Senior Data Engineer

Quanex Building Products Corp.; Houston, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent Bonus Potential

Paid Time Off, Training & Holidays

Tuition Assistance

Wellness/Fitness Resources

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Dynamic Culture & People

Job summary

Quanex is seeking a Sr. Data Engineer to join our Houston team. The role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and architectures that support enterprise reporting, analytics, and integration needs.

You will own the full data lifecycle from ingestion to transformation, storage, and consumption to enable business insights. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in data engineering, strong SQL, and experience with ETL/ELT tools, data modeling, and cloud platforms such as

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or related roles.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest data from ERPs, applications, APIs, and external sources.

Skills

Advanced SQL

ETL/ELT

Data warehousing

Data modeling

Azure

Databricks

ERP familiarity

Big data

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Data Science/Engineering

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Microsoft Fabric

Databricks

Spark

Job description

Quanex is looking for aSr. Data Engineer to join our team located inHouston, Texas.

The Sr. Data Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and architectures that support enterprise reporting, analytics, and integration needs. This role ensures reliable, high-quality data flows across systems and owns the full data lifecycle-from ingestion to transformation, storage, and consumption- enabling business insights and data-driven decision-making.

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future employer sponsorship. Quanex will not provide sponsorship for this position. Candidates must also be local to Houston, as relocation will not be offered for this position.

We Offer You!

• Excellent Bonus Potential
• Paid Time Off, Training & Holidays
• Charitable Contribution Match Program
• Tuition Assistance
• Wellness/Fitness Resources
• Training & Professional Development
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Dynamic Culture & People - just to name a few!

What's attractive about the Sr. Data Engineer position?

• Drive Impact Through Data
• Collaborate Across the Business
• Thrive in a Fast-Paced Environment

What Success Looks Like:

• Design, build, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest data from ERPs, applications, APIs, and external sources.
• Own and manage the full data lifecycle: ingestion, transformation, storage, modeling, and consumption.
• Develop and optimize complex SQL queries, stored procedures, and data transformations for large-scale datasets.
• Design and maintain scalable data models for Data Warehouse and Data Lake environments (star/snowflake schemas).
• Integrate data across multiple systems (ERPs, APIs, flat files, third-party tools) ensuring consistency and reliability.
• Collaborate with integration teams to align data pipelines with enterprise architecture (integration layers, APIs, middleware).
• Implement data quality, validation, and monitoring frameworks across all stages of the data lifecycle.
• Optimize data pipelines, queries, and storage for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Troubleshoot data issues and ensure timely resolution of data-related incidents.
• Partner with BI developers, analysts, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality data solutions.

What You Bring:

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or related roles.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical field required.
• Advanced SQL expertise (complex joins, window functions, query optimization, indexing strategies, performance tuning).
• Strong experience with ETL/ELT tools and frameworks.
• Deep understanding of data lifecycle management (ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, and consumption).
• Strong experience with data integration patterns (APIs, batch processing, streaming, middleware).
• Proficiency in data modeling (star/snowflake schemas, normalization vs denormalization).
• Experience with Data Warehousing and Data Lake architectures.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred).
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, or similar tools.
• Familiarity with ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite).
• Experience with financial data and reconciliation processes.
• Exposure to big data technologies (Spark, Databricks).
• Understanding of EDI or structured data exchange formats.
• Experience implementing data governance and data quality frameworks.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail with strong focus on data quality and integrity.
• Ability to understand and manage end-to-end data flows across systems.
• Strong collaboration across technical and business teams.
• Ownership mindset with proactive issue resolution.
• Ability to work in agile, fast-paced environments.

The salary range for this position is $120,000 to $140,000 with bonus potential.

About Quanex, A Part of Something Bigger

Quanex (NYSE: NX) is a global, publicly traded manufacturing company primarily serving OEMs in the fenestration, cabinetry, solar, refrigeration and outdoor products markets. We are A Part of Something Bigger by improving the performance and aesthetics of end products through continuous innovation, helping customers achieve greater production efficiencies, dedication to giving back to communities where we operate, producing shareholder value and helping our employees learn, grow, and thrive. Learn more at Quanex.com .

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