Enterprise Data Manager (Data steward)

We are seeking a Lead Enterprise Data Manager (Individual Contributor) to drive data ownership, standards, and lifecycle practices across a global organisation, to join our team in Prague (hybrid office set up).

The Lead Enterprise Data Manager works closely with global business leaders, application owners, AI teams, and governance functions to bring consistency and clarity to how data is defined, managed, and used. This is a senior, hands-on individual contributor role that operates through influence, standards, and strategic partnership with application owners, business teams, and technology stakeholders.

In this role, you will act as a thought leader and key driver of enterprise data governance practices, setting direction, shaping standards, and enabling adoption across the organisation.

This position is ideal for someone who thrives in complex, distributed environments and is motivated by improving data quality and usability at enterprise scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, own, and evolve enterprise data standards, definitions, and quality expectations across business applications and collaboration platforms
• Partner with senior application owners and business stakeholders to establish and enforce clear data ownership and accountability
• Lead improvements of data and content lifecycle practices, including creation, maintenance, quality management, retention, and retirement
• Define and drive adoption of document and content classification levels (e.g., public, internal, confidential, restricted) to ensure information is handled, shared, and retained appropriately across collaboration and business systems
• Ensure classification standards are scalable, consistently applied, and aligned with security, privacy, and compliance requirements
• Identify, prioritize, and lead remediation efforts of data and content quality issues, such as duplication, inconsistent naming, outdated content, or unclear ownership
• Enable analytics, automation, and AI use cases by ensuring data and content are reliable, well-structured, and enterprise-ready
• Drive the adoption of data and information governance practices through guidance, frameworks, documentation, and lightweight but effective controls
• Collaborate with architecture, integration, analytics, AI, and security teams to ensure consistent and scalable handling of enterprise data and content across platforms
• Act as a subject matter expert and internal advisor on data governance, influencing decision-making at senior levels

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience in data management, data governance, information management, or related roles
• Proven experience leading or driving enterprise-wide data governance initiatives in complex environments
• Hands-on experience working with enterprise SaaS applications and collaboration platforms (e.g., SharePoint, Confluence, Salesforce or similar)
• Strong understanding of data quality, data lifecycle management, and information classification concepts (e.g., privacy level of documentation)
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive change across teams without direct authority
• Strong communication skills in English, with the ability to translate governance strategy into practical, actionable guidance

You can look forward to:

• Flexible working schedule (no core hours) 
• 25 days of paid time off 
• 3 Sick Days 
• 2 days of paid Volunteering Leave per year to get involved in your local community or in a cause that matters to you 
• Hybrid work environment, with home-office allowance
• Meal allowance
• Pension Contribution  
• Life & Disability Insurance
• A team of passionate professionals who are experts in their fields
• Events for employees to learn, celebrate and socialise (training sessions, hackathons, parties, sports events, board game gatherings, BBQs) and much more

Tricentis Core Values:

Knowing what we need to achieve and how to achieve it is important. Tricentis core values define our ways of working and the behaviors we model that create an enjoyable and successful Tricentis life.

Demonstrate Self-Awareness: Own your strengths and limitations.

Finish What We Start: Do what we say we are going to do.

Move Fast: Create momentum and efficiency.

Run Towards Change: Challenge the status quo.

Serve Our Customers & Communities: Create a positive experience with each interaction.

Solve Problems Together: We win or lose as one team.

Think Big & Believe: Set extraordinary goals and believe you can achieve them.

About Tricentis:  
Tricentis is a software company officially founded in 2007, with primary focus on software quality assurance. Whether exploratory or automated, functional or performance, API or UI, as well as  mainframes or custom applications or packaged applications, or cloud-native applications - our comprehensive suite of specialized Continuous Testing tools makes DevOps real by giving our clients the confidence to release on-demand.  
 
Tricentis has more than 1500 employees working in across over 20 global offices in US, EMEA, APAC serving over 2100 customers, and currently expanding our R&D centers to two new locations in the Czech Republic – Prague and Brno - Hybrid office environment. 

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Tricentis is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, gender, religious affiliation, age, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or physical and mental disability and other statuses protected by law.

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We comply with all applicable global sanctions and export control laws. Candidates must not be listed on any government restricted party lists (including OFAC SDN List and U.S. Commerce Department restricted lists) and must certify that their employment would not violate any sanctions or export control regulations. Candidates must notify us of any changes to their status during the application process or subsequent employment.