Power & Industrial Data Steward

HDR; Pennington (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee ownership

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

HDR is seeking a Resources Business Group Data Steward to define, share, and reuse data across HDR’s Business Group and HDR. This leadership role focuses on making data clearer, more useful, and consistently defined to enable better decisions and delivery excellence.

You will lead governance, glossary development, and cross‑functional collaboration with engineering, operations, and IT teams, reporting to the Resources Technology Director with a dotted line to the Digital Design Lead.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, engineering, data science, business, computer science, or related discipline or equivalent related experience.
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in a related field.
• Experienced in development and management of diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Work as the RBG data point of contact and leverage SME expertise from our Business Classes and Practices.
• Develop and maintain specific data glossary(ies) for key engineering and technical terms with business context.
• Use your technical network to build alignment and consensus around data processes, priority, and expected use.
• Promote consistent, responsible use of technical data, including access, data quality, best practice for format, and reuse.
• Support governance of externally sourced datasets (access, approvals, inventory awareness, storage, and lifecycle considerations).
• Work with Enterprise Data Operations to help lead a RBG SME network to align practices and share lessons learned across our business classes and practices.
• Promote data fluency across the RBG.
• Regularly communicate and collaborate with other BG Data Stewards, BG and Enterprise Data Science Teams, and Enterprise Data Operations staff.

Skills

Data governance

Strategic leadership

Change management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

HDR is seeking a Resources Business Group Data Steward to define, share, and reuse data across HDR’s Business Group and HDR. This leadership role focuses on making data clearer, more useful, and consistently defined to enable better decisions and delivery excellence.

You will lead governance, glossary development, and cross‑functional collaboration with engineering, operations, and IT teams, reporting to the Resources Technology Director with a dotted line to the Digital Design Lead.