No C2C please Must be located in the SE Michigan area Technical Leader Overview The Technical Leader (tech lead) will provide technical support for the Agile Development Team in their efforts to create Consumable Data Sets (CDS) using Azure Cloud data via Databricks (DBX) and PowerBI cloud reports. They serve the team but also will take on some development tasks as time allows. Requirements 1. Experience in working with big data in a cloud environment (Azure-Databricks) 1. Experience with PowerBI and Cognos visualization tools (PowerBI Pro experience is a plus) 1. Agile development experience 1. Experience writing advanced SQL Tech Leader Duties Provide Operational and Technical Leadership for the Agile Development Team a. Assist the team with development needs and/or questions b. Knowledge in Data Engineering with DataBricks, Hadoop and spark SQL to ensure code is optimized as per request if needed. c. Review BI product to ensure that the requirements are met d. Validate data e. Quick Daily Stand up and see any Open issues or blockers team is facing f. Responsible to ensure the EXL team is following processes as defined by the Team and Tech leaders (updating task hours, updating task description and status). g. Recognize when EXL development team needs to collaborate on user stories or issues on their own (try to find own solution before announcing in DSU). Participate in New requirements /pre-refinement, refinement sessions with business requestors leads and EXL Contractors a. Support the Product Manager, Scrum Leader, and Architect with requirements b. Set up meetings and take notes c. Knowledge sharing with the team Enable User Acceptance Testing a. Review product that are ready to test b. Set up meetings with the requestor, business owner, and their delegates to introduce the product and begin UAT c. Follow up to ensure UAT is complete Coaches team in best practices a. Support the Agile Framework by identifying anti-patterns and working with the scrum master to coach the team in best agile practices b. Support DE and BI deployments (Build /release pipeline) c. Version control is maintained in development d. Documentation is stored in the GitHub or appropriate location (Mapping / Tech doc). e. All testing and validation should first peer review by Tech Lead 1. Provides Development support as part of the team a. Develops CDS and BI reports 1. After-hours Operational Support a. Monitoring all intraday reports after noon ET b. Take any actions necessary due to morning report issues Conducts quarterly usage audits a. Identifies the number of unique users and report executions and provides recommendations to management on low usage reports