Principal Advanced Analytics Engineer

NVR, Inc. is seeking a Principal Advanced Analytics Engineer to work on-site in Reston, VA.

NVR’s technology teams thrive on providing multiple business lines with tools and cutting-edge technologies that support NVR’s mission to create a better living experience for our customers. Join NVR Technology and be part of a collaborative team that welcomes innovation, encourages continuous learning, and helps you achieve your career goals.

Summary

NVR is accelerating its enterprise AI strategy. As our Principal Advanced Analytics Engineer, you will set technical standards and lead the end-to-end design, development, and productionization of Microsoft-based AI, ML, and BI solutions. You will partner with business leaders and engineering teams to turn complex data into actionable decisions while mentoring engineers, championing responsible AI, and consistently delivering outstanding customer service.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Work with business stakeholders and senior technology leaders to design and implement AI/ML predictive and prescriptive models, ensuring business fit and technical viability.
• Define and enforce engineering standards, design patterns, and quality checks for advanced analytics.
• Implement CI/CD for ML, including model versioning, automated testing, monitoring, drift detection, and retraining using Fabric + Azure ML.
• Ensure Responsible AI practices: fairness, bias detection, explainability, and compliance.
• Design enterprise data models (dimensional/star schemas) supporting BI and Data Agents.
• Collaborate with analytics and insights teams to deliver efficient and reliable data solutions.
• Ensure data security, access control, lineage, and adherence to corporate standards and privacy regulations.
• Research new and evolving ML, AI, and BI capabilities and introduce them to the team and users.
• Mentor Data Analytics Engineers on problem-solving, best practices, and career growth.

Job Qualifications

Must-Have Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering/analytics roles, with at least 3 years in ML/AI solution architecture.
• Effective communication, customer service, and engagement skills.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Analytics Toolset (Fabric, Azure ML, Azure Synapse, Azure ADF, Power BI, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Notebooks, Pipelines, Dataflows, Spark, Python).
• Experience training, validating, and deploying predictive and generative AI models (LLMs) with Fabric + Azure ML.
• Skilled in dimensional/star schema data model design for use by Data Agents and BI applications.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD for ML, model versioning, monitoring, and retraining using Fabric/Azure ML.
• Experience ensuring data security, lineage, access control, and compliance with corporate standards and privacy regulations.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications (Preferred)

• Experience with Power BI and semantic models.
• Knowledge of fairness, bias detection, explainability, and AI compliance.
• Performance tuning for Spark workloads and cost optimization in Fabric/Azure.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Life at NVR

As the parent company of Ryan Homes, NVHomes and Heartland Homes, NVR is committed to your success and we will give you the tools, training, and industry knowledge you need to excel and thrive. Our management team is tenured and talented, nearly 80% of them promoted from within, so you will have mentors who can share their knowledge and provide career guidance and encouragement.

NVR offers traditional benefits, among the best in the industry. In addition, we offer all employees stock ownership through a profit sharing trust as part of our retirement savings package. NVR has had the highest Earnings Per Share growth rate in the homebuilding industry for the past 10 years, so as we grow financially, so do you!

View more about our exceptional culture and comprehensive benefits at https://www.nvrcareers.com/.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Drug Testing and Credit Check are required.
Applicants must be legally entitled to work in the United States, as NVR does not provide visa sponsorship.

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