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Horton is hiring a Lead Platform Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership for major domains of its enterprise Data & AI Foundation. The role leads platform engineering standards, implementations, operational practices, and cross-team delivery across data services, DataOps, AI/ML capabilities, observability, automation, and hybrid infrastructure.\n\nResponsibilities\nLead 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\nLead 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\nDefine and drive SRE/DataOps practices including SLIs, SLOs, service tiers, incident response, root-cause analysis, postmortems, automated remediation, availability, and recovery objectives\nLead technical design for platform capabilities supporting analytics, machine learning, generative AI, semantic search, RAG, agents, model endpoints, vector services, model gateways, and intelligent applications\nEstablish operational patterns for AI/ML services including deployment, inference, secrets, workload isolation, quotas, evaluation, monitoring, versioning, rollback, and lifecycle management\nLead engineering integration across cloud and on-premises infrastructure, including containers/Kubernetes, storage, networking, GPU-enabled compute, resource scheduling, capacity, and observability\nLead platform FinOps for assigned domains, including consumption analysis, forecasting inputs, utilization, unit economics, license optimization, vendor commitments, and cloud/on-prem workload placement recommendations\nLead complex incidents, major changes, upgrades, migrations, proofs of concept, and operational-readiness assessments\nReview technical designs and code, mentor engineers, establish reusable patterns, and raise engineering quality across the team\nPartner with architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data engineering, analytics, AI, sourcing, and business teams to resolve cross-platform decisions and dependencies\nDrive measurable improvements in availability, MTTR, automation coverage, self-service adoption, resource utilization, and unit cost\nRepresent Data & AI Foundation engineering in architecture, security, governance, audit, sourcing, infrastructure, and strategic planning forums\nLead technology evaluations and build/buy/partner analysis for assigned platform capabilities, considering interoperability, security, operational complexity, vendor lock-in, and total cost of ownership\nProvide technical leadership without direct supervisory responsibility, coordinate work across engineers and partners, and perform additional duties as assigned\nConduct all business in a professional and ethical manner\n\nSkills\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent education and experience\n7 or 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evaluation, observability, and lifecycle management\nAbility to mentor engineers, influence technical decisions, and clearly communicate platform risk, architecture, value, cost, and trade-offs to senior stakeholders\nAdvanced Snowflake, cloud, architecture, security, FinOps, SRE, Kubernetes, or responsible AI certification preferred\nBroad hands-on experience with Snowflake, Azure, Fivetran, dbt, Power BI/Microsoft Fabric, GitHub, Terraform/OpenTofu, Kubernetes, observability platforms, API management, and AI/ML platform services or comparable technologies preferred\nExperience with hybrid cloud/on-premises infrastructure, Linux, GPU-enabled compute, storage, networking, workload scheduling, hardware/software economics, metadata/catalog, governance, and open data formats such as Apache Iceberg preferred\n\nBenefits\nMedical, Dental and Vision\n401(K)\nEmployee Stock Purchase Plan\nFlex Spending Accounts\nLife & Disability Insurance\nVacation, Sick, Personal Time and Company 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