Data Governance Analyst

About the role

D.R. Horton, Inc., the largest homebuilder in the U.S., was founded in 1978 and is a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. It is engaged in the construction and sale of high-quality homes designed principally for the entry-level and first time move-up markets. The Company also provides mortgage financing and title services for homebuyers through its mortgage and title subsidiaries.

As the nation's largest homebuilder by volume, D.R. Horton is transforming how it uses data, AI, and digital solutions for the next generation of homebuilding, pairing the reach of a national enterprise with a culture built on local ownership, practical innovation, and deep business partnerships. Teams focus on solutions that work in the field and deliver real results, not technology for its own sake. In this role, you'll have a critical opportunity to shape modern capabilities that will influence how the company operates for years to come.

The Data Governance Analyst role will help make trusted data and responsible AI part of everyday work. This role will support data owners and stewards, maintain governance information, improve data quality and metadata practices, and help teams understand how to use enterprise data responsibly. The ideal candidate is organized, collaborative, curious, and interested in growing at the intersection of business, data, governance, and emerging AI capabilities. Success in this role means governance information is current and easy to find, data-quality issues are tracked to closure, and teams see governance as practical help rather than overhead.

Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• 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 to reusable governance templates, checklists, and playbooks that make it easier for teams to 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 new opportunities where data, AI, and digital capabilities can create business value, operating with an owner's mindset and a bias toward building, testing, and learning quickly
• Conduct all business in a professional and ethical manner
• Ability to travel overnight

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Analytics, Information Systems, Data Management, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 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
• Comfort working with both business users and technical teams
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, take ownership, communicate clearly, and deliver results in an evolving environment
• Build trusted relationships across the organization, balancing enterprise standards with business needs and operating realities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data catalog and lineage tools (OpenMetadata, Collate, or comparable), data quality tools, data contracts, Snowflake, Power BI, or comparable tools, and 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

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401(K)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Flex Spending Accounts
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Vacation, Sick, Personal Time and Company Holidays
• Multiple Voluntary and Company provided Benefits