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 at www.drhorton.com for 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 an Integration / 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 Responsibilities include 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