Associate - AI Data Engineer (Retail)

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## About the role Bain & Company’s Retail Center of Expertise partners with global Retail Practice leadership and client teams to deliver proprietary Retail products and solutions. The Associate‑AI Data Engineer will join a multidisciplinary team of Directors, Managers, Project Leads, Associates and Analysts, working on projects ranging from a few weeks to several months. You will help build AI‑driven analytics that address strategic questions around category management, COGS optimization, pricing, promotion, and customer insights. ## What you’ll do - Design, build, and deploy agentic AI systems and LLM‑powered applications that automate complex analytical workflows for retail clients. - Develop multi‑agent workflows using frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, and Azure AI Agent Service, integrating tools, memory, and reasoning loops. - Build and optimise retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) pipelines with vector search, Neo4j knowledge graphs and other graph databases. - Engineer backend APIs (Python, FastAPI) to serve AI models and agents in production, implementing observability, logging and drift monitoring. - Create CI/CD pipelines with Docker, Git and cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, AWS) for continuous deployment. - Write complex data transformation scripts using SQL, Pandas or PySpark to handle large‑scale datasets. - Collaborate with product managers, software developers and consulting teams to translate business problems into scalable AI solutions. ## Required qualifications - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field. - 2–4 years of experience in AI engineering, software development and production AI systems. - Hands‑on experience with agentic AI frameworks (LangGraph, LangChain, Azure AI Agent Service) and LLM‑powered applications. - Proficiency in Python, FastAPI, Docker, CI/CD and cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, AWS). - Strong skills in data manipulation using Pandas, SQL or PySpark; familiarity with vector databases and knowledge graphs. - Experience with prompt engineering, model evaluation, guardrails and responsible‑AI practices. - Good communication skills and a collaborative mindset; exposure to consulting projects or retail domain is a plus. ## Benefits Bain & Company is consistently ranked among the world’s best places to work, recognized for its diversity, inclusion and social responsibility. Employees enjoy a supportive environment that encourages learning, mentorship and career growth, along with competitive compensation, health benefits, flexible work arrangements and opportunities to contribute to high‑impact client projects.

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