Strategic Data Steward, Resources Power & Industry

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

Job summary

HDR is seeking a strategic-minded Resources Business Group Data Steward to shape how our data is defined, shared, and reused across a Business Group and HDR. This leadership role drives data clarity, consistency, and reuse across multiple practices and locations.

You will partner with HDR Data Operations and senior leadership to enable data-driven decisions and delivery excellence, while advancing HDR’s employee-owned culture and inclusive environment.

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.
• Previous experience in the power, industrial and/ or waste sectors is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, engineering, data science, business, computer science, or related discipline or equivalent related experience.

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

Strategic leadership

Data governance

Data glossary

Data stewardship

Change management

Team leadership

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

Data governance tools

Job description

HDR is seeking a strategic-minded Resources Business Group Data Steward to shape how our data is defined, shared, and reused across a Business Group and HDR. This leadership role drives data clarity, consistency, and reuse across multiple practices and locations.

You will partner with HDR Data Operations and senior leadership to enable data-driven decisions and delivery excellence, while advancing HDR’s employee-owned culture and inclusive environment.