Senior Data Engineer (AI)

We are looking for a motivated Senior Data Engineer (AI) who is willing to dive into the new project with a modern stack. If you’re driven by a curiosity to learn and a desire to produce meaningful results, please apply!Why Join ExadelWe’re an AI-first global tech company with 25+ years of engineering leadership, 2,000+ team members, and 500+ active projects powering Fortune 500 clients, including HBO, Microsoft, Google, and Starbucks.From AI platforms to digital transformation, we partner with enterprise leaders to build what’s next.What powers it all? Our people are ambitious, collaborative, and constantly evolving.About The ClientOur client is one of the Big Four accounting firms and the world’s largest professional services network. Headquartered in London, they operate in 150+ countries with 460,000+ professionals delivering excellence in audit, tax, consulting, and advisory.About The ProjectAs a Data Engineer, you’ll become a part of a cross-functional development team who is working with GenAI solutions for digital transformation across Enterprise Products.The prospective team you will be working with is responsible for the design, development, and deployment of innovative, enterprise technology, tools, and standard processes to support the delivery of tax services. The team focuses on the ability to deliver comprehensive, value-added, and efficient tax services to our clients. It is a dynamic team with professionals of varying backgrounds from tax technical, technology development, change management, and project management. The team consults and executes on a wide range of initiatives involving process and tool development and implementation including training development, engagement management, tool design, and implementation.Project Tech StackAzure Cloud, Microservices Architecture, .NET 8, ASP.NET Core services, Python, Mongo, Azure SQL, Angular 18, Kendo, GitHub Enterprise with CopilotWhat You’ll DoResponsible for the building, deployment, and maintenance of mission-critical analytics solutions that process terabytes of data quickly at big-data scalesPrepare and process complex datasets ready to use by Data ScienceProcess data for vector DBsEnsure real-time monitoring for data pipeline health and qualityImplement AI-specific security protocolsCollaborate with Data Science, DevOps and Security teamsWhat You Bring6+ years of background in data engineeringExperience coding in SQL/Python, with solid CS fundamentals including data structure and algorithm designHands-on implementation experience working with a combination of the following technologies: Hadoop, Map Reduce, Kafka, Hive, Spark, SQL and NoSQL data warehousesSkills in working with vector databases (Milvus, Postgres, etc.)Knowledge of Data Warehousing, design, implementation and optimizationPractice in Data Quality testing, automation and results visualizationCompetency in Azure cloud data platformKnowledge of embedding models and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architecturesStrong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a detail-oriented mindsetPragmatic approach to balancing process against flexibility in achieving objectivesExcellent organizational skills, including the capacity to self-manage, structure work, set priorities, and work to deadlinesExcellent troubleshooting and communication skillsNice to HaveUnderstanding of LLM pipelines, including data preprocessing for GenAI modelsExpertise deploying data pipelines for AI/ML workloads, ensuring scalability and efficiencyFamiliarity with model monitoring, feature stores (Feast, Vertex AI Feature Store), and data versioningExperience with CI/CD for ML pipelines (Kubeflow, MLflow, Airflow, SageMaker Pipelines)Understanding of real-time streaming for ML model inference (Kafka, Spark Streaming)Experience with supporting data scientists and complex statistical use cases highly desirableEnglish levelIntermediate+Legal & Hiring InformationExadel is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to inclusion across minority, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, and moreReasonable accommodations are available to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functionsPlease note: this job description is not exhaustive. Duties and responsibilities may evolve based on business needs