Senior Data Engineer - (Talent Pool / Future Opportunities)
Summary
Build and maintain robust data pipelines, implement automated quality checks, and ensure reliable data for downstream systems using Python/TypeScript, SQL, and AWS while collaborating with AI coding agents.
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Senior Data Engineer
Location: [Fully remote]
.Monks Technology Services, part of Media.Monks and S4 Capital, is a global consulting firm mastering AI-powered transformations for the Fortune 100. We combine long-term strategic thinking, deep enterprise experience, and a human-centered approach to help clients transform business processes and dominate their industries.
As part of our commitment to inclusion and in compliance with Law 2466 of 2025 from Colombia, we have available spaces for people with disabilities.
About the Role
As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll build reliable ingestion and transformation pipelines, implement automated quality checks, and ensure downstream systems can trust the data they depend on. Working within a .Monks delivery team, you’ll collaborate with clients, engineers, and product teams while using AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex as part of your everyday workflow.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain ingestion and transformation pipelines across diverse data sources
- Develop automated validation and integrity checks that identify data issues early
- Model and move data across relational and analytical stores to support reliable downstream systems
- Monitor pipeline health and troubleshoot data quality and performance issues
- Design pipelines that are reliable, scalable, and observable
- Review human- and AI-generated code for quality, correctness, and consistency
- Collaborate with engineers and product teams to define and implement data quality standards
- Communicate data quality risks and technical concepts clearly to clients and non-technical stakeholders
- Identify and resolve the root causes of pipeline and data integrity issues
- Use AI coding agents to accelerate engineering workflows while maintaining high quality standards
- Other duties as assigned
About You
Qualifications & Skills
- 5+ years of relevant experience in data engineering or backend engineering
- Advanced proficiency in at least one core language, preferably TypeScript/Node.js or Python
- Strong SQL and data modeling skills across relational and analytical data stores
- Solid understanding of data ingestion, ETL, transformation, and pipeline architecture
- Experience designing scalable data validation, integrity, and quality checks
- Experience building and operating data solutions on AWS
- Fluency working alongside AI coding agents, such as Claude Code or Codex, and reviewing AI-generated code
- Rigorous approach to data correctness, reliability, and observability
- Strong ownership mindset and practical root-cause problem-solving skills
- Strong English communication skills, including the ability to explain data quality concepts to non-specialists
- Ability to collaborate effectively with clients, engineers, and product teams
- Comfort working in a fast-paced, agile consulting environment
.Monks Technology Services does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic
About Monks
Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc, where our culture centers on how we show up for the work and for one another. That begins with the commitment to strive for mastery—taking deep pride in our craft and creating work that sets the bar. In everyday execution, we drive momentum by choosing bold action rather than waiting for certainty. Above all, our teams are stronger together, bringing diverse perspectives into a unified team that communicates with clarity, trust, and mutual respect.
This commitment to craft and innovation translates directly into widespread industry acclaim: Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services and a leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Digital Marketing Agencies. It ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization (2025), Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2026 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in the Human-Machine Interaction Team category. Additionally, Monks.Flow earned AI-based Marketing Solution of the Year at the 2026 AI Breakthrough Awards and a 2026 Global Generative AI Award in the Agentic Marketing Innovation category. Finally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.
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