Sr. Data Governance Lead

About this role

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. Wh ether 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. Key Exciting Responsibilities: • Data Governance Practice: 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.

• Framework Execution: 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.

• Data Quality, Observability, & Data Product Certification: Define enterprise data quality standards, operationalize observability tools, and enforce strict certification criteria for Gold-tier data assets.

• AI Governance Contribution & Semantic Trust: Partner with the Enterprise AI Governance team to ensure trusted, privacy-compliant data feeds directly power AI models, RAG pipelines, and agent frameworks.

• Metadata, Lineage, & Enterprise Catalog: Drive enterprise data catalog adoption, establish metadata curation standards, and deliver transparent end-to-end data lineage across systems.

• Cross Functional Leadership: 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.

Essential Skills & Experience: • 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.

Bonus Points For: • 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.

Logistics: Location: Westminster, CO or Lake Oswego, OR (4 days in office) Travel Requirement: Up to 10%

Why You'll Love Working With Us: At Trimble, we're not just a company that "does good"—we are a team dedicated to making a tangible, positive Real-World Impact. We build innovative solutions designed to solve the world's most critical challenges. From construction sites to transportation hubs, our work tang ibly improves how people live, build, move, and grow. • You'll work on projects that truly matter: Our purpos e-driven culture means you'll be helping to build and deliver solutions that make work faster, safer, and more sustain a ble for millions of people worldwide. Our impact is tangible, from connected machines that save fuel to data-driven insights that reduce waste.

• Collaborate with like-minded people: Our strong internal cult ure is a "hidden gem." You will work with a collaborative, supportive team that shares your purpose and fosters a genuine sense of belonging. We're a company of "visionary pragmatists" who think boldly and build things that work.

• Be an owner: Trimble thrives on individuals who take initiative and embrace ownership. You'll find an entrepreneurial spirit where success is often "self-authored ," empo wering proactive "doers."

Data Governance, Data Steward, Enterprise Data, Snowflake, Atlan, Monte Carlo, Data Quality, AI Governance, Data Mesh, Data Architecture

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 a

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