Data Governance Analyst — Trusted Data & AI Enablement

Forestar Group; Arlington (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision

401(k)

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Flex Spending Accounts

Life & Disability Insurance

Paid time off

Company holidays

Voluntary benefits

Job summary

D.R. Horton, Inc. is seeking a Data Governance Analyst to help embed trusted data and responsible AI into daily work.

You will support data owners and stewards, improve data quality, and maintain governance information across the enterprise. The role emphasizes collaboration with business units and technical teams to drive practical data governance outcomes. The ideal candidate is organized, curious, and eager to operate at the intersection of business, data, governance, and AI capabilities.

Qualifications

• 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

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 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

Skills

Data governance

Data quality

Metadata management

Documentation

Communication

Project coordination

Stakeholder collaboration

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Analytics, Information Systems, Data Management, or a related field

Tools

OpenMetadata

Collate

Snowflake

Power BI

Job description

D.R. Horton, Inc. is seeking a Data Governance Analyst to help embed trusted data and responsible AI into daily work.

You will support data owners and stewards, improve data quality, and maintain governance information across the enterprise. The role emphasizes collaboration with business units and technical teams to drive practical data governance outcomes. The ideal candidate is organized, curious, and eager to operate at the intersection of business, data, governance, and AI capabilities.