EXL

Solution Architect – Data & AI Solutions

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
15+ years exp
Full-time
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Job Description

  • Key Responsibilities:

Presales & Client Engagement

  • Partner with sales and industry teams to design

client-ready demos, proof-of-concepts, and technical solution blueprints

.

  • Present complex architectures in a

clear, business-outcome-driven manner

to both executive and technical stakeholders.

  • Contribute to

RFP/RFI responses, solution proposals, and deal shaping

.

  • Act as a

trusted advisor

in client conversations, highlighting differentiators of Data & AI Solutions.

Solution Architecture & Demo Environments

  • Architect distributed, scalable, and resilient

data and AI platforms

for presales demonstrations.

  • Design

abstraction layers for multi-model AI orchestration

, including fallback logic, dynamic model switching, and cost control.

  • Lead implementation of

event-driven architectures

using messaging frameworks (Kafka, Pulsar, SQS, etc.) and state machines.

  • Build reusable,

industry-specific demo environments

leveraging hyperscaler services and data platforms.

Observability, Security & Compliance

  • Define and enforce

observability standards

for demo and enterprise environments (logging, tracing, telemetry, real-time alerting).

  • Implement

zero-trust security models

(RBAC/ABAC, IAM, OAuth2, encryption, API gateways).

  • Ensure all demo and client environments meet compliance standards such as

HIPAA, GDPR, SOC2

.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Work with

Product, Data Science, Engineering, and Governance teams

to align demos with business/regulatory needs.

  • Collaborate with IMUs (verticals) to build

domain-specific demo templates

(e.g., Insurance claims, Healthcare payment integrity, Banking KYC/fraud, Retail personalization).

  • Provide hands-on support to

engineering teams during delivery, troubleshooting, and performance tuning

.

Innovation & Technical Leadership

  • Stay ahead of

hyperscaler advancements, AI/ML frameworks, and orchestration patterns

.

  • Drive

technical due diligence, PoCs, and vendor/platform evaluations

.

  • Create technical artifacts (architecture diagrams, design patterns, runbooks).
  • Mentor presales engineers and junior architects in solution design and client presentation skills.
  • Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

  • Certifications preferred:

    • Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
    • Kubernetes / CNCF ecosystem.
  • Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, SAFe).

Skills & Experience

Must-Have Skills & Experience

15+ years

in software architecture, presales engineering, or enterprise data/AI platform design.

  • Hands-on expertise in
  • at least two hyperscaler platforms:

    • Azure (Fabric, Synapse, Data Factory, Azure ML, Power BI).
    • AWS (Redshift, Glue, S3, SageMaker, Lake Formation).
    • GCP (BigQuery, Dataplex, Vertex AI, Pub/Sub).
  • Proven experience architecting

distributed systems, microservices, and scalable AI/ML platforms

.

  • Strong knowledge of

Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata, Lineage, and DataOps

.

  • Expertise in

event-driven systems

and asynchronous workflows.

  • Hands-on with

observability stacks

(Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK).

  • Advanced programming with

Python (async), TypeScript/JavaScript, or Go

.

  • Familiarity with

Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio), serverless design patterns

.

  • Experience with

CI/CD automation, GitOps, Terraform, Helm

.

  • Strong presentation, storytelling, and client engagement skills.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience with

multi-tenant SaaS platforms

and usage-based billing.

  • Familiarity with

data mesh, knowledge graphs, and semantic interoperability

.

  • Knowledge of

frontend architecture patterns

(micro-frontends, data visualizations).

  • Experience building

presales demo or sandbox environments

.

Exposure to

agentic AI concepts and LLM-based orchestration

.

Presales & Client Engagement

  • Partner with sales and industry teams to design

client-ready demos, proof-of-concepts, and technical solution blueprints

.

  • Present complex architectures in a

clear, business-outcome-driven manner

to both executive and technical stakeholders.

  • Contribute to

RFP/RFI responses, solution proposals, and deal shaping

.

  • Act as a

trusted advisor

in client conversations, highlighting differentiators of Data & AI Solutions.

Solution Architecture & Demo Environments

  • Architect distributed, scalable, and resilient

data and AI platforms

for presales demonstrations.

  • Design

abstraction layers for multi-model AI orchestration

, including fallback logic, dynamic model switching, and cost control.

  • Lead implementation of

event-driven architectures

using messaging frameworks (Kafka, Pulsar, SQS, etc.) and state machines.

  • Build reusable,

industry-specific demo environments

leveraging hyperscaler services and data platforms.

Observability, Security & Compliance

  • Define and enforce

observability standards

for demo and enterprise environments (logging, tracing, telemetry, real-time alerting).

  • Implement

zero-trust security models

(RBAC/ABAC, IAM, OAuth2, encryption, API gateways).

  • Ensure all demo and client environments meet compliance standards such as

HIPAA, GDPR, SOC2

.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Work with

Product, Data Science, Engineering, and Governance teams

to align demos with business/regulatory needs.

  • Collaborate with IMUs (verticals) to build

domain-specific demo templates

(e.g., Insurance claims, Healthcare payment integrity, Banking KYC/fraud, Retail personalization).

  • Provide hands-on support to

engineering teams during delivery, troubleshooting, and performance tuning

.

Innovation & Technical Leadership

  • Stay ahead of

hyperscaler advancements, AI/ML frameworks, and orchestration patterns

.

  • Drive

technical due diligence, PoCs, and vendor/platform evaluations

.

  • Create technical artifacts (architecture diagrams, design patterns, runbooks).
  • Mentor presales engineers and junior architects in solution design and client presentation skills.
  • Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

  • Certifications preferred:

    • Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
    • Kubernetes / CNCF ecosystem.
  • Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, SAFe).

Skills & Experience

Must-Have Skills & Experience

15+ years

in software architecture, presales engineering, or enterprise data/AI platform design.

  • Hands-on expertise in
  • at least two hyperscaler platforms:

    • Azure (Fabric, Synapse, Data Factory, Azure ML, Power BI).
    • AWS (Redshift, Glue, S3, SageMaker, Lake Formation).
    • GCP (BigQuery, Dataplex, Vertex AI, Pub/Sub).
  • Proven experience architecting

distributed systems, microservices, and scalable AI/ML platforms

.

  • Strong knowledge of

Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata, Lineage, and DataOps

.

  • Expertise in

event-driven systems

and asynchronous workflows.

  • Hands-on with

observability stacks

(Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK).

  • Advanced programming with

Python (async), TypeScript/JavaScript, or Go

.

  • Familiarity with

Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio), serverless design patterns

.

  • Experience with

CI/CD automation, GitOps, Terraform, Helm

.

  • Strong presentation, storytelling, and client engagement skills.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience with

multi-tenant SaaS platforms

and usage-based billing.

  • Familiarity with

data mesh, knowledge graphs, and semantic interoperability

.

  • Knowledge of

frontend architecture patterns

(micro-frontends, data visualizations).

  • Experience building

presales demo or sandbox environments

.

Exposure to

agentic AI concepts and LLM-based orchestration

.

  • Key Responsibilities:

Presales & Client Engagement

  • Partner with sales and industry teams to design

client-ready demos, proof-of-concepts, and technical solution blueprints

.

  • Present complex architectures in a

clear, business-outcome-driven manner

to both executive and technical stakeholders.

  • Contribute to

RFP/RFI responses, solution proposals, and deal shaping

.

  • Act as a

trusted advisor

in client conversations, highlighting differentiators of Data & AI Solutions.

Solution Architecture & Demo Environments

  • Architect distributed, scalable, and resilient

data and AI platforms

for presales demonstrations.

  • Design

abstraction layers for multi-model AI orchestration

, including fallback logic, dynamic model switching, and cost control.

  • Lead implementation of

event-driven architectures

using messaging frameworks (Kafka, Pulsar, SQS, etc.) and state machines.

  • Build reusable,

industry-specific demo environments

leveraging hyperscaler services and data platforms.

Observability, Security & Compliance

  • Define and enforce

observability standards

for demo and enterprise environments (logging, tracing, telemetry, real-time alerting).

  • Implement

zero-trust security models

(RBAC/ABAC, IAM, OAuth2, encryption, API gateways).

  • Ensure all demo and client environments meet compliance standards such as

HIPAA, GDPR, SOC2

.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Work with

Product, Data Science, Engineering, and Governance teams

to align demos with business/regulatory needs.

  • Collaborate with IMUs (verticals) to build

domain-specific demo templates

(e.g., Insurance claims, Healthcare payment integrity, Banking KYC/fraud, Retail personalization).

  • Provide hands-on support to

engineering teams during delivery, troubleshooting, and performance tuning

.

Innovation & Technical Leadership

  • Stay ahead of

hyperscaler advancements, AI/ML frameworks, and orchestration patterns

.

  • Drive

technical due diligence, PoCs, and vendor/platform evaluations

.

  • Create technical artifacts (architecture diagrams, design patterns, runbooks).
  • Mentor presales engineers and junior architects in solution design and client presentation skills.
  • Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

  • Certifications preferred:

    • Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
    • Kubernetes / CNCF ecosystem.
  • Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, SAFe).

Skills & Experience

Must-Have Skills & Experience

15+ years

in software architecture, presales engineering, or enterprise data/AI platform design.

  • Hands-on expertise in
  • at least two hyperscaler platforms:

    • Azure (Fabric, Synapse, Data Factory, Azure ML, Power BI).
    • AWS (Redshift, Glue, S3, SageMaker, Lake Formation).
    • GCP (BigQuery, Dataplex, Vertex AI, Pub/Sub).
  • Proven experience architecting

distributed systems, microservices, and scalable AI/ML platforms

.

  • Strong knowledge of

Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata, Lineage, and DataOps

.

  • Expertise in

event-driven systems

and asynchronous workflows.

  • Hands-on with

observability stacks

(Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK).

  • Advanced programming with

Python (async), TypeScript/JavaScript, or Go

.

  • Familiarity with

Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio), serverless design patterns

.

  • Experience with

CI/CD automation, GitOps, Terraform, Helm

.

  • Strong presentation, storytelling, and client engagement skills.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience with

multi-tenant SaaS platforms

and usage-based billing.

  • Familiarity with

data mesh, knowledge graphs, and semantic interoperability

.

  • Knowledge of

frontend architecture patterns

(micro-frontends, data visualizations).

  • Experience building

presales demo or sandbox environments

.

Exposure to

agentic AI concepts and LLM-based orchestration

.

Presales & Client Engagement

  • Partner with sales and industry teams to design

client-ready demos, proof-of-concepts, and technical solution blueprints

.

  • Present complex architectures in a

clear, business-outcome-driven manner

to both executive and technical stakeholders.

  • Contribute to

RFP/RFI responses, solution proposals, and deal shaping

.

  • Act as a

trusted advisor

in client conversations, highlighting differentiators of Data & AI Solutions.

Solution Architecture & Demo Environments

  • Architect distributed, scalable, and resilient

data and AI platforms

for presales demonstrations.

  • Design

abstraction layers for multi-model AI orchestration

, including fallback logic, dynamic model switching, and cost control.

  • Lead implementation of

event-driven architectures

using messaging frameworks (Kafka, Pulsar, SQS, etc.) and state machines.

  • Build reusable,

industry-specific demo environments

leveraging hyperscaler services and data platforms.

Observability, Security & Compliance

  • Define and enforce

observability standards

for demo and enterprise environments (logging, tracing, telemetry, real-time alerting).

  • Implement

zero-trust security models

(RBAC/ABAC, IAM, OAuth2, encryption, API gateways).

  • Ensure all demo and client environments meet compliance standards such as

HIPAA, GDPR, SOC2

.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Work with

Product, Data Science, Engineering, and Governance teams

to align demos with business/regulatory needs.

  • Collaborate with IMUs (verticals) to build

domain-specific demo templates

(e.g., Insurance claims, Healthcare payment integrity, Banking KYC/fraud, Retail personalization).

  • Provide hands-on support to

engineering teams during delivery, troubleshooting, and performance tuning

.

Innovation & Technical Leadership

  • Stay ahead of

hyperscaler advancements, AI/ML frameworks, and orchestration patterns

.

  • Drive

technical due diligence, PoCs, and vendor/platform evaluations

.

  • Create technical artifacts (architecture diagrams, design patterns, runbooks).
  • Mentor presales engineers and junior architects in solution design and client presentation skills.
  • Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

  • Certifications preferred:

    • Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
    • Kubernetes / CNCF ecosystem.
  • Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, SAFe).

Skills & Experience

Must-Have Skills & Experience

15+ years

in software architecture, presales engineering, or enterprise data/AI platform design.

  • Hands-on expertise in
  • at least two hyperscaler platforms:

    • Azure (Fabric, Synapse, Data Factory, Azure ML, Power BI).
    • AWS (Redshift, Glue, S3, SageMaker, Lake Formation).
    • GCP (BigQuery, Dataplex, Vertex AI, Pub/Sub).
  • Proven experience architecting

distributed systems, microservices, and scalable AI/ML platforms

.

  • Strong knowledge of

Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata, Lineage, and DataOps

.

  • Expertise in

event-driven systems

and asynchronous workflows.

  • Hands-on with

observability stacks

(Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK).

  • Advanced programming with

Python (async), TypeScript/JavaScript, or Go

.

  • Familiarity with

Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio), serverless design patterns

.

  • Experience with

CI/CD automation, GitOps, Terraform, Helm

.

  • Strong presentation, storytelling, and client engagement skills.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience with

multi-tenant SaaS platforms

and usage-based billing.

  • Familiarity with

data mesh, knowledge graphs, and semantic interoperability

.

  • Knowledge of

frontend architecture patterns

(micro-frontends, data visualizations).

  • Experience building

presales demo or sandbox environments

.

Exposure to

agentic AI concepts and LLM-based orchestration

.

Technical Expertise

  • 6–12+ years as a

Senior Data Engineer

, Forward Deployment Engineer, or Platform Engineer.

  • Strong hands-on experience with

at least hyperscaler

(AWS or Azure or GCP).

  • Deep expertise in:

PySpark

, SQL, Python

Databricks / Snowflake

(one mandatory, both preferred)

  • Cloud data services (Kinesis, Glue, Redshift, Synapse, BigQuery, DataProc, etc.)
  • Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD
  • IAM, VPC, private networking, secrets, API management

Delivery & Client Facing Skills

  • Demonstrated ability to

work directly with client engineering teams

.

  • Comfortable running design discussions, debugging sessions, and deployment workshops.
  • Strong communication skills; able to simplify technical topics for business audiences.
  • Ability to operate independently with a

consulting mindset and ownership mentality

.

GenAI & Multi-Agent Curiosity

  • Exposure to LLMs, agent tooling (LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, etc.), or willingness to learn fast.
  • Strong interest in how AI can automate data engineering and governance.

Mindset & Attributes

  • “Can-do” attitude; thrives in ambiguity.
  • Fast learner; bias for action.
  • Team player who collaborates across product, engineering, and client teams.
  • Customer-first orientation and passion for delivering measurable outcomes.

Key Requirements & Skills

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • Certifications preferred: Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP). Kubernetes / CNCF ecosystem.
  • Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, SAFe).
  • 15+ years in software architecture, presales engineering, or enterprise data/AI platform design.
  • Hands-on expertise in at least two hyperscaler platforms: Azure (Fabric, Synapse, Data Factory, Azure ML, Power BI). AWS (Redshift, Glue, S3, SageMaker, Lake Formation). GCP (BigQuery, Dataplex, Verte
  • Proven experience architecting distributed systems, microservices, and scalable AI/ML platforms.
  • Strong knowledge of Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata, Lineage, and DataOps.
  • Expertise in event-driven systems and asynchronous workflows.
  • Hands-on with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK).
  • Advanced programming with Python (async), TypeScript/JavaScript, or Go.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio), serverless design patterns.
  • Experience with CI/CD automation, GitOps, Terraform, Helm.
  • Strong presentation, storytelling, and client engagement skills.
  • Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms and usage-based billing.
  • Familiarity with data mesh, knowledge graphs, and semantic interoperability.
  • Knowledge of frontend architecture patterns (micro-frontends, data visualizations).
  • Experience building presales demo or sandbox environments.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • Certifications preferred: Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP). Kubernetes / CNCF ecosystem.
  • Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, SAFe).
  • 15+ years in software architecture, presales engineering, or enterprise data/AI platform design.
  • Hands-on expertise in at least two hyperscaler platforms: Azure (Fabric, Synapse, Data Factory, Azure ML, Power BI). AWS (Redshift, Glue, S3, SageMaker, Lake Formation). GCP (BigQuery, Dataplex, Verte
  • Proven experience architecting distributed systems, microservices, and scalable AI/ML platforms.
  • Strong knowledge of Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata, Lineage, and DataOps.
  • Expertise in event-driven systems and asynchronous workflows.
  • Hands-on with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK).
  • Advanced programming with Python (async), TypeScript/JavaScript, or Go.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, service mesh (Istio), serverless design patterns.
  • Experience with CI/CD automation, GitOps, Terraform, Helm.
  • Strong presentation, storytelling, and client engagement skills.

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Solution Architect – Data & AI Solutions

EXL · Bengaluru