Strategic Data Steward, Resources Power/Waste/Industrial

HDR; Tucson (AZ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee ownership

Tuition reimbursement

Retirement plan with employer match

Employee referral bonus

Job summary

HDR, a leader in engineering and technology, seeks a Resources Business Group Data Steward to shape how data is defined, shared, and reused across HDR. This leadership role drives governance, data glossary development, and standardization to enable faster, more reliable analytics and decision making.

You will collaborate with HDR Data Operations and the Technology Leadership Team, report to the Resources Technology Director, and champion HDR’s employee‑owned culture with a strong focus on data

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.

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 governance

Strategic leadership

Change management

Data stewardship

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Job description

HDR, a leader in engineering and technology, seeks a Resources Business Group Data Steward to shape how data is defined, shared, and reused across HDR. This leadership role drives governance, data glossary development, and standardization to enable faster, more reliable analytics and decision making.

You will collaborate with HDR Data Operations and the Technology Leadership Team, report to the Resources Technology Director, and champion HDR’s employee‑owned culture with a strong focus on data