Senior Enterprise Data Steward & Catalog Lead

Penske Truck Leasing Co., L.P.; Reading (Berks County); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Penske Truck Leasing seeks a Lead Enterprise Data Steward to coordinate and operationalize its enterprise data governance program. You will lead stewardship activities across business and technology teams, administer the data catalog, manage metadata, and support master data domains including Location, Vehicle, and Customer.

Role requires strong facilitation, communication, and data governance expertise, with experience inCollibra/Purview/Informatica and data quality management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Business Analytics, Data Management, Computer Science, or related field.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in Data Governance, Data Management, Data Quality, BI, Analytics, MDM, or related disciplines.
• Experience facilitating collaboration between business and technical stakeholders.
• Experience working with metadata, data catalog, or governance technologies.
• Experience supporting cross-functional governance initiatives.
• Experience supporting MDM implementations.
• Experience with Collibra, Purview, Informatica, or similar governance platforms.
• CDMP certification is preferred.
• Experience in transportation, logistics, or fleet management environments.
• Experience developing governance metrics and stewardship programs.
• Strong facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to influence without direct authority.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both business and technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate enterprise data stewardship activities across business and technology domains.
• Establish and promote stewardship processes, responsibilities, and accountability models.
• Facilitate stewardship forums, working groups, and governance meetings.
• Partner with Data Owners and Data Stewards to maintain consistency in data definitions, ownership, and governance practices.
• Serve as escalation point for stewardship and data definition disputes.
• Promote adoption of enterprise governance policies, standards, and procedures.
• Serve as primary administrator for Alation and related metadata management platforms.
• Manage business glossary content, data definitions, ownership assignments, certifications, and stewardship workflows.
• Coordinate metadata onboarding and catalog expansion initiatives.
• Support documentation and maintenance of data lineage, classifications, and metadata standards.
• Ensure metadata quality, completeness, and consistency across enterprise domains.
• Promote enterprise adoption and utilization of data catalog capabilities.
• Support implementation and operationalization of Penske's Data Governance Program.
• Facilitate governance working groups and stakeholder meetings.
• Track governance issues, remediation plans, and stewardship activities.
• Support development and maintenance of governance standards, procedures, and controls.
• Assist with governance maturity assessments and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Help embed governance requirements within projects, applications, and enterprise data initiatives.
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to define data quality requirements, metrics, thresholds, and controls.
• Coordinate identification, prioritization, and resolution of enterprise data quality issues.
• Support root cause analysis and remediation activities.
• Monitor data quality metrics and stewardship performance measures.
• Promote accountability for quality management across governed data assets.
• Partner with Data Engineering teams to support metadata integration, data lineage, and governance automation capabilities.
• Collaborate with the MDM Platform Owner to support governance requirements for master data domains.
• Partner with Security, Privacy, Risk, Compliance, and Legal teams to ensure governance practices support organizational and regulatory requirements.
• Facilitate alignment of governance practices across operational, analytical, and master data assets.
• Promote data ownership and accountability across business functions.
• Develop governance scorecards and stewardship performance reporting.
• Track governance adoption, metadata completeness, stewardship participation, and data quality improvements.
• Produce executive reporting on governance activities and program progress.
• Monitor governance KPIs and recommend corrective actions as needed.
• Identify opportunities to improve governance effectiveness and stewardship efficiency.
• Research industry best practices related to Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata Management, and Master Data Management.
• Recommend process improvements and governance automation opportunities.
• Support implementation of workflow-based governance capabilities and metadata-driven controls.

Skills

Data Governance

Data Stewardship

Data Quality Management

Metadata Management

Business Glossaries

Data Lineage

Master Data concepts

Facilitation

Stakeholder Management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree

CDMP certification

Tools

Collibra

Purview

Informatica

Job description

Penske Truck Leasing seeks a Lead Enterprise Data Steward to coordinate and operationalize its enterprise data governance program. You will lead stewardship activities across business and technology teams, administer the data catalog, manage metadata, and support master data domains including Location, Vehicle, and Customer.

Role requires strong facilitation, communication, and data governance expertise, with experience inCollibra/Purview/Informatica and data quality management.