Solutions Architect

D.R. Horton • Arlington, TX

20d • Onsite

About The Position

The right candidate is a senior technical role responsible for bridging enterprise architecture and feature-level implementation across engineering teams. This role ensures that all deployed solutions maintain high availability, reliability, and performance while adhering to established architectural best practices and standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field
• Minimum 8–10 years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure
• 3+ years spent in a dedicated Architecture or Principal Engineer role
• Prior experience within a Fortune 500 environment or large enterprise is required
• Experience translating complex technical risks into clear, value-driven business language for executive stakeholders
• Deep mastery of API management, event-driven architectures and integrating legacy enterprise ERP systems
• 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

Nice To Haves

• Master’s Degree Preferred
• Advanced knowledge of identity management protocols, encryption standards, and enterprise compliance practices

Responsibilities

• Maintain a deep understanding of the enterprise architecture and translate it into practical implementation patterns for feature teams
• Evaluate proposed designs and implementation plans for alignment with architectural standards, scalability requirements, and operational best practices
• Define and enforce non-functional requirements including availability, reliability, performance, and security across deployed solutions
• Identify architectural risks in team designs early and prescribe mitigation strategies before they reach production
• Serve as a subject matter expert in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and integration patterns relevant to the organization's technology stack
• Review infrastructure-as-code, deployment configurations, and system integrations to ensure they meet availability and resilience standards
• Drive adoption of architectural patterns such as fault tolerance, graceful degradation, circuit breaking, and observability across teams
• Evaluate emerging technologies and tools to determine alignment with enterprise architecture standards and the organization’s current capabilities and maturity
• Facilitates architecture review sessions and design discussions across teams, building shared understanding and consensus
• Translates enterprise architecture directives into team-level implementation requirements that are specific and actionable
• Conduct all business in a professional and ethical manner to serve customers and increase the goodwill and profit of the company
• Ability to travel overnight

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior