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    Lead AI Data Engineer

    Noida, IndiaOn-SiteFull-time9–12 yrs experiencePosted 2mo ago
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    Job description

    • Job Role: Gen AI Engineer-Gen AI Engineer
    • Experience (In Years): 9-12
    • Job Location: Noida

    Key Responsibilities

    1. Solution Architecture & Technical Leadership

    • Architect enterprise-grade agentic and LLM solutions (single-agent, multi-agent, tool-driven workflows)
    • Define scalable GenAI system design patterns (RAG, orchestration layers, evaluation frameworks)
    • Act as the technical anchor for GenAI initiatives across projects
    • Drive design reviews, architecture governance, and best practices

    2. Agentic AI & LLM Engineering

    • Design and build agentic systems using LLMs for use cases such as:
      • Knowledge assistants
      • Document automation & intelligence
      • Workflow orchestration
    • Implement advanced prompt engineering strategies, prompt orchestration, and reasoning chains
    • Build tool-calling / function-calling frameworks for agent workflows

    3. RAG & Retrieval Systems

    • Lead end-to-end implementation of RAG pipelines:
      • Data ingestion → chunking → embeddings → vector indexing → retrieval → response generation
    • Optimise retrieval quality (recall, relevance, grounding)
    • Evaluate and benchmark different architectures

    4. Productisation & Engineering Excellence

    • Develop production-grade APIs/services (FastAPI, Flask, etc.)
    • Drive code quality, testing standards, and reusable architecture components
    • Ensure solutions are performance optimised (latency, cost, reliability)

    5. Governance, Safety & Evaluation

    • Implement LLM guardrails:
      • Hallucination control
      • Safety filters
      • Policy enforcement
    • Define evaluation frameworks:
      • Response quality metrics
      • RAG benchmarking
      • Human-in-the-loop validation

    6. Collaboration & Delivery Leadership

    • Partner with:
      • Data Engineering → pipelines, data quality, governance
      • MLOps → deployment, CI/CD, monitoring
      • Business/Product → use-case alignment
    • Drive end-to-end delivery ownership across multiple projects

    7. Technical Leadership Responsibilities (Critical Addition)

    • Mentor and guide junior engineers and project teams
    • Conduct technical reviews, solution walkthroughs, and code reviews
    • Support pre-sales / RFPs / solution proposals with architecture inputs
    • Drive reusable accelerators, frameworks, and COE assets
    • Stay ahead of industry evolution and help shape EXL’s GenAI strategy
    • Influence technology choice, design decisions, and roadmap planning

    Must-Have Skills

    Experience

    • 9–12 years total experience
    • 2–4+ years hands-on in LLM / GenAI delivery (production use cases)

    LLM / GenAI & Agentic Engineering

    • Strong hands-on experience with:
      • LLMs (Claude, OpenAI, etc.)
      • RAG pipelines and retrieval optimisation
      • GPT + Agentic AI implementation experience
    • Experience with:
      • LangChain, LangGraph, or similar frameworks
      • Agent orchestration and tool-calling architectures
    • Deep understanding of:
      • LLM limitations, evaluation, and optimisation strategies

    Core Engineering

    • Strong Python/Pyspark engineering expertise (production-grade development) with proven API integration experience
    • Deep data analysis experience and handling large volume of data
    • Fabric/Azure Databricks/Snowflake data engineering integration skills
    • Good exposure to:
      • Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)
      • SQL
      • Containers, CI/CD, monitoring

    Data / AI Foundations (Mandatory)

    Prior experience in one or more:

    • Data Engineering (ETL/ELT, pipelines, orchestration)
    • Data Science / ML lifecycle (especially NLP)
    • Analytics engineering / data products

    Leadership Capabilities

    • Experience leading solution design or small teams
    • Ability to translate business problems into AI solutions
    • Strong stakeholder communication and influencing skills

    Good-to-Have / Preferred

    • Fine-tuning approaches: LoRA / PEFT / prompt tuning
    • Experience with Azure AI stack (Azure OpenAI, AI Search)
    • Exposure to:
      • Enterprise security & data privacy in GenAI
      • Coding agents / autonomous agent frameworks

    Experience in insurance / BFSI domains (valuable for EXL use cases)

    Responsibilities

    Key Responsibilities

    1. Solution Architecture & Technical Leadership

    • Architect enterprise-grade agentic and LLM solutions (single-agent, multi-agent, tool-driven workflows)
    • Define scalable GenAI system design patterns (RAG, orchestration layers, evaluation frameworks)
    • Act as the technical anchor for GenAI initiatives across projects
    • Drive design reviews, architecture governance, and best practices

    2. Agentic AI & LLM Engineering

    • Design and build agentic systems using LLMs for use cases such as:
      • Knowledge assistants
      • Document automation & intelligence
      • Workflow orchestration
    • Implement advanced prompt engineering strategies, prompt orchestration, and reasoning chains
    • Build tool-calling / function-calling frameworks for agent workflows

    3. RAG & Retrieval Systems

    • Lead end-to-end implementation of RAG pipelines:
      • Data ingestion → chunking → embeddings → vector indexing → retrieval → response generation
    • Optimise retrieval quality (recall, relevance, grounding)
    • Evaluate and benchmark different architectures

    4. Productisation & Engineering Excellence

    • Develop production-grade APIs/services (FastAPI, Flask, etc.)
    • Drive code quality, testing standards, and reusable architecture components
    • Ensure solutions are performance optimised (latency, cost, reliability)

    5. Governance, Safety & Evaluation

    • Implement LLM guardrails:
      • Hallucination control
      • Safety filters
      • Policy enforcement
    • Define evaluation frameworks:
      • Response quality metrics
      • RAG benchmarking
      • Human-in-the-loop validation

    6. Collaboration & Delivery Leadership

    • Partner with:
      • Data Engineering → pipelines, data quality, governance
      • MLOps → deployment, CI/CD, monitoring
      • Business/Product → use-case alignment
    • Drive end-to-end delivery ownership across multiple projects

    7. Technical Leadership Responsibilities (Critical Addition)

    • Mentor and guide junior engineers and project teams
    • Conduct technical reviews, solution walkthroughs, and code reviews
    • Support pre-sales / RFPs / solution proposals with architecture inputs
    • Drive reusable accelerators, frameworks, and COE assets
    • Stay ahead of industry evolution and help shape EXL’s GenAI strategy
    • Influence technology choice, design decisions, and roadmap planning

    Must-Have Skills

    Experience

    • 9–12 years total experience
    • 2–4+ years hands-on in LLM / GenAI delivery (production use cases)

    LLM / GenAI & Agentic Engineering

    • Strong hands-on experience with:
      • LLMs (Claude, OpenAI, etc.)
      • RAG pipelines and retrieval optimisation
      • GPT + Agentic AI implementation experience
    • Experience with:
      • LangChain, LangGraph, or similar frameworks
      • Agent orchestration and tool-calling architectures
    • Deep understanding of:
      • LLM limitations, evaluation, and optimisation strategies

    Core Engineering

    • Strong Python/Pyspark engineering expertise (production-grade development) with proven API integration experience
    • Deep data analysis experience and handling large volume of data
    • Fabric/Azure Databricks/Snowflake data engineering integration skills
    • Good exposure to:
      • Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)
      • SQL
      • Containers, CI/CD, monitoring

    Data / AI Foundations (Mandatory)

    Prior experience in one or more:

    • Data Engineering (ETL/ELT, pipelines, orchestration)
    • Data Science / ML lifecycle (especially NLP)
    • Analytics engineering / data products

    Leadership Capabilities

    • Experience leading solution design or small teams
    • Ability to translate business problems into AI solutions
    • Strong stakeholder communication and influencing skills

    Good-to-Have / Preferred

    • Fine-tuning approaches: LoRA / PEFT / prompt tuning
    • Experience with Azure AI stack (Azure OpenAI, AI Search)
    • Exposure to:
      • Enterprise security & data privacy in GenAI
      • Coding agents / autonomous agent frameworks

    Experience in insurance / BFSI domains (valuable for EXL use cases)

    Qualifications

    Key Responsibilities

    1. Solution Architecture & Technical Leadership

    • Architect enterprise-grade agentic and LLM solutions (single-agent, multi-agent, tool-driven workflows)
    • Define scalable GenAI system design patterns (RAG, orchestration layers, evaluation frameworks)
    • Act as the technical anchor for GenAI initiatives across projects
    • Drive design reviews, architecture governance, and best practices

    2. Agentic AI & LLM Engineering

    • Design and build agentic systems using LLMs for use cases such as:
      • Knowledge assistants
      • Document automation & intelligence
      • Workflow orchestration
    • Implement advanced prompt engineering strategies, prompt orchestration, and reasoning chains
    • Build tool-calling / function-calling frameworks for agent workflows

    3. RAG & Retrieval Systems

    • Lead end-to-end implementation of RAG pipelines:
      • Data ingestion → chunking → embeddings → vector indexing → retrieval → response generation
    • Optimise retrieval quality (recall, relevance, grounding)
    • Evaluate and benchmark different architectures

    4. Productisation & Engineering Excellence

    • Develop production-grade APIs/services (FastAPI, Flask, etc.)
    • Drive code quality, testing standards, and reusable architecture components
    • Ensure solutions are performance optimised (latency, cost, reliability)

    5. Governance, Safety & Evaluation

    • Implement LLM guardrails:
      • Hallucination control
      • Safety filters
      • Policy enforcement
    • Define evaluation frameworks:
      • Response quality metrics
      • RAG benchmarking
      • Human-in-the-loop validation

    6. Collaboration & Delivery Leadership

    • Partner with:
      • Data Engineering → pipelines, data quality, governance
      • MLOps → deployment, CI/CD, monitoring
      • Business/Product → use-case alignment
    • Drive end-to-end delivery ownership across multiple projects

    7. Technical Leadership Responsibilities (Critical Addition)

    • Mentor and guide junior engineers and project teams
    • Conduct technical reviews, solution walkthroughs, and code reviews
    • Support pre-sales / RFPs / solution proposals with architecture inputs
    • Drive reusable accelerators, frameworks, and COE assets
    • Stay ahead of industry evolution and help shape EXL’s GenAI strategy
    • Influence technology choice, design decisions, and roadmap planning

    Must-Have Skills

    Experience

    • 9–12 years total experience
    • 2–4+ years hands-on in LLM / GenAI delivery (production use cases)

    LLM / GenAI & Agentic Engineering

    • Strong hands-on experience with:
      • LLMs (Claude, OpenAI, etc.)
      • RAG pipelines and retrieval optimisation
      • GPT + Agentic AI implementation experience
    • Experience with:
      • LangChain, LangGraph, or similar frameworks
      • Agent orchestration and tool-calling architectures
    • Deep understanding of:
      • LLM limitations, evaluation, and optimisation strategies

    Core Engineering

    • Strong Python/Pyspark engineering expertise (production-grade development) with proven API integration experience
    • Deep data analysis experience and handling large volume of data
    • Fabric/Azure Databricks/Snowflake data engineering integration skills
    • Good exposure to:
      • Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)
      • SQL
      • Containers, CI/CD, monitoring

    Data / AI Foundations (Mandatory)

    Prior experience in one or more:

    • Data Engineering (ETL/ELT, pipelines, orchestration)
    • Data Science / ML lifecycle (especially NLP)
    • Analytics engineering / data products

    Leadership Capabilities

    • Experience leading solution design or small teams
    • Ability to translate business problems into AI solutions
    • Strong stakeholder communication and influencing skills

    Good-to-Have / Preferred

    • Fine-tuning approaches: LoRA / PEFT / prompt tuning
    • Experience with Azure AI stack (Azure OpenAI, AI Search)
    • Exposure to:
      • Enterprise security & data privacy in GenAI
      • Coding agents / autonomous agent frameworks

    Experience in insurance / BFSI domains (valuable for EXL use cases)

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