Principal Platform Architect (AI)

Location: Arlington, Texas, United States; overnight travel may be required.

Company

hirify.global is a publicly traded Fortune 500 homebuilder that constructs and sells homes and provides mortgage financing and title services.

What you will do

• Define and maintain target-state, reference, and reusable architectures across data, AI, software, integration, and hybrid infrastructure.
• Lead architecture decisions and tradeoff analysis covering build versus buy, cloud versus on-premises, performance, scalability, security, interoperability, vendor lock-in, operational complexity, and total cost of ownership.
• Chair architecture reviews for priority products, platform changes, integrations, and technology selections.
• Translate enterprise strategy into implementable designs and work hands-on with engineering teams to establish production standards.
• Partner with Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Data, AI, Software, Governance, and business teams on cross-cutting decisions.
• Identify and pilot data, AI, and digital capabilities that create practical business value while staying current with relevant technologies and industry practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of architecture, platform engineering, software engineering, data engineering, cloud, or related experience in enterprise environments.
• Expertise designing enterprise-scale data, AI, integration, software, and hybrid cloud architectures.
• Strong understanding of security, identity, networking, APIs, data platforms, AI/ML platforms, containers, observability, resilience, and FinOps.
• Ability to move between executive architecture discussions and detailed technical design with engineers.
• Ability to work independently, take ownership, communicate clearly, and deliver results in an evolving environment.
• Ability to build trusted relationships across the organization while balancing enterprise standards with business needs and operating realities.

Nice to have

• Experience with Azure, Snowflake, the Microsoft ecosystem, NVIDIA, private or on-premises AI inference, vLLM/NIM, open-weight models, AI gateways, model routing, provider abstraction, MCP, APIs, Kubernetes, open data formats, semantic layers, data contracts, or comparable technologies.
• Experience in homebuilding, real estate, construction, mortgage, title, land development, sales, purchasing, finance, customer care, or another distributed operating business.
• Experience working in large, complex enterprise environments.
• Experience founding, incubating, or building products, capabilities, or businesses from the ground up.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time corporate role with an owner's mindset, practical innovation, and cross-functional business partnerships.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k), employee stock purchase plan, flexible spending accounts, life and disability insurance.
• Vacation, sick and personal time, company holidays, and additional voluntary and company-provided benefits.
• Overnight travel may be required.