Metadata & Data Catalog Lead

Trimble • Lake Oswego, OR

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About The Position

Trimble is seeking a hands-on and detail-oriented Metadata & Data Catalog Lead to support the enterprise-wide metadata management and data catalog program. This role plays a vital part in enabling data discoverability, trust, and governance across functional horizontal and vertical data domains and products. You will manage the metadata lifecycle, maintain the data catalog platform (e.g., Microsoft Purview), and help establish AI-enablement, lineage, and standards that scale. This is an individual contributor (IC) role for a candidate who thrives at the intersection of data documentation, catalog configuration, user engagement, and technical enablement.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in data cataloging, metadata management, or data governance.
• Hands-on experience with at least one enterprise data cataloging platform (e.g., Microsoft Purview, Alation, Collibra, DataHub).
• Strong understanding of metadata management practices, including business glossary, data lineage, classifications, and stewardship.
• Basic familiarity with SQL and modern data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks).
• Experience working cross-functionally with data engineering, governance, and business stakeholders to support catalog and metadata requirements.
• Proven ability to document, manage, and communicate complex metadata and data asset details to technical and non-technical users.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a strong sense of curiosity and continuous improvement.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with AI or NLP-based metadata enrichment tools or tagging frameworks.
• Experience using automation or scripting (e.g., Python, APIs) for metadata operations.
• Understanding of data governance frameworks (DCAM, DMBOK) and their application to catalog strategy.
• Background working in complex or multi-domain organizations.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and configure the enterprise data catalog platform (e.g., Microsoft Purview, Alation, or DataHub), ensuring high availability, usability, and integration with enterprise data sources.
• Establish and maintain metadata management standards, including data classifications, taxonomy, lineage, glossary terms, and stewardship metadata.
• Partner with data engineers, data stewards, and governance teams to curate technical and business metadata, and ensure alignment across domains.
• Support the integration of metadata from BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau), databases (e.g., Snowflake), and pipelines into the catalog.
• Contribute to automation of metadata enrichment using rule-based tagging or GenAI-assisted NLP features when appropriate.
• Collaborate with Data Governance and Data Quality leads to ensure metadata supports policies, lineage, and trusted data scoring.
• Promote catalog adoption across the business by developing training materials, conducting onboarding sessions, and supporting end users.
• Monitor metadata quality, ensure consistency, and participate in continuous improvement efforts to increase discoverability and compliance.

Benefits

• Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans.
• Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees