General Information

Job Title
Senior Data Engineer
Job ID
100688
Work Areas
Technology & Engineering
Employment Type
Permanent Full-Time
Location(s)
Tokyo

Description & Requirements

WHAT MAKES US A GREAT PLACE TO WORK

We are proud to be consistently recognized as one of the world’s best places to work. We are currently the #1 ranked consulting firm on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list and have maintained a spot in the top four on Glassdoor’s list since its founding in 2009. Extraordinary teams are at the heart of our business strategy, but these don’t happen by chance. They require intentional focus on bringing together a broad set of backgrounds, cultures, experiences, perspectives, and skills in a supportive and inclusive work environment. We hire people with exceptional talent and create an environment in which every individual can thrive professionally and personally.


WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

You’ll join our Engineering experts within the AI, Insights & Solutions team. This team is part of Bain’s digital capabilities practice, which includes experts in analytics, engineering, product management, and design. In this multidisciplinary environment, you'll leverage deep technical expertise with business acumen to help clients tackle their most transformative challenges. You’ll work on integrated teams alongside our general consultants and clients to develop data-driven strategies and innovative solutions. Together, we create human-centric solutions that harness the power of data and artificial intelligence to drive competitive advantage for our clients. Our collaborative and supportive work environment fosters creativity and continuous learning, enabling us to consistently deliver exceptional results. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. Bain offers comprehensive benefits and flexible policies that are designed to support you, so you can thrive personally and professionally.


WHAT YOU’LL DO

As a Senior Data Engineer in AIS Data Engineering you will apply technical solutions to cutting-edge problems across various industries. You will be part of a diverse engineering team, participating in the full engineering life cycle. This includes designing, developing, optimizing, and deploying new data engineering solutions and infrastructure for the production scale of the world’s largest companies.

Develop data and software solutions to address large-scale enterprise challenges for Bain's clients, serving as the data engineer and expert within a cross-functional team.


  • Develop and maintain long-lasting products that support internal or client needs
  • Collaborate closely with general consulting teams to identify analytics solutions for client business problems and to execute those solutions
  • Collaborate with data engineering leaders to develop and advocate for modern data engineering concepts to both technical audiences and business stakeholders
  • Enable data and technology for data science, analytics, and other application use cases via data engineering
  • Transformations at scale including cleaning, enriching, de-duping, joining and correlated on structured, semi-structured or unstructured data
  • Implement new and innovative deployment techniques, tooling, and infrastructure automation within Bain and our clients
  • Participate in developing large scale data platforms and reusable building blocks
  • Participate in the full software development life cycle including designing, writing documentation and unit/integration tests, and conducting code reviews for data engineering solutions
  • Participate in infrastructure engineering for data ecosystem including development, testing, deployment and release
  • Provide technical guidance to external clients and internal stakeholders in Bain
  • Contribute to industry-leading innovations that translate into great impact for clients in case work
  • Stay current with emerging trends and technologies in cloud computing, data analysis, and software engineering
  • Travel is required (30%)


ABOUT YOU

Kindly submit your CV/resume in English only


Technical Skills and Knowledge:

  • Minimum 4 years of experience
  • Working knowledge (2+ years) of Python, Scala, C/C++, Java, C#, Go, or similar programming language
  • Experience developing data pipelines (Airflow, Beam, Luigy, Metaflow, Kubeflow or any other)
  • Experience (2+ years) of SQL or NoSQL databases: Databricks, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Hive, HBase, Teradata, Cassandra, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake
  • Experience with Cloud platforms and services (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.) or Kubernetes via Terraform automation
  • Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, Github Actions
  • Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, automated testing, object-oriented programming, performance complexity, and implications of computer architecture on software performance
  • Knowledge of agile development methodologies and principles
  • Relevant academic or industry experience in end-to-end data and software engineering within either/or product engineering or professional services organizations, including project setup, test cases, dependency, and build management


Interpersonal Skills:

  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to explain and discuss technicalities of solutions, algorithms and techniques with colleagues and clients from other disciplines
  • You think data first, and full stack second, but none of it scares you
  • Curiosity, proactivity and critical thinking
  • Ability to collaborate with people at all levels and with multi-office/region teams


Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field is a plus