Senior Platform Architect – Data, AI & Cloud

D.R. Horton; Arlington (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision

401(K)

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Flexible Spending Accounts

Job summary

D.R. Horton, Inc. in Arlington, TX, seeks a Principal Platform Architect to define the data, AI, and digital foundations for the company’s next generation of capabilities.

This hands-on leadership role will establish standards, patterns, and reference architectures used across enterprise teams, aligning strategy with scalable production platforms. You will drive architecture decisions, ensure security and cost discipline, and collaborate with Cybersecurity, Data, AI, and Governance functions to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years architecture, platform engineering, software engineering, data engineering, cloud, or related experience in enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing enterprise-scale data, AI, integration, software, and hybrid cloud architectures.
• Strong understanding of security, identity, networking, APIs, data platforms, AI/ML platforms, containers, observability, resilience, and FinOps.

Responsibilities

• Define target-state architecture, reference architectures, technology standards, and reusable patterns across data, AI, software, integration, and hybrid infrastructure.
• Lead architecture decisions and tradeoff analysis across build, buy, partner, cloud versus on-premises, performance, scalability, security, interoperability, operational complexity, vendor lock-in, and total cost of ownership.
• Chair or lead architecture reviews for major priority products, platform changes, integrations, and technology selections.
• Translate enterprise strategy into implementable architecture and work hands-on with engineering teams to ensure designs become production standards.
• Partner with Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Data, AI, Software, Governance, and business teams on cross-cutting architecture decisions.
• 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.

Skills

Enterprise-scale architecture

Cloud & hybrid cloud

APIs & integration

Security & FinOps

Leadership & communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

10+ years architecture/platform/engineering experience

Experience designing enterprise-scale data/AI architectures

Strong security, identity, networking, APIs, data platforms, AI/ML platforms, containers

Tools

Azure

Snowflake

Microsoft ecosystem

NVIDIA

Kubernetes

Job description

D.R. Horton, Inc. in Arlington, TX, seeks a Principal Platform Architect to define the data, AI, and digital foundations for the company’s next generation of capabilities.

This hands-on leadership role will establish standards, patterns, and reference architectures used across enterprise teams, aligning strategy with scalable production platforms. You will drive architecture decisions, ensure security and cost discipline, and collaborate with Cybersecurity, Data, AI, and Governance functions to