Senior Resources Data Steward (Power & Industrial)

HDR; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance and dental

Vision benefits

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Retirement plan with employer match

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee ownership

Job summary

HDR is seeking a strategic-minded Resources Business Group Data Steward to shape how our data is defined, used, and reused across a Business Group and HDR. This leadership role focuses on simplifying data, increasing usefulness, and connecting data to how we do business, today and in the future.

The position reports to the Resources Business Group Technology Director with a dashed line to the Digital Design Lead, and partners with HDR Data Operations and Technology Leadership.

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.

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 stewardship

Data governance

Data quality

Leadership

Education

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

Tools

SME network

Job description

HDR is seeking a strategic-minded Resources Business Group Data Steward to shape how our data is defined, used, and reused across a Business Group and HDR. This leadership role focuses on simplifying data, increasing usefulness, and connecting data to how we do business, today and in the future.

The position reports to the Resources Business Group Technology Director with a dashed line to the Digital Design Lead, and partners with HDR Data Operations and Technology Leadership.