, data applications, APIs, microservices, and workflow solutions on Azure.
  • Build backend services using Python etc..to develop user interfaces using React or Angular where required.
  • Integrate applications with Snowflake, Databricks, Azure services, REST APIs, enterprise platforms, and third-party systems.
  • Apply secure software development practices, modular design, automated testing, observability, error handling, and performance engineering.
  • Own the full software development lifecycle, including requirements, design, coding, reviews, release, production support, and continuous improvement.

Data Engineering & Platform Development

  • Design and build scalable batch, streaming, and event-driven pipelines using ADF, Databricks, Snowflake, and related Azure services.
  • Implement lakehouse, data lake, and cloud data warehouse patterns, including bronze, silver, and gold data layers.
  • Develop ETL/ELT workflows, reusable ingestion frameworks, business-ready datasets, dimensional models, and data quality controls.
  • Optimize Spark, PySpark, SQL, Snowflake workloads for performance, reliability, scalability, and cost.
  • Implement metadata management, lineage, access controls, monitoring, reconciliation, and operational support processes.

Architecture, DevOps & Production Readiness

  • Design cloud-native architectures that meet security, scalability, resilience, integration, and maintainability requirements.
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, automated testing, release controls, and environment promotion using Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Terraform.
  • Create solution documentation, data-flow diagrams, support playbooks, and operational runbooks.
  • Drive code reviews, engineering standards, root-cause analysis, production stabilization, cross-training, and knowledge transfer.

The posted range is the hiring range for this role — a subset of the broader range available to employees over time — and reflects base salary across our national hiring scale. Final offers are based on several factors, including the candidate's skills and experience, internal pay equity, work location, market conditions for the role, and the specific scope and responsibilities of the position. The top of the range is reserved for candidates who notably exceed the requirements; the lower end applies to those with less experience or fewer preferred qualifications. For positions based in higher-cost zones (e.g., California, New York, New Jersey), actual compensation may exceed the posted range; your recruiter will share specifics during the process


JOB QUALIFICATIONS

Masters or Bachelors in Engineering, Data Science , IT or related field

About EXL Service

EXL Service is a leading operations management and analytics company that helps businesses enhance growth and profitability. The company provides services in areas such as finance and accounting, customer service, and healthcare. EXL Service was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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