Senior Data Engineer

Company description

Zenith is a full-service media agency with capabilities and expertise across all channels and disciplines. Zenith is part of Publicis Media, the #1 media buying network in the Americas and #2 globally. As “The ROI Agency,” Zenith’s expertise lies in driving real, tangible business outcomes, not just media metrics, that will have a measurable effect on our clients’ business. Every investment we make has an ROI mindset—not just for our clients, but for our agency at large. We’re focused on driving the maximum value for our people, our capabilities and our media investments for some of the world’s leading brands.

Overview

Overview

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be focused on writing code and assembling large, complex sets of data using various technologies. You will be a part of the data processing team, focused on code optimization, in addition to other day-to-day responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Regular use of the AWS Redshift and Databricks

• Design, develop, validate, implement, and maintain end-to-end data engineering solutions

• Write application and database code based on business requirements or user stories, architectural requirements, and existing code.

• Design, develop, and enhance data models.

• Build complex data pipelines, and work to achieve high-quality data ingestion goals.

• Take ownership of complete data life cycle.

• Drive system performance of the data tier and the reliability of data feeds across the enterprise system.

• Modify and improve data engineering processes to handle ever-growing, highly-complex, and diverse data formats, sources, and pipelines.

• As part of the data processing team work on performance tuning and optimization, query optimization, index tuning, caching, buffer tuning and data archiving strategies.

• Proactively estimate and plan development work, track and report progress, and deliver work on schedule.

• Write ad-hoc queries based on schema knowledge for various application requirements

• Contribute to operational support documentation.

• Participate in weekly on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, or related field.

• Solid hands-on experience with AWS services: Redshift, S3, Lambda(nice to have).

• Python coding, code based API integration, and CLI experience is a plus.

• Cloud Data Engineering certifications from Coursera, Udemy, Udacity, edx, etc., is a plus

• Excellent communication skills. Ability to speak and write professionally. Ability and comfort with presenting work by phone or within small groups.

• Excellent customer service skills. Ability to service clients, partners and internal stakeholders by understand their needs, translating those needs into creative solutions, and delivering on those solutions with diligence and a sense of urgency.

• Self-motivated and a self-starter with strong ability to multitask projects/tasks effectively.

• Digital media experience, particularly experience working in ad tech industry with a data-centric role is a plus.

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Veterans Encouraged to Apply

Compensation Range: $76,000 - $90,000 annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 9/29/2025.

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