# Lead Platform Engineer

D.R. 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. Responsibilities 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 gatew

- **Id**: 4047268
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/dr-horton-lead-platform-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Arlington, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T23:27:36Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T23:27:36Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5364
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Property Development, Residential Real Estate, Construction

## Company

- **Id**: 2127471
- **Name**: DR Horton
- **Domain**: drhorton.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/drhorton>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

## Technologies

- **Apache Iceberg** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **dbt** — Optional: no
- **FinOps** — Optional: no
- **Fivetran** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Fabric** — Optional: no
- **OpenTofu** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Power BI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Semantic Search** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T00:21:45Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T04:29:44Z

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