Integration / API Architect

D.R. Horton

Arlington (TX)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Employee stock purchase plan

Flex spending accounts

Life & disability insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

D.R. Horton, Inc. is seeking an Integration / API Architect to define reusable API, event, and integration patterns that connect enterprise systems securely and reliably.

This hands-on role shapes modern data, AI, and digital capabilities across the organization, driving practical value and faster time-to-market for initiatives. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in REST/GraphQL, event-driven architectures, and cloud integrations, collaborating with engineers and product teams to

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
8+ years of integration architecture, API engineering, software engineering, middleware, or related experience.
Deep knowledge of REST/GraphQL APIs, event‑driven architecture, messaging, authentication/authorization, integration security, and observability.
Experience integrating legacy enterprise applications with cloud, SaaS, data, and modern application platforms.
Strong coding or scripting background and ability to work directly with engineering teams.
Demonstrated ability to work independently, take ownership, communicate clearly, and deliver results in an evolving environment.
Ability to build trusted relationships across the organization, balancing enterprise standards with business needs and operating realities.

Responsibilities

Define enterprise API, event, integration, and interface standards and reusable patterns.
Design integrations across legacy and modern systems, SaaS platforms, data services, digital applications, and AI agents.
Establish standards for authentication, authorization, versioning, contracts, error handling, observability, resiliency, and lifecycle management.
Partner with application owners and engineering teams to modernize brittle point‑to‑point integrations and expose reusable business capabilities.
Evaluate integration platforms, API gateways, messaging/event technologies, and vendor capabilities.
Represent the function in cross‑functional discovery, architecture, governance, operational-readiness, and continuous‑improvement activities as appropriate.
Stay current on relevant data, AI, digital, software, and industry practices and apply new capabilities when they create practical business value.

Skills

REST/GraphQL APIs

Event-driven architecture

Authentication/Authorization

Observability

Cloud/SaaS integrations

Strong coding background

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering / IS

8+ years integration architecture / API engineering

Tools

Azure Integration Services

Kafka

API Management

Job description

Job Description - Integration / API Architect (2605588)

Job Description

Integration / API Architect - 2605588

Description

D.R. Horton, Inc., the largest homebuilder in the U.S., was founded in 1978 and is a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. It is engaged in the construction and sale of high-quality homes designed principally for the entry-level and first time move‑up markets. The Company also provides mortgage financing and title services for homebuyers through its mortgage and title subsidiaries. Please visit our website at www.drhorton.com for more information.

As the nation's largest homebuilder by volume, D.R. Horton is transforming how it uses data, AI, and digital solutions for the next generation of homebuilding, and we pair the reach of a national enterprise with a culture built on local ownership, practical innovation, and deep business partnerships. Our teams focus on solutions that work in the field and deliver real results, not technology for its own sake. In this role, you'll have a critical opportunity to shape modern capabilities that will influence how the company operates for years to come.

D.R. Horton, Inc. is currently looking for an Integration / API Architect. The Integration / API Architect will help create the connective foundation for D.R. Horton's modern data, AI, and digital ecosystem. This hands‑on architecture role will define reusable API, event, integration, and interoperability patterns that allow systems and data to work together securely and reliably. The ideal candidate can simplify complex integration environments, establish modern standards, and build practical patterns that accelerate future digital and AI solutions. Success in this role means systems connect through reusable, well‑governed APIs and events, point‑to‑point integrations shrink, and new digital and AI solutions plug into enterprise data and systems quickly and safely.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

Define enterprise API, event, integration, and interface standards and reusable patterns
Design integrations across legacy and modern systems, SaaS platforms, data services, digital applications, and AI agents
Establish standards for authentication, authorization, versioning, contracts, error handling, observability, resiliency, and lifecycle management
Partner with application owners and engineering teams to modernize brittle point‑to‑point integrations and expose reusable business capabilities
Evaluate integration platforms, API gateways, messaging/event technologies, and vendor capabilities
Represent the function in cross‑functional discovery, architecture, governance, operational‑readiness, and continuous‑improvement activities as appropriate
Stay current on relevant data, AI, digital, software, and industry practices and apply new capabilities when they create practical business value
Identify, shape, and pilot new opportunities where data, AI, and digital capabilities can create business value, operating with an owner's mindset and a bias toward building, testing, and learning quickly
Conduct all business in a professional and ethical manner
Ability to travel overnight

Qualifications

Education and/or Experience

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience
8+ years of integration architecture, API engineering, software engineering, middleware, or related experience
Deep knowledge of REST/GraphQL APIs, event‑driven architecture, messaging, authentication/authorization, integration security, and observability
Experience integrating legacy enterprise applications with cloud, SaaS, data, and modern application platforms
Strong coding or scripting background and ability to work directly with engineering teams
Demonstrated ability to work independently, take ownership, communicate clearly, and deliver results in an evolving environment
Ability to build trusted relationships across the organization, balancing enterprise standards with business needs and operating realities

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with JDE, Microsoft/Azure integration services, API management, Kafka/event streaming, SaaS integration, MCP (Model Context Protocol) and agent‑to‑system tool patterns, agent and non‑human identity, or comparable technologies is preferred
Experience in homebuilding, real estate, construction, mortgage, title, land development, sales, purchasing, finance, customer care, or another distributed operating business is a plus
Experience working in a large enterprise with complex enterprise environments is preferred
Experience founding, incubating, or building new products, capabilities, or businesses from the ground up is a plus

Come joina winning team with a Fortune 500 company! We are growing fast and arelooking for enthusiastic attitudes and team players to join our success. We offer an excellent benefits package including: