Cloud Engineer

EXL; Dadri; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

EXL is seeking a Cloud AI Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize AI-ready data pipelines across GCP and Snowflake, aligning with data science and business teams.

You will develop scalable ETL workflows, generate synthetic datasets, build APIs, and contribute to production-grade data systems while focusing on performance, cost, and reliability.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of hands-on experience in data engineering, ETL development, and cloud-based data platforms.
• Strong experience building AI-ready data pipelines across GCP and Snowflake.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and cloud-native services for building scalable data systems.
• Experience developing APIs, backend services, and workflow orchestration components.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable AI-ready data pipelines across GCP, and Snowflake.
• Develop and optimize ETL workflows to ingest, transform, validate, and integrate structured data for analytics and AI solutions.
• Create and curate synthetic datasets that reflect real-world data patterns, edge cases, and business scenarios for AI model development and testing.
• Build APIs and backend workflows to enable seamless data access, integration, and orchestration for AI-driven applications.
• Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, product teams, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver reliable data solutions.
• Implement monitoring, quality checks, automation, and CI/CD practices to improve reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Optimize pipeline performance, storage, compute usage, and cloud costs across modern data platforms.

Skills

Data engineering

ETL development

Python

SQL

Cloud platforms

API development

Tools

GCP

Snowflake

Job description

As a Cloud AI Data Engineer, you will design, build, and optimize AI-ready data pipelines across GCP, and Snowflake. You will work closely with data science, engineering, and business teams to integrate structured data, create high-quality synthetic datasets, and support scalable AI solutions through robust ETL pipelines, APIs, and backend workflows. This role requires strong hands-on expertise in cloud-native data engineering, performance tuning, cost optimization, and production-grade data systems that enable advanced analytics and AI use cases.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable AI-ready data pipelines across GCP, and Snowflake.
• Develop and optimize ETL workflows to ingest, transform, validate, and integrate structured data for analytics and AI solutions.
• Create and curate synthetic datasets that reflect real-world data patterns, edge cases, and business scenarios for AI model development and testing.
• Build APIs and backend workflows to enable seamless data access, integration, and orchestration for AI-driven applications.
• Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, product teams, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver reliable data solutions.
• Implement monitoring, quality checks, automation, and CI/CD practices to improve reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Optimize pipeline performance, storage, compute usage, and cloud costs across modern data platforms.

Candidate Profile:

Required Qualification and Skills:

• 3–6 years of hands-on experience in data engineering, ETL development, and cloud-based data platforms.
• Strong experience building AI-ready data pipelines across GCP, and Snowflake.
• Expertise in designing and generating synthetic datasets that capture real-world patterns, anomalies, and edge cases.
• Strong hands‑on experience with ETL pipelines, structured data integration, data modeling, and data quality frameworks.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and cloud-native services for building scalable and production-ready data systems.
• Experience developing APIs, backend services, and workflow orchestration components that support AI and analytics solutions.
• Good understanding of performance tuning, pipeline scalability, cost optimization, and cloud resource management.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, version control, monitoring, logging, and automation practices in data engineering environments.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with technical teams, business stakeholders, and client-facing groups.

What we offer:

• EXL Analytics offers an exciting, fast paced and innovative environment, which brings together a group of sharp and entrepreneurial professionals who are eager to influence business decisions. From your very first day, you get an opportunity to work closely with highly experienced, world class analytics consultants.
• You can expect to learn many aspects of businesses that our clients engage in. You will also learn effective teamwork and time-management skills - key aspects for personal and professional growth
• Analytics requires different skill sets at different levels within the organization. At EXL Analytics, we invest heavily in training you in all aspects of analytics as well as in leading analytical tools and techniques.
• We provide guidance/ coaching to every employee through our mentoring program wherein every junior level employee is assigned a senior level professional as advisors.
• Sky is the limit for our team members. The unique experiences gathered at EXL Analytics sets the stage for further growth and development in our company and beyond.