Onshore Technical Lead

Technical Consultant Lead

Work Location- Remote- United States

US Salary Range- $89K-$115K

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and support multiple client engagements within the Life Insurance and Annuity domain.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, project managers, business analysts, and development teams to analyze business requirements and design effective technical solutions.
• Participate in project planning, estimation, and solution architecture discussions.
• Conduct design reviews and provide recommendations on application architecture, data flow, and system integration.
• Ensure adherence to Project Life Cycle Methodology, IT control policies, and corporate architecture standards.
• Prepare and maintain high-level and low-level technical design documents and specifications.
• Provide technical leadership to development and support teams across onshore and offshore locations.
• Drive code quality through code reviews, best practices, and development standards.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, and adoption of emerging technologies.
• Stay current with industry trends, technologies, and market developments related to Life Insurance and Annuity products.
• Must be able to understand and leverage latest AI capabilities via enterprise tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code and in-house Models to gain operational efficiency and high throughput.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Strong experience in Life Insurance, Annuity products, and Policy Administration Systems.
• Minimum 6+ years of experience in development, maintenance, and support projects involving Mainframe technologies, preferably COBOL, DB2/SQL, C#, and .NET.
• Minimum 6+ years of experience working with SQL databases.
• Strong understanding of Policy Administration System architecture and design principles.
• Experience working directly with clients and managing technical delivery across distributed teams.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Working knowledge of version control tools like Git.
• Working knowledge and understanding of AI tools and features like Skills, custom Agents, Custom instructions, MCP, hooks etc. for operational excellence with judicious token utilization
• Knowledge of emerging technologies and industry trends in the Life Insurance and Annuity sector.
• Experience with automation initiatives and modern software development practices.
• Professional certifications in Life Insurance, such as LOMA, are highly desirable.
• Bachelor's degree in technology or Master's Degree in Computer Applications

Technical Skills:

• COBOL and C#
• SQL
• .NET Framework
• Git and GitHub or any other Git Repository understanding
• API Design and Integration
• Technical Design Documentation
• Coding and Code Reviews
• GitHub Copilot and Claude Code
• Application Architecture and Solution Design
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong leadership and team management capabilities
• Self-motivated and results-oriented
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Ability to lead and influence large cross-functional teams

Soft Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong leadership and team management capabilities
• Self-motivated and results-oriented
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Ability to lead and influence large cross-functional teams

The posted range is the hiring range for this role — a subset of the broader range available to employees over time — and reflects base salary across our national hiring scale. Final offers are based on several factors, including the candidate's skills and experience, internal pay equity, work location, market conditions for the role, and the specific scope and responsibilities of the position. The top of the range is reserved for candidates who notably exceed the requirements; the lower end applies to those with less experience or fewer preferred qualifications. For positions based in higher-cost zones (e.g., California, New York, New Jersey), actual compensation may exceed the posted range; your recruiter will share specifics during the process.

Required Skills:

• Attention To Consistency
• Cloud DevOps
• Results Orientation
• Technical Architecture
• Working under Pressure

About Us:

EXL (NASDAQ: EXLS) is a leading data analytics and digital operations and solutions company. We partner with clients using a data and AI-led approach to reinvent business models, drive better business outcomes and unlock growth with speed. EXL harnesses the power of data, analytics, AI, and deep industry knowledge to transform operations for the world's leading corporations in industries including insurance, healthcare, banking and financial services, media and retail, among others. EXL was founded in 1999 with the core values of innovation, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect. We are headquartered in New York and have more than 54,000 employees spanning six continents. For more information, visit EXL never requires or asks for fees/payments or credit card or bank details during any phase of the recruitment or hiring process and has not authorized any agencies or partners to collect any fee or payment from prospective candidates. EXL will only extend a job offer after a candidate has gone through a formal interview process with members of EXL's Human Resources team, as well as our hiring managers.