Senior Data Engineer III On-Site Houston DataOps

Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition assistance (company funded)

Paid Time Off

401(k) – 100% Match up to 5%

Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance after

Competitive Pay

Career Development

Job summary

Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores Inc. is seeking a Data Engineer III to design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines across datawarehouse, datalake, and datahub environments in the Houston office.

The role partners with technology and business stakeholders to operationalize data solutions, promotes reusable design standards, and leverages automation and AI-powered development tools to enhance delivery speed and quality.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of progressively responsible experience in data engineering, data integration, data warehousing, or a related technical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, maintain, and optimize data pipelines supporting data acquisition, ingestion, transformation, staging, modeling, and delivery.
• Develop scalable data integration solutions using ETL/ELT, data replication, change data capture, messaging technologies, APIs, and other data movement methods.
• Evaluate and qualify source data to support master, reference, and transactional data requirements.
• Lead data assessment, mapping, migration, validation, enrichment, and loading activities.
• Design reusable data models and solution architectures using established data engineering and modeling practices.
• Provide architectural and technical input to ensure solutions align with enterprise data strategies, standards, and long-term platform objectives.
• Build and support data solutions across datawarehouse, datalake, datahub, and related data management environments.
• Integrate large, complex, and heterogeneous datasets from internal and external sources.
• Design solutions that are reliable, secure, scalable, maintainable, and focused on automation and operational efficiency.
• Develop and maintain complex SQL queries, procedures, transformations, and data validation processes.
• Apply DataOps and DevOps practices, including version control, automated builds, testing, deployment, monitoring, and release management.
• Troubleshoot complex data quality, integration, performance, and production support issues.
• Participate in front-end and back-end development activities when needed to deliver integrated, end-to-end data solutions.
• Assess how architecture decisions affect solution design, development, testing, deployment, and support.
• Collaborate with business and Technology partners to translate data requirements into effective technical solutions.
• Use AI-powered development tools, such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar technologies, to accelerate delivery, reduce defects, improve documentation, strengthen automation, and increase consistency throughout theDataOpslifecycle.
• Research and recommend tools, technologies, and practices that improve data engineering capabilities and team productivity.
• Provide technical guidance, knowledge sharing, and support to other team members.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Skills

Data engineering

Data warehousing

SQL proficiency

ETL/ELT

Data modeling

Git

DevOps

CDC

Kafka

APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, IT, or related field

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Azure Service Bus

Apache NiFi

Apache Kafka

HVR

Power BI

Tableau

SQL Server

SAP HANA

Job description

Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores Inc. is seeking a Data Engineer III to design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines across datawarehouse, datalake, and datahub environments in the Houston office.

The role partners with technology and business stakeholders to operationalize data solutions, promotes reusable design standards, and leverages automation and AI-powered development tools to enhance delivery speed and quality.