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Role Overview EXL is looking for an experienced Assistant Vice President Snowflake Data Engineering to lead enterprise-scale data engineering and Snowflake modernization initiatives. The ideal candidate will combine strong Snowflake and data engineering expertise with enterprise architecture, people leadership, program ownership, stakeholder management, and business acumen. Key Responsibilities - Lead the architecture, development, modernization, and optimization of enterprise-scale data platforms built on Snowflake. - Define Snowflake data architecture, engineering standards, development frameworks, and best practices. - Lead teams responsible for data ingestion, ETL/ELT, data transformation, data modelling, data integration, and data products. - Design scalable Snowflake solutions for high-volume, complex, and business-critical workloads. - Drive migration and modernization of legacy data warehouses and platforms to Snowflake. - Own delivery across multiple projects/programs, including scope, timelines, quality, SLAs, risks, and resource planning. - Build, mentor, and manage high-performing data engineering teams. - Partner with senior business and technology stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions. - Drive Snowflake performance optimization, workload management, scalability, and cost optimization. - Establish strong practices around data quality, governance, security, lineage, monitoring, and operational excellence. - Drive automation across data engineering development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and support. - Evaluate and implement Snowflake capabilities and emerging data technologies to improve platform capabilities. - Contribute to solutioning, proposals, client presentations, and business development initiatives where required. Required Technical Skills - Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake and modern cloud data platforms. - Strong proficiency in SQL and data transformation. - Solid experience with Pyt .
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