Resources Data Steward: Power, Industrial & Waste

HDR; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Employee ownership culture

Employee Network Groups

Job summary

HDR seeks a strategic Data Steward to shape how our data is defined, used, and reused across the Resources Business Group. This leadership role focuses on data clarity, governance, and enabling better decisions across HDR’s practices and projects.

The position reports to the Resources Business Group Technology Director and partners with HDR Data Operations and the Technology Team to drive data-driven outcomes and scalable analytics across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of strategic leadership experience focused on growing, developing, and leading teams in change management and business data.
• Minimum 15 years of overall experience providing diverse data-focused solutions and services to an organization and the industry.
• Experience within the architecture, engineering, and construction industry.
• Power, industrial and/or waste sector experience is a plus.

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

Leadership

Change management

Data governance

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor’s degree in architecture, engineering, data science, business, computer science, or related discipline

Job description

HDR seeks a strategic Data Steward to shape how our data is defined, used, and reused across the Resources Business Group. This leadership role focuses on data clarity, governance, and enabling better decisions across HDR’s practices and projects.

The position reports to the Resources Business Group Technology Director and partners with HDR Data Operations and the Technology Team to drive data-driven outcomes and scalable analytics across the enterprise.