Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.
Job Overview:
We are looking for a hands-on AI & Data Engineer with 6+ years of overall experience to accelerate the delivery of AI-driven analytics for front-office trading teams. This role is ideal for an experienced consultant who thrives in fast‑paced trading environments, can work independently, and is comfortable owning solutions end‑to‑end—from rapid prototyping to production‑hardened delivery.
Location: Bangalore (Hybrid)
Mandatory Skills:
- Strong, hands‑on experience with Databricks and Apache Spark.
- Advanced expertise in PySpark and SQL.
- Proven data engineering consulting experience (ingestion, modeling, performance).
- Solid foundation in statistics, econometrics, and time‑series analysis.
- Practical experience delivering LLM‑based or AI analytics solutions.
- Experience working in trading, financial services, or commodity markets is highly preferred.
- Comfortable operating independently in a delivery‑oriented role.
Key Skills:
Data Engineering (Databricks & Azure)
- Build and optimize scalable, reusable data pipelines using:
- PySpark / Spark SQL
- Delta Lake and Unity Catalog
- Ingest and process live/streaming and batch market data.
- Ensure high performance, cost efficiency, data quality, and reliability.
Apply best practices for data modelling, partitioning, and performance tuningPreferred
LLM & Agentic AI Implementation
- Implement LLM‑based analytics workflows, including:
- Prompt engineering
- Retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG)
- Agent orchestration using LangGraph
- Tool calling and API integrations (MCP or similar)
- Integrate AI workflows with market data, analytics services, and internal tools.
- Apply guardrails, logging, and observability to AI solutions.
Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Skills Required
- Strong, hands-on experience with Databricks and Apache Spark
- Advanced expertise in PySpark and SQL
- Proven data engineering consulting experience
- Solid foundation in statistics, econometrics, and time-series analysis
- Practical experience delivering LLM-based or AI analytics solutions
- Experience working in trading or financial services
Orion Innovation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Orion Innovation and has not been reviewed or approved by Orion Innovation.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Orion highlights health and well-being initiatives such as fitness, mindfulness, and flexibility/remote options, reinforced by recognition like Cigna’s Healthy Workforce Designation. Flexibility via hybrid/remote work is positioned as a consistent part of the overall rewards experience.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is characterized as moderately satisfactory overall, with pockets where compensation is viewed as fair, particularly for some software engineering and certain U.S. roles. Public snapshots also indicate that competitiveness can be stronger in specific markets and functions.
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Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards — Performance-linked outcomes are implied through mentions that hikes can be good when performance is demonstrated. Learning and development programs are also emphasized as part of the broader value proposition tied to career growth.
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What We Do
Orion is a leading digital transformation and product development services firm. Headquartered in Edison, NJ, we have a global team of 6,200+ associates, with engineers in 14 major delivery centers across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. For over 25 years, Orion has been solving complex business problems for our clients. Our transformative business solutions are rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, empowering our clients to operate with agility at scale. Our mission is to serve as an agile and trusted partner for business transformation initiatives, providing deep emerging technology, experience design, and domain expertise. Our business has more than tripled over the last three years. We have grown aggressively both organically and inorganically, adding new clients, complementary skills, domain expertise, and strengthening our global footprint.
