Director Of Data Engineering

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.

D.R. Horton, Inc. is currently looking for a Director of Data Engineering. The right candidate is responsible for the strategic direction, architectural excellence, and operational execution of the company's data engineering capabilities. This role is responsible for building scalable data architecture, enabling customer data integration, and ensuring reliable data pipelines that support digital marketing, customer analytics, and personalization strategies.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Define and execute the technical vision and roadmap for data engineering aligned with company data strategy and Marketing Technology objectives

• Oversee the architecture, reliability, performance, cost management, and governance of the Snowflake data platform and all pipelines that feed it

• Establish metrics for pipeline health, data quality, freshness, and Snowflake compute efficiency

• Guide critical architectural decisions across Snowflake schema design, dbt project structure, Fivetran connector management, and pipeline orchestration

• Drive adoption of automated dbt testing, pipeline observability, data contracts, and cost tagging; manage technical debt strategically

• Lead incident response and post-mortems for pipeline failures, data quality incidents, and platform outages

• Collaborate with Analytics, Data Science, Product, and Marketing to shape the data product roadmap and ensure the platform meets analytical needs

• Coordinate with Security, Legal, and Compliance on data governance, PII handling, and regulatory requirements

• Build and lead a team of data engineers and tech leads spanning ingestion, transformation, and data product delivery

• Evaluate and recommend emerging data technologies, tools, and platforms to enhance MarTech capabilities and operational efficiency

• Conduct all business in a professional and ethical manner to serve customers and increase the goodwill and profit of the company

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Supervises 2 or more employees

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related field required

• 10 years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or related roles

• 5 years of leadership experience managing data engineering or platform teams

• High-growth tech company or complex enterprise background

• Proven track record building high-performing data engineering teams

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written and oral form or via DRH applications

• Ability to sit for majority of 8-hour workday; use hands and fingers to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and peripheral vision

• The noise level is generally moderate

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep hands-on expertise with Snowflake (architecture, cost, governance)

• Strong dbt expertise: modeling, testing, macros, project structure

• Fivetran or equivalent ELT platform experience at scale

• Data modeling fluency: dimensional, entity-relationship

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

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