Senior Data Engineer – Full Stack

EXL

. Platform Strategy & Leadership .

Posted 4/21/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Amazon RedshiftAWSCloudETLPySparkPythonSplunkSQLVault

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Platform Strategy & Leadership
Technical Direction: Define and champion the architectural roadmap and best practices for our end-to-end data pipelines, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security across the platform.
Team Mentorship & Project Velocity: Act as a primary technical mentor, guiding a team of engineers, conducting code reviews, and aggressively driving the project timeline to ensure rapid delivery of data products.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with Data Scientists, Analysts, and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into robust, production-ready data solutions.
Collaboration with Data Scientists and ML Engineers: Data Accessibility, Support for Model Development, Data Quality Assurance
Data Pipeline Development & Management
Ingestion & Transformation: Design, build, and optimize high-volume data ingestion and transformation jobs using tools like dbt Core, AWS Glue, or Flexter, ensuring data quality and integrity.
Workflow Orchestration: Develop and maintain sophisticated data pipelines using orchestrators such as Dagster or Talend, focusing on modularity and reusability.
Streaming & Real-time Integration: Implement and manage real-time data flows utilizing Confluent platforms or native AWS streaming services (e.g., Kinesis) for immediate data availability.
Data Security and Privacy: Data Anonymization, Compliance with Regulations
Be well versed with DataOps and DevOps fundamentals
- Assist and drive the Data Ecosystem Management & Monitoring
- Open Table Formats & Management: Implement and maintain the Iceberg open table format, utilizing tools like Upsolver (Talend Open Lakehouse) for efficient schema evolution and data management.
- Compute Engine Optimization: Optimize query performance and cost efficiency across our primary compute engines: Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, and AWS Athena.
Observability & Monitoring: Integrate comprehensive monitoring and observability into all pipelines using Splunk to ensure high availability, rapidly identify bottlenecks, and troubleshoot production issues

Requirements

What you’ll need

15+ Years of hands-on, progressive experience in Data Engineering, Data Architecture, or a closely related Full-Stack Data role
Deep conceptual understanding of core data engineering principles, including data modeling (e.g., Dimensional, Data Vault), ETL/ELT patterns, and metadata management
Proven track record of building and managing petabyte-scale data infrastructure in a cloud-native environment
Insurance industry experience preferred but not mandatory
Tools:
Cloud Environment: AWS (S3, IAM, VPC, etc.)
Experience with Talend, dbt Core, Iceberg, AWS Glue Catalog, Snowflake, Redshift, Athena, Splunk, AWS streaming services, Git
Strong SQL, Pyspark and Python

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Platform Strategy & Leadership
Technical Direction: Define and champion the architectural roadmap and best practices for our end-to-end data pipelines, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security across the platform.
Team Mentorship & Project Velocity: Act as a primary technical mentor, guiding a team of engineers, conducting code reviews, and aggressively driving the project timeline to ensure rapid delivery of data products.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with Data Scientists, Analysts, and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into robust, production-ready data solutions.
Collaboration with Data Scientists and ML Engineers: Data Accessibility, Support for Model Development, Data Quality Assurance
Data Pipeline Development & Management
Ingestion & Transformation: Design, build, and optimize high-volume data ingestion and transformation jobs using tools like dbt Core, AWS Glue, or Flexter, ensuring data quality and integrity.
Workflow Orchestration: Develop and maintain sophisticated data pipelines using orchestrators such as Dagster or Talend, focusing on modularity and reusability.
Streaming & Real-time Integration: Implement and manage real-time data flows utilizing Confluent platforms or native AWS streaming services (e.g., Kinesis) for immediate data availability.
Data Security and Privacy: Data Anonymization, Compliance with Regulations
Be well versed with DataOps and DevOps fundamentals
- Assist and drive the Data Ecosystem Management & Monitoring
- Open Table Formats & Management: Implement and maintain the Iceberg open table format, utilizing tools like Upsolver (Talend Open Lakehouse) for efficient schema evolution and data management.
- Compute Engine Optimization: Optimize query performance and cost efficiency across our primary compute engines: Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, and AWS Athena.
Observability & Monitoring: Integrate comprehensive monitoring and observability into all pipelines using Splunk to ensure high availability, rapidly identify bottlenecks, and troubleshoot production issues 🎯 Requirements
15+ Years of hands-on, progressive experience in Data Engineering, Data Architecture, or a closely related Full-Stack Data role
Deep conceptual understanding of core data engineering principles, including data modeling (e.g., Dimensional, Data Vault), ETL/ELT patterns, and metadata management
Proven track record of building and managing petabyte-scale data infrastructure in a cloud-native environment
Insurance industry experience preferred but not mandatory
Tools:
Cloud Environment: AWS (S3, IAM, VPC, etc.)
Experience with Talend, dbt Core, Iceberg, AWS Glue Catalog, Snowflake, Redshift, Athena, Splunk, AWS streaming services, Git
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Hard Skills & Tools

data engineeringdata architecturedata modelingETLELTdata quality assurancedata pipeline developmentdata ingestiondata transformationdata security

Soft Skills

team mentorshipstakeholder collaborationproject managementcommunicationleadership