Data Engineer

EXL; Pune District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

EXL is seeking a senior Databricks and Azure platform expert to design, implement, and evolve enterprise-scale data and analytics platforms. The role focuses on secure, resilient, scalable solutions aligned to business and regulatory requirements.

You will provide technical leadership for Databricks platform architecture, governance, and security, and collaborate with internal teams to ensure ongoing reliability and knowledge transfer.

Qualifications

• Senior Databricks and Azure platform expertise across enterprise-scale data and analytics platforms.
• Experience with Azure Databricks, ADLS Gen2, Azure networking, identity management and cloud security patterns.
• Ability to align solutions with business, regulatory and operational requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead Databricks platform architecture and workspace design.
• Ensure platform resilience, performance and operational excellence.
• Lead platform governance and security controls implementation.
• Provide ongoing platform support and knowledge transfer.

Skills

Databricks

Azure

Platform architecture

CI/CD integration

Security controls

Access management

Entra ID

RBAC

Capacity planning

Performance tuning

Incident management

Data protection

Regulatory compliance

Tools

ADLS Gen2

Azure networking

Job description

Provide senior Databricks and Azure platform expertise to design, implement and evolve enterprise-scale data and analytics platforms, ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, scalable and aligned to business, regulatory and operational requirements. The resource should have deep experience across Azure Databricks, ADLS Gen2, Azure networking, identity management and cloud security patterns.

• Provide technical leadership for the Databricks platform architecture, including workspace design, cluster strategy, data storage architecture, security controls, CI/CD integration, environment management and platform engineering best practices to support current and future business demand.
• Ensure platform resilience, performance and operational excellence through proactive monitoring, capacity planning, cost optimisation, performance tuning, incident management and root cause analysis across development, test and production
• Lead the implementation of platform governance and security controls, including access management, Entra ID integration, RBAC, network isolation, private connectivity, auditability, data protection and compliance with enterprise architecture and regulatory standards.
• Provide ongoing platform support and technical stewardship, working alongside internal engineering teams to resolve complex technical issues, improve platform reliability, establish operational standards and ensure effective knowledge transfer and long-term