Data Governance Team Lead - Telematics
Caterpillar Inc. (company site, opens in a new tab)ChennaiOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 20–35 LPA
Posted 11h ago
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Job description
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About This Role
- Lead cross-functional initiatives to establish data definitions, ownership, metadata, quality controls, lineage, and lifecycle processes for connected-product data.
- Improve the consistency and usability of telematics and equipment data; help create reusable, documented data products that support engineering, analytics, digital products, and AI.
- Own initiatives from scoping through implementation and adoption, including roadmaps, milestones, success measures, risk resolution, and stakeholder updates.
Minimum Requirements
- Work Experience Required: Not explicitly mentioned in the JD; relevant experience areas include data governance or metadata/catalogs, connected-product or engineering data, and data engineering or AI/ML data governance.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or another related technical discipline.
- Chennai location; 5 days per week in office. Domestic relocation is mentioned.
- Experience with an enterprise data catalog such as Alation or a comparable platform is specified.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Has worked across data governance and connected-product, telematics, IoT, industrial, or engineering data, and can connect machine-generated data to its downstream use.
- Can lead complex initiatives across engineering, data, platform, and product groups, translating technical decisions and data standards for varied stakeholders.
- Brings practical exposure to data pipelines, APIs, SQL, Python, cloud data platforms, or modern data engineering, with an understanding of data needs for analytics, ML, and generative or agentic AI.