Senior Data Platform Architect for Enterprise AI

D.R. Horton; Arlington (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision

401(K)

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Flex Spending Accounts

Life & Disability Insurance

Holidays and PTO

Job summary

D.R. Horton, Inc., the nation's largest homebuilder, seeks a Principal Data Engineer to define modern data engineering patterns and architect reusable data products. You will guide architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and build scalable pipelines powering analytics and AI initiatives.

The role balances architecture with hands-on implementation, delivering a trusted data foundation and enterprise-grade data contracts for company-wide use.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of data engineering, software engineering, or analytics engineering experience
• Experience building enterprise-scale data platforms
• Strong SQL and Python or modern language
• Experience with cloud data platforms and data contracts

Responsibilities

• Define reference patterns and engineering standards for data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration
• Design and build complex enterprise pipelines and reusable data products
• Lead architecture reviews and resolve data engineering issues
• Collaborate on long-term cost, scalability, and governance decisions
• Mentor engineers and promote reusable enterprise data products

Skills

SQL

Python

Leadership

Data Modeling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Fivetran

Airflow

Kafka

Job description

D.R. Horton, Inc., the nation's largest homebuilder, seeks a Principal Data Engineer to define modern data engineering patterns and architect reusable data products. You will guide architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and build scalable pipelines powering analytics and AI initiatives.

The role balances architecture with hands-on implementation, delivering a trusted data foundation and enterprise-grade data contracts for company-wide use.