Metadata & Data Catalog Lead

Metadata & Data Catalog Lead

Location: Portland OR; Westminster CO

Department: Trimble Data Management Office (TDMO)

Job Type: Full-Time

Position Summary

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.

Key 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.

Required Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Compensation: Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation depending on circumstances not related to an applicants sex or other status protected by local state or federal law.

Hiring Range

Pay Rate Type

Bonus Eligible

Commission Eligible

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. If this position is identified above as commission- or bonus-eligible the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date.

How to Apply: Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on the Apply Now button located in this posting.

Application Deadline: Applications could be accepted until at least 30 days from the posting date.

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