AI Data Pipeline Engineer

GEI Consultants, Inc.; Cary (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedules

Competitive benefits

Job summary

GEI Consultants, Inc. seeks a Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain data pipelines powering GEI’s AI solutions and digital initiatives.

You will ensure enterprise data is accessible, reliable, and governed so AI capabilities can be deployed at scale with confidence. The role focuses on hands-on data foundations, ingestion pipelines, data stores, quality controls, and support for retrieval patterns like RAG.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of data engineering experience with production pipelines.
• Python and SQL proficiency; PySpark preferred.
• Experience with Azure data services: ADF, Synapse, Data Lake, and SQL.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines that ingest, transform, and deliver enterprise data to AI solutions and business applications.
• Develop and manage integrations across enterprise data sources using APIs, Graph connectors, event-driven architectures, and batch/streaming patterns.
• Build and maintain data stores and indexing infrastructure that support retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and other AI consumption patterns.
• Implement data quality, validation, and lineage controls to ensure accuracy and trustworthiness of data feeding AI workflows.
• Support and optimize data models underpinning Power BI dashboards and AI-enabled analytics.
• Collaborate with AI Engineers to define data contracts and ensure pipeline outputs meet solution requirements for schema, latency, and freshness.
• Instrument data pipelines for monitoring, alerting, cost control, and performance optimization.
• Implement data governance and security controls including access management, encryption, and compliance with organizational data policies.

Skills

Data engineering

Python

SQL

Spark/PySpark

Data governance

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Data Lake Storage

Azure SQL

Cosmos DB

Databricks Delta Lake Unity Catalog

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Job description

GEI Consultants, Inc. seeks a Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain data pipelines powering GEI’s AI solutions and digital initiatives.

You will ensure enterprise data is accessible, reliable, and governed so AI capabilities can be deployed at scale with confidence. The role focuses on hands-on data foundations, ingestion pipelines, data stores, quality controls, and support for retrieval patterns like RAG.