Data Governance Analyst

D.R. Horton • Arlington, TX

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About The Position

D.R. Horton, Inc. is seeking a Data Governance Analyst to help make trusted data and responsible AI part of everyday work. The role supports data owners and stewards, maintains governance information, improves data quality and metadata practices, and helps teams understand how to use enterprise data responsibly. The analyst will work across business and technical teams in an evolving environment, helping make governance practical and accessible. Success includes keeping governance information current and easy to find, tracking data-quality issues through resolution, and helping teams view governance as useful support rather than overhead.

The position also contributes to D.R. Horton’s efforts to develop modern data, AI, and digital capabilities for homebuilding, identifying and piloting opportunities for practical business value. Overnight travel is required.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Analytics, Information Systems, Data Management, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least 2 years of data governance, analytics, data quality, business analysis, compliance, or related experience.
• Working knowledge of data definitions, metadata, quality, ownership, and stewardship concepts.
• Strong organization, documentation, communication, and follow-through skills.
• Comfort working with both business users and technical teams.
• 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 Haves

• Experience with data catalog and lineage tools such as OpenMetadata, Collate, or comparable tools; data quality tools; data contracts; Snowflake; or Power BI or comparable tools.
• Familiarity with fair-housing and consumer-privacy data handling requirements.
• Experience in homebuilding, real estate, construction, mortgage, title, land development, sales, purchasing, finance, customer care, or another distributed operating business.
• Experience working in a large enterprise with complex enterprise environments.
• Experience founding, incubating, or building new products, capabilities, or businesses from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Support business glossary, metadata, data ownership, stewardship, lineage, classification, and data-quality activities.
• Assist stewards with documenting definitions, rules, ownership, issues, decisions, and remediation actions.
• Monitor governance workflows and data-quality exceptions, and coordinate follow-up with responsible teams.
• Prepare governance metrics, dashboards, training materials, and communications.
• Support onboarding of new data products, domains, and priority initiatives into governance processes.
• Contribute reusable governance templates, checklists, and playbooks to help teams adopt consistent practices.
• Represent the function in cross-functional discovery, architecture, governance, operational-readiness, and continuous-improvement activities as appropriate.
• Stay current on relevant data, AI, digital, software, and industry practices, and apply new capabilities when they create practical business value.
• Identify, shape, and pilot opportunities where data, AI, and digital capabilities can create business value, using an owner's mindset and a bias toward building, testing, and learning quickly.
• Conduct all business in a professional and ethical manner.
• Travel overnight.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision
• 401(k)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Flex Spending Accounts
• Life and disability insurance
• Vacation, sick, and personal time
• Company holidays
• Multiple voluntary and company-provided benefits

What This Job Offers

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