Data Engineer with AI/ML (Pulte Mortgage)

PulteGroup • Englewood, CO

14d • Hybrid

About The Position

Providing lending services to help our customers achieve their dream of homeownership. At Pulte Mortgage, we’re more than a lender—we’re a team driven by purpose. Since 1972, we’ve helped over 700,000 families finance their dream homes through innovative lending solutions and a commitment to doing the right thing. As a wholly owned subsidiary of PulteGroup, we offer a people-first culture rooted in collaboration, integrity, and daily positivity. Join us in Denver, CO, and be part of a company recognized by Fortune and Great Place to Work for building meaningful careers, supporting community impact, and creating a workplace where you can thrive. Apply now and discover a career where your contributions are valued, your growth is supported, and your work makes a lasting impact. This position will be located in Denver, CO or Texas. This position is hybrid requiring 1 day per week in office. JOB SUMMARY If you are driven to build quality software, have worked in both cloud and on-prem environments and enjoy the challenge of understanding and modernizing an ecosystem of data, we want to meet you. Pulte Mortgage is seeking an experienced, passionate, results-oriented, hands-on data engineer with experience transforming organizations into a more data-driven culture and environment to join our information systems department. Our vision is to elevate the power of data by providing robust data quality, data management, data modeling, and data visualization solutions to empower our people to make informed, data-driven decisions. We are looking for a seasoned software engineer with a passion for data who has hands-on experience building and debugging SQL Server databases, data pipelines, data transformations, and data acquisition processes. The ideal candidate will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our data analytics, business intelligence and data governance initiatives by leveraging data, visualization and data platform technologies while partnering with cross-functional teams and departments. The Software Engineer will be responsible for developing data pipelines, coding ETL/ELT solutions, using SQL, Python, or PySpark to investigate data, and working with the Data Product team to deliver user stories as part of the company’s data roadmap. The ideal candidate will also bring a passion for, and possible experience with, AI, Machine Learning (ML) and other agent processes to infuse our data into decision-driven analytics. This position requires a data-driven individual with strong technical skills, as well as the ability to communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders.

Requirements

• Minimum high school diploma or equivalent (GED)
• 4+ years’ software engineering experience with Python, PySpark, Spark or equivalent notebook programming.
• 3+ years’ experience with XML, SQL, relational databases, and large data repositories.
• Excellent relational database skills in writing SQL, ETL processes, analyzing and optimizing query plans, and writing DDL scripts.
• Passion for data and data quality.
• Passion for building clean and testable code, creating unit tests, and focusing on code quality.
• Extensive knowledge and experience with PowerBI or other widely used data solutions.
• Highly self-motivated and directed with a strong sense of curiosity and drive to accomplish goals and support the data product team.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to interact effectively with a wide range of technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Participant in Agile methodologies, particularly Scrum, and a track record of successful product delivery

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field highly preferred
• Preferred experience building solutions within Microsoft's Azure cloud environment, specifically Microsoft Fabric; or willingness to learn and adopt new cloud-native data platforms.
• Hands on experience with data platform technologies such as Kafka, Hadoop, or Spark, but preferably those in the Azure platform such as HD Insight, Synapse, Data Lake, and Data Factory.
• Experience with AI, ML, Agents and other automation tools is a huge plus.
• Experience with ML frameworks (e.g., scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Azure ML) is a plus.
• Experience with API and integration concepts.
• Knowledge in data pipelines, CI/CD concepts, DataOps/MLOps, and general software deployment lifecycles for continuous integration, delivery and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design new and improve existing data infrastructures, including the Lakehouse, data warehouses, dataflows, data pipelines, semantic models, and reports.
• Migrate large-scale data stores from the existing on-premises SQL Server infrastructure to the new Microsoft Fabric-based infrastructure.
• Classify and organize data based on identified taxonomy structures.
• Work with our enterprise and data architects to ensure that the data is of high quality and meets the organization’s requirements.
• Optimize data processing by using modern data engineering tools such as notebooks, dataflows, data pipelines, semantic models, and reports.
• Provide technical expertise during the design, planning, development, implementation, and testing of digital solutions, often custom developed and integrating new technologies.
• Understand technological systems and strategic vision and help facilitate the technical portion to produce integrated end-to-end digital solution options.
• Experiment and find ways to use AI and ML to improve our processes or deliver business impact
• Collaborate with data scientists to productionize ML models and integrate them into data pipelines.
• Participate in cross-project planning and release planning activities.
• Write and maintain concise documentation about our development process and major systems.
• Build scalable, maintainable, easy-to-use software following our development best practices and requirements laid out by the architect and the development team.
• Collaborate with product owners and end-users to understand any desired business functionality.
• Regularly review application logs and dashboards to proactively monitor for defects, gauge performance, and troubleshoot production problems.
• Contribute to Pulte Financial Services’ positive, trusting, inclusive culture and team-first environment.

Benefits

• This position is also eligible for an annual bonus based on the successful completion of defined performance objectives.
• In addition to up to 9 paid company holidays per year, employees are eligible for up to 6 days of sick pay.
• Moreover, eligible employees with less than 10 years of service can accrue up to 17 PTO days per year (and up to 22 PTO days per year upon 10 or more years of service).
• Employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Plan.
• Employees (and their eligible dependents) are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
• Employees are covered by company-paid disability, basic life insurance and parental leave.
• Voluntary insurance coverage options, including critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity, are also available.
• In addition, the Company offers an Employee Assistance Program and tuition reimbursement (as applicable).
• Employees may also be eligible for state required benefits such as paid family and medical leave insurance and/or paid sick time as applicable.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED