Hybrid Data Engineer – AI/ML

at PulteGroup Houston Division

• Job title: Data Engineer – AI/ML
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $100,000 - $115,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Azure, Cloud, ETL, Hadoop, Kafka, PySpark, Python, Scikit-Learn, Spark, SQL, Tensorflow
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Denver, United States

About the role

• Data Engineer with AI/ML at Pulte Mortgage focused on enhancing data-driven culture and infrastructure. Responsibilities include designing data pipelines, collaborating with data scientists, and ensuring data quality.

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

Requirements

• Minimum high school diploma or equivalent (GED)
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field highly preferred
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Up to 9 paid company holidays per year
• Up to 6 days of sick pay
• Up to 17 PTO days per year (and up to 22 PTO days per year upon 10 or more years of service)
• Eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Plan
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage
• Company-paid disability, basic life insurance, and parental leave
• Voluntary insurance coverage options, including critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition reimbursement (as applicable)