Resources Data Steward (Power/Industrial/Waste)

HDR; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee ownership

Competitive benefits

Job summary

HDR seeks a strategic-minded Resources Business Group Data Steward to define, share, and reuse data across HDR’s Business Group and Practices. This leadership role focuses on simplifying data, improving usefulness, and connecting data to HDR’s operations today and in the future.

The role reports to the Resources Business Group Technology Director with a dotted line to the Digital Design Lead, collaborating with HDR Data Operations and Technology Leadership to drive analytics, automation, and AI

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, engineering, data science, business, computer science, or related field.
• 10+ years of strategic leadership and data-focused solutions experience.
• Experience within the architecture, engineering, and construction industry.
• Active participation in HDR’s employee-owned culture.

Responsibilities

• Serve 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 lead a RBG SME network to align practices and share lessons learned.
• 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

Strategic leadership

Team leadership

Change management

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Education

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

Job description

HDR seeks a strategic-minded Resources Business Group Data Steward to define, share, and reuse data across HDR’s Business Group and Practices. This leadership role focuses on simplifying data, improving usefulness, and connecting data to HDR’s operations today and in the future.

The role reports to the Resources Business Group Technology Director with a dotted line to the Digital Design Lead, collaborating with HDR Data Operations and Technology Leadership to drive analytics, automation, and AI