Zeno Group is the fiercely independent and global, integrated communications agency, born from PR. We bring together the boldest and brightest talent to help clients across industries and sectors unleash the power of strategic communications. Guided by our "Fearless Pursuit of the Unexpected," we push the boundaries to achieve real business value and societal impact for clients. Winner of the industry’s most coveted awards including the 2024 PRWeek U.S. Outstanding Large Agency of the Year, 2023 PRWeek Purpose Agency of the Year, 2022 PRWeek Global Agency of the Year, 2022 PRovoke Best Large Agency to Work For in North America and a three-time winner of PRWeek’s Best Places to Work. Zeno has also been previously recognized by the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Zeno is a DJE Holdings Company.

Job Description:

Data Engineer

Zeno Group is hiring a data engineer to join our team. This role reports into Zeno's AI & Innovation practice and works closely with our Data & Intelligence (D&I) team daily.

Zeno's D&I team performs both internal and client-facing data work and has built strong workflows to support it. We're investing in data engineering to take those workflows further: migrating to a new architecture, building reusable pipelines, and scaling what works across more clients.

You're joining active, revenue-generating client work with clear opportunities to improve how data moves through the organization.

This is also a role with influence. As the first dedicated data engineer at Zeno, you'll shape the tools, architecture, and practices that define how the organization works with data going forward.

We already have strong operational data workflows in place. This role focuses on scaling and modernizing that foundation into a more centralized, AI-ready architecture.

The team you're joining

AI & Innovation is a small team building a new practice inside a large organization. We move fast, cover a lot of ground, and hold ourselves to a high standard. A few things define how we work.

Craft over speed. We optimize for doing things well. AI and automation save us real time, and we reinvest those hours into workthat's more durable and more useful. A pipeline that's clean, well-documented, and built to last is worth more than one that shipped yesterday and breaks next week.

Build what others can't access. We license tools when they solve the problem. But the work that differentiates Zeno is built in-house: proprietary data systems, AI products, and infrastructure that our clients and teams can't get anywhere else. You're rebuilding Zeno's data layer for where it needs to go next, not maintaining someone else's platform.

Makers who can hold a room. This role isn't heads-down-only. You'll be in architecture conversations, working through migration decisions with the DevOps team, and sitting across from analysts who need you to understand their client context before you build anything. We look for people who are strong technically and comfortable communicating what they know to people who don't share their vocabulary.

Radical visibility. We're a small team with outsized scope. There's no room to go quiet. We surface our work as we go, share what we're stuck on, flag when we have capacity, and keep each other in the loop without being asked. If you're the kind of personwho finishes something and immediately shares it with the team, you'll thrive here. If you prefer to disappear into your work and surface only when it's done, this isn't the right fit.

About the Role

• Transition data infrastructure to a modern architecture built around AWS.
• Improve and scale existing client data pipelines while keeping client deliverables running smoothly.
• Support the Snowflake migration by documenting current schemas, validating that the new architecture preserves existing functionality, and testing with real client data.

• Build the data layer for AI products, including ingestion pipelines, APIs, and programmatic access layers that connect data sources