Lead Platform Engineer

Overview

**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](http://www.drhorton.com/) for more information.

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Lead engineering and operational ownership for major data platform domains, establishing technical standards for security, reliability, automation, workload management, observability, resilience, recovery, capacity, and cost governance
Lead design and implementation of reusable platform services and automation using Python and/or other modern languages, APIs, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, Git-based workflows, testing, and configuration management
Define and drive SRE/DataOps practices including SLIs, SLOs, service tiers, incident response, root-cause analysis, postmortems, automated remediation, availability, and recovery objectives
Lead technical design for platform capabilities supporting analytics, machine learning, generative AI, semantic search, RAG, agents, model endpoints, vector services, model gateways, and intelligent applications
Establish operational patterns for AI/ML services including deployment, inference, secrets, workload isolation, quotas, evaluation, monitoring, versioning, rollback, and lifecycle management
Lead engineering integration across cloud and on-premises infrastructure, including containers/Kubernetes, storage, networking, GPU-enabled compute, resource scheduling, capacity, and observability
Lead platform FinOps for assigned domains, including consumption analysis, forecasting inputs, utilization, unit economics, license optimization, vendor commitments, and cloud/on-prem workload placement recommendations
Lead complex incidents, major changes, upgrades, migrations, proofs of concept, and operational-readiness assessments
Review technical designs and code, mentor engineers, establish reusable patterns, and raise engineering quality across the team
Partner with architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data engineering, analytics, AI, sourcing, and business teams to resolve cross-platform decisions and dependencies
Drive measurable improvements in availability, MTTR, automation coverage, self-service adoption, resource utilization, and unit cost
Ability to travel overnight.
Represent Data & AI Foundation engineering in architecture, security, governance, audit, sourcing, infrastructure, and strategic planning forums
Lead technology evaluations and build/buy/partner analysis for assigned platform capabilities, considering interoperability, security, operational complexity, vendor lock-in, and total cost of ownership
Provide technical leadership without direct supervisory responsibility, coordinate work across engineers and partners, and perform additional duties as assigned
Conduct all business in a professional and ethical manner

Lead Platform Engineer

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Lead Platform Engineer

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D.R. Horton

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