Data Governance Analyst
About The Position
D.R. Horton 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 use enterprise data responsibly. The analyst will work across business and technical teams to make governance information current and easy to find, track data-quality issues through resolution, and make governance a practical aid to teams. The position supports the company’s efforts to develop modern data, AI, and digital capabilities for homebuilding. It calls for an organized, collaborative, curious person interested in business, data, governance, and emerging AI capabilities, who can balance enterprise standards with business needs and operating realities. 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 experience in data governance, analytics, data quality, business analysis, compliance, or a related area.
- 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; 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, applying 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 business in a professional and ethical manner.
- Travel overnight as needed.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k).
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Life and disability insurance.
- Vacation, sick, and personal time, plus company holidays.
- Multiple voluntary and company-provided benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
