The Co-operative Bank of Kenya is recruiting a Data Engineer for its technology team, to build the data pipelines and reusable data products that feed the bank’s analytics and artificial intelligence platforms. It suits data engineers with production pipeline experience who want to work on data foundations for AI in a large regulated institution.
At a glance
- Duty station: Nairobi, Kenya (the bank’s advert does not name a duty station)
- Team: Technology
- Reference: DE/IID/2026
- Deadline: Monday 9 November 2026 (the advert gives no time; we show 11:59 PM EAT, so apply earlier)
About the role
Co-op Bank is strengthening its data capabilities so that analytics, AI and day-to-day operations rest on trusted, well-governed data. The Data Engineer designs, builds and runs the pipelines that bring approved source data into the bank’s data and AI platforms, including documents, text and voice for generative AI, and keeps them reliable, secure and well documented.
Key responsibilities
- Build and maintain batch, streaming and real-time data pipelines into the bank’s data and AI platforms
- Create reusable data products and feature sets for reporting, analytics and AI
- Put data quality, reconciliation, metadata, lineage and monitoring controls in place
- Apply security, privacy, access and retention rules, in line with Kenya’s Data Protection Act, 2019
- Tune pipelines for performance, reliability, cost and recovery
- Work with business data owners to turn their needs into datasets
- Use source control, automated testing and CI/CD; monitor production and resolve incidents
- Build ingestion pipelines for unstructured data to support generative AI and vector databases
Qualifications and experience
- A bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, engineering, data science, mathematics or a related field
- At least four years in data engineering, ETL/ELT, database engineering or big data
- Hands-on experience with production pipelines and curated analytical datasets
- Strong SQL, plus Python, Scala or a similar language
- A certification in data engineering, cloud data platforms, databases or analytics, and experience in banking or another regulated data setting, are advantages
How to apply
Email a cover letter and a detailed CV to jobs@co-opbank.co.ke, quoting the reference DE/IID/2026, by Monday 9 November 2026.
Source: Co-operative Bank of Kenya careers page. Co-op Bank is one of Kenya’s largest commercial banks, owned in large part by the country’s co-operative movement.