Data Engineer
- Salary
- $92,800 - $109,200
- Level
- Junior
- Work type
- Hybrid · Chicago
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 3 October 2026.
About the role
Are you ready to make an impact?
West Monroe is seeking a talented Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering & Analytics team. In this role, you will collaborate with our clients to address their most complex needs, working alongside a team of highly skilled engineers and architects. You will also be involved in strategic enterprise data projects and large-scale implementations.
Responsibilities:
- Support projects leveraging an agile delivery model through requirements gathering and documentation, data ingestion pipeline development, and technical testing.
- Contribute to project delivery in the following ways:
- Add configurations for data enrichments such as lookups, type conversions, calculations, and concatenations
- Add data quality rules
- Connect to new data sources
- Map multiple sources into a single output
- Interpret error messages to troubleshoot data pipelines
- Create outputs that facilitate reporting, dashboarding, and semantic modeling for tools such as Tableau and Power BI
- Test data pipelines to ensure accuracy
- Work closely with our clients as part of the development team to gather technical requirements and develop solutions
- Coordinate activities with data source application owners to understand the underlying data, ensure integration and data integrity
- Build relationships with clients through written and verbal communication
Qualifications:
- 1 - 4 years of hands-on professional development experience
- Experience writing complex SQL queries related to data manipulation strategies
- Experience with Spark, Databricks, Kafka, Kinesis, Hadoop, and/or Lambda
- Exposure using ETL tools (Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, Informatica, Talend, IBM DataStage, etc.), and/or database platforms (Snowflake, Redshift, Azure Synapse, or Oracle)
- Exposure to data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker)
- Experience in technical testing, issue identification and resolution
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to travel 30 to 50% to client sites
- Hybrid role - 2 days a week in office
Based on pay transparency guidelines, the salary range for this role can vary based on your proximity to one of our West Monroe offices (see table below). Information on our competitive total rewards package, including our bonus structure and benefits is here. Individual salaries are determined by evaluating a variety of factors including geography, experience, skills, education, and internal equity.
Employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, purchase shares from our employee stock ownership program and be eligible to receive annual bonuses. Employees will also receive unlimited flexible time off and ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Eligibility for ten weeks of paid parental leave will also be available upon hire date.
West Monroe's standard text
Seattle or Washington, D.C.
$92,800—$109,200 USD
Los Angeles
$97,200—$114,400 USD
New York City or San Francisco
$101,700—$119,600 USD
A location not listed above
West Monroe's standard text
$88,400—$104,000 USD
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At West Monroe, we work with you.
We’re a global business and technology consulting firm passionate about creating measurable value for our clients, delivering real-world solutions.
The combination of business and technology is not new, but how we bring them together is unique. We’re fluent in both. We know that technology alone is not the answer, but how we apply it is. We rely on data to constantly adapt and solve new challenges. Actions that work today with outcomes that generate value for years to come.
At West Monroe, we zero in on the heart of the opportunity, getting to results faster and preparing people for what’s next.
You’ll feel the difference in how we work. We show up personally. We’re right there in the room with you, co-creating through the challenges. With West Monroe, collaboration isn’t a lofty promise, but a daily action. We work together with you to turn vision into clear action with lasting impact.
West Monroe is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
We believe in treating each employee and applicant for employment fairly and with dignity. We base our employment decisions on merit, experience, and potential, without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic prohibited by federal, state or local law. To learn more about diversity, equity and inclusion at West Monroe, visit www.westmonroe.com/inclusion. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in our recruiting process, please inquire by sending an email to recruiting@westmonroe.com.
Please review our current policy regarding use of generative artificial intelligence during the application process. Additionally, West Monroe uses the BrightHire platform to record live interviews so our team can capture notes more accurately, stay focused on the conversation, and continually improve our interview process. You can review our privacy notice for more information about this process and how recordings are used. If you have any questions, reach out to recruiting@westmonroe.com.
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What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Hadoop · Kafka · Kinesis · Looker · Oracle · Power BI · Redshift · Tableau
Rare in West Monroe's other 60 open postings.
Standard for data engineering roles
AWS · Azure · ETL · SQL · Snowflake · Spark
Common in data engineering postings at any company.
54% of this description is written for the role. The rest is West Monroe's standard text, folded away below.
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The team: Technology & Experience HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 33 open in Technology & Experience. 4 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in July: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Generative AI (21 of 33), Azure (19 of 33), AWS (17 of 33), GCP (15 of 33), LLM (15 of 33), Machine Learning (15 of 33), Databricks (14 of 33)
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Salary context
66 other open postings titled Data Engineer state a salary: median USD 130,000 to USD 180,050 a year.
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