Trimble Inc. · 3 hours ago
Metadata & Data Catalog Lead
Lake Oswego, OR
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$123K/yr - $165K/yr
5+ years expTrimble Inc. 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, managing the metadata lifecycle and maintaining the data catalog platform.
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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
Qualification
Required
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
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
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Life
Disability
Time off plans
Retirement plans
Tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses
Paid Parental Leave
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Company
Trimble Inc.
Trimble is a global technology company that connects the physical and digital worlds, transforming the ways work gets done.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.02BKey Investors
Bank of America
2022-12-30Post Ipo Debt· $1B
2002-01-15Post Ipo Equity· $19.2M
1990-07-27IPO
Leadership Team
Robert Painter
Chief Executive Officer
Phillip Sawarynski
Chief Financial Officer
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