Data Engineer for AI-Driven Data Platform (Pipelines & APIs)

Bain & Company; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Bain & Company in Albuquerque seeks a Data Engineer to join Coro, Bain's data platform. You will design, build, and operate Python-based data pipelines and APIs, collaborating with analytics, engineering, and business teams to deliver reliable data products.

The role emphasizes production-grade code, testing, CI/CD, and cloud deployment, with a focus on data quality and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using modern tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Strong, idiomatic Python: data structures, typing, error handling, generators/iterators, context managers, and the standard library.
• Software engineering fundamentals: modular design, dependency management, packaging, semantic versioning, and API design.
• Testing discipline: pytest, fixtures, mocking, and writing code that is testable by construction.
• Working knowledge of SQL, data modeling, governance, and privacy practices sufficient to design sound schemas and query them effectively.
• Able to explain technical trade-offs to both technical and business audiences.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain batch and streaming pipelines in Python, including the orchestration, scheduling, and monitoring around them.
• Write reusable, well-typed Python libraries and internal packages that other engineers and analysts build on.
• Build Python services and APIs that expose data to downstream applications, and integrate with third-party and internal APIs.
• Write unit, integration, and data-contract tests, and keep pipelines covered by automated CI.
• Profile and optimize Python code and data processing jobs for runtime, memory, and cost.
• Deploy and operate code in the cloud using containers, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD.
• Enforce access controls, secrets handling, and sensitive-data protections at every stage of the data lifecycle.
• Find and fix efficiency, reliability, cost, and correctness problems in existing code and pipelines, and refactor toward simpler designs.
• Replace one-off scripts and notebooks with tested, packaged, scheduled code.
• Implement data quality checks, validation, and monitoring that catch issues before consumers do.

Job description

Bain & Company in Albuquerque seeks a Data Engineer to join Coro, Bain's data platform. You will design, build, and operate Python-based data pipelines and APIs, collaborating with analytics, engineering, and business teams to deliver reliable data products.

The role emphasizes production-grade code, testing, CI/CD, and cloud deployment, with a focus on data quality and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using modern tools.