Strategic Data Steward, Resources (Power/Waste/Industrial)

HDR; Columbia Township (MO); 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, used, and reused across the Business Group. This leadership role focuses on simplifying data, aligning terms, and enabling reuse across projects and teams to drive better decisions.

You will work with HDR Data Operations and Technology Leadership to promote data fluency, governance, and high-quality data that supports analytics, automation, and AI initiatives in HDR’s diverse service lines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, engineering, data science, business, computer science, or related discipline.
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in a related field.
• Experienced in development and management of diverse teams.
• Ability to work cooperatively with other leaders, operations managers, technical directors and marketing managers.
• Committed to HDR values and employee ownership culture.

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

Stakeholder collaboration

Strategic leadership

Change management

Education

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

Job description

HDR is seeking a strategic-minded Resources Business Group Data Steward to shape how our data is defined, used, and reused across the Business Group. This leadership role focuses on simplifying data, aligning terms, and enabling reuse across projects and teams to drive better decisions.

You will work with HDR Data Operations and Technology Leadership to promote data fluency, governance, and high-quality data that supports analytics, automation, and AI initiatives in HDR’s diverse service lines.