BAIN CAPITAL OVERVIEW
With approximately $225 billion of assets under management, Bain Capital is one of the world’s leading private investment firms. We create lasting impact for our investors, teams, businesses, and the communities in which we live. Over four decades we have strategically grown our platform to focus on Private Equity, Growth & Venture, Capital Solutions, Credit, and Real Assets. Today, our team includes 1,985+ employees in 24 offices on four continents.
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ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Data Engineer to join our Private Markets Data Team. This role will be responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of data engineering systems and governance processes, while contributing to the development of next-generation data solutions.
The ideal candidate is a well-rounded technologist with strong data engineering skills, hands-on programming experience, and a passion for building scalable, high-performance data systems. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and communicating complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
This position offers the opportunity to work closely with data product managers, business analysts, and business stakeholders, gaining exposure to the investment management process and contributing to systems that provide a competitive edge to our investment teams.
RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE
Design, develop, and maintain on-premises and cloud-based data ingestion and processing pipelines.
Administer and extend data engineering tools including Airflow, DBT Cloud, Snowflake, and Python.
Support and enhance the Data Governance process.
Develop production-quality code and data solutions supporting key business initiatives.
Conduct architecture and code reviews to ensure security, scalability, and quality across deliverables.
Collaborate with cloud migration, information security, and business analysis teams to design and deploy new applications and migrate existing systems to Airflow and cloud-native technologies.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to onshore and offshore team members.
Define and execute on a technical roadmap, identifying opportunities to improve processes, efficiency, and data quality.
Optimize data pipeline performance and improve overall runtime of jobs.
TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE
Proven experience building and maintaining on-premises and cloud-based data solutions.
Hands-on experience supporting SaaS, business-facing applications.
Comfortable using large language models (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT) day-to-day for data analysis and automation; working knowledge of prompt engineering and agentic / workflow-automation frameworks.
Familiarity with AI-assisted coding tools (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, or AI-native IDEs such as Cursor or Windsurf) and with extending AI through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and reusable skills is a plus.
Exposure to vector databases and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines (e.g., Pinecone, pgvector, or Snowflake Cortex Search) for…