Sr. Data Governance Lead

Trimble Inc.•Lake Oswego, OR

7d•$144,600 - $198,800•Hybrid

About The Position

Lead the Future of Data Trust as Enterprise Data Governance Principal Lead. Shape the operational operating system that turns data governance into active, enterprise-wide trust to accelerate AI, analytics, and digital transformation. In this critical role, you will build and scale a federated governance practice that turns raw data into certified Gold-tier products and drives connected data across Trimble. About Us: Trimble is a global technology company that connects the physical and digital worlds, transforming the ways work gets done. With relentless innovation in precise positioning, modeling and data analytics, Trimble enables essential industries including construction, geospatial and transportation. Whether it's helping customers build and maintain infrastructure, design and construct buildings, optimize global supply chains or map the world, Trimble is at the forefront, driving productivity and progress. For more information about Trimble (Nasdaq:TRMB), visit: www.trimble.com. What Makes This Role Great: In this role, you will elevate data governance from policy documents into an automated practice, empowering a global network of domain stewards and directly shaping certified data foundations for enterprise AI activation.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in enterprise data management, with 7+ years leading data governance practices in distributed, federated environments.
Proven success establishing operational governance practices, steward enablement networks, and facilitating executive steering bodies.
Demonstrated ability to translate policies into automated pipeline controls, quality gates, and data contracts.
Strong technical fluency with modern data stacks including Snowflake, enterprise catalogs like Atlan, Monte Carlo observability, and dbt.
Exceptional cross-functional leadership skills with a direct, concise, and metric-driven communication style.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience contributing data trust inputs to dedicated AI Governance or AI Safety frameworks.
Experience operating within Data Mesh or Data-as-a-Product topologies, alongside exposure to Master Data Management tools like Reltio.
Global enterprise experience across AMER, EMEA, and APAC regions, grounded in DCAM, CDMP, or DAMA-DMBOK v2 frameworks.

Responsibilities

Establish and scale the enterprise domain governance operating model, maturity frameworks, and self-service enablement tools across all business sectors. Deliver playbooks, onboarding, role certifications, and operating cadences. Executive alignment - operationalize the EDGC. Keep executive domain owners engaged through clear business value metrics.
Translate enterprise data policies into automated, shift-left controls directly embedded within modern data platform deployment pipelines. Drive standard execution across data classification, lifecycle retention, schema definitions, and automated Data Contracts between producers and consumers. Integrate governance gates directly into the Scaffold/DPX medallion architecture.
Define enterprise data quality standards, operationalize observability tools, and enforce strict certification criteria for Gold-tier data assets.
Partner with the Enterprise AI Governance team to ensure trusted, privacy-compliant data feeds directly power AI models, RAG pipelines, and agent frameworks.
Drive enterprise data catalog adoption, establish metadata curation standards, and deliver transparent end-to-end data lineage across systems.
Partner closely with Legal, Privacy, Information Security, and GRC to ensure governance policies fulfill global regulatory obligations (GDPR, CCPA). Work closely with Cloud Platform and IT teams to embed governance rules into automated deployment pipelines. Enable domain teams in AECO and Field Systems to move fast safely without creating central approval bottlenecks.