Senior BES Data Steward - Building Engineering Services

HDR; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Employee ownership

Medical, dental, vision

Retirement plan with employer match

Paid time away

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

HDR is seeking a BES Data Steward in the Building Engineering Services Group to define and enable data standards across BES disciplines. You will coordinate SME expertise, establish data definitions, and drive consistent data usage to support better decisions and project delivery.

This leadership role focuses on data alignment, reuse, and governance, empowering teams to define data once and reuse it across projects.

Qualifications

• Ten years of strategic leadership experience focused on growing, developing and leading teams in change management and working with data.
• Fifteen years of overall experience providing diverse data centric solutions and services to an organization and the industry.
• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, engineering, data science, business, computer science, or related discipline or equivalent related experience.
• Strong ability to define, align, and enable data practices across a large domain.

Responsibilities

• Establish and coordinate a network of SME expertise across the Building Engineering Services Business Group to define technical standards.
• Develop and maintain business‑aligned data definitions for key engineering and technical terms that support data models.
• Promote consistent, responsible use of technical data and oversee data governance.
• Lead change management efforts to drive adoption of data standards, practices, and tools across the BES BG.
• Regularly communicate with Data Stewards, Enterprise Data teams, and Operations staff.

Skills

Data governance

Data stewardship

Leadership

Change management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

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

Job description

HDR is seeking a BES Data Steward in the Building Engineering Services Group to define and enable data standards across BES disciplines. You will coordinate SME expertise, establish data definitions, and drive consistent data usage to support better decisions and project delivery.

This leadership role focuses on data alignment, reuse, and governance, empowering teams to define data once and reuse it across projects.