EXL

Forward Deployed Engineer

EXL  •  Jersey City, NJ (Onsite)  •  3 hours ago
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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

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

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

EXL

About EXL

Choosing a digital partner is about more than capabilities — it’s about collaboration and character.

Unrealistic overhauls and off-the-shelf products ignore what matters most — your unique needs, culture, goals, and your legacy data and technology environments.

At EXL, our collaboration is built on ongoing listening and learning to adapt our methodologies. We’re your business evolution partner—tailoring solutions that make the most of data to make better business decisions and drive more intelligence into your increasingly digital operations.

Whether your goals are scaling the use of AI and digital, redesign operating models, or driving better and faster decisions, we’re here to partner with you to help you gain—and maintain—competitive advantage with efficient, sustainable models at scale.

Our expertise in transformation, data science, and change management helps make your business more efficient and effective, improve customer relationships and enhance revenue growth. Instead of focusing on multi-year, resource- and time-intensive platform designs or migrations, we look deeper at your entire value chain to integrate strategies with impact.

We use our specialization in analytics, digital interventions, and operations management—alongside deep industry expertise — to deliver solutions that help you outperform the competition.

At EXL, it’s all about outcomes—your outcomes—and delivering success on your terms. Share your goals with us and together, we’ll optimize how you leverage data to drive your business forward.

For more information, visit www.exlservice.com.

Industry
Consulting & Advisory
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
New York, NY
Year Founded
Unknown
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