Integration / API Architect

*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 atwww.drhorton.comfor more information.

As the nation's largest homebuilder by volume, D.R. Horton is transforming how it uses data, AI, and digital solutions for the next generation of homebuilding, and we pair the reach of a national enterprise with a culture built on local ownership, practical innovation, and deep business partnerships. Our teams focus on solutions that work in the field and deliver real results, not technology for its own sake. In this role, you'll have a critical opportunity to shape modern capabilities that will influence how the company operates for years to come.

D.R. Horton, Inc.is currently looking for anIntegration / API Architect. The Integration / API Architect will help create the connective foundation for D.R. Horton's modern data, AI, and digital ecosystem. This hands-on architecture role will define reusable API, event, integration, and interoperability patterns that allow systems and data to work together securely and reliably. The ideal candidate can simplify complex integration environments, establish modern standards, and build practical patterns that accelerate future digital and AI solutions. Success in this role means systems connect through reusable, well-governed APIs and events, point-to-point integrations shrink, and new digital and AI solutions plug into enterprise data and systems quickly and safely.

Essential Duties and Responsibilitiesinclude the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Define enterprise API, event, integration, and interface standards and reusable patterns
• Design integrations across legacy and modern systems, SaaS platforms, data services, digital applications, and AI agents
• Establish standards for authentication, authorization, versioning, contracts, error handling, observability, resiliency, and lifecycle management
• Partner with application owners and engineering teams to modernize brittle point-to-point integrations and expose reusable business capabilities
• Evaluate integration platforms, API gateways, messaging/event technologies, and vendor capabilities
• 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
• Conduct all business in a professional and ethical manner
• Ability to travel overnight

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 8 years of integration architecture, API engineering, software engineering, middleware, or related experience
• Deep knowledge of REST/GraphQL APIs, event-driven architecture, messaging, authentication/authorization, integration security, and observability
• Experience integrating legacy enterprise applications with cloud, SaaS, data, and modern application platforms
• Strong coding or scripting background and ability to work directly with engineering teams
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, take ownership, communicate clearly, and deliver results in an evolving environment
• Ability to build trusted relationships across the organization, balancing enterprise standards with business needs and operating realities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with JDE, Microsoft/Azure integration services, API management, Kafka/event streaming, SaaS integration, MCP (Model Context Protocol) and agent-to-system tool patterns, agent and non-human identity, or comparable technologies is preferred
• Experience in homebuilding, real estate, construction, mortgage, title, land development, sales, purchasing, finance, customer care, or another distributed operating business is a plus
• Experience working in a large enterprise with complex enterprise environments is preferred
• Experience founding, incubating, or building new products, capabilities, or businesses from the ground up is a plus

Come join a winning team with a Fortune 500 company! We are growing fast and are looking for enthusiastic attitudes and team players to join our success. We offer an excellent benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401(K)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Flex Spending Accounts
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Vacation, Sick, Personal Time and Company Holidays
• Multiple Voluntary and Company provided Benefits

/Build YOUR future with D.R. Horton, America’s Builder.* *#WeBuildPeopleToo/

Job: *Executive

Organization: *Corporate

Title: Integration / API Architect

Location: TX-Arlington

Requisition ID: 2605588