Strategic Resources Data Steward — Power & Industrial

HDR; Tacoma (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee ownership

Competitive benefits

Job summary

HDR is seeking a Resources Business Group Data Steward to shape how our data is defined, used, and reused across the Business Group and HDR. This leadership role focuses on making data simpler, more useful, and more connected to how we do business today and in the future.

You will lead data glossary efforts, governance, and a SME network across practice areas, collaborating with HDR Data Operations and the Technology Leadership Team to drive adoption and analytics readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, engineering, data science, business, computer science, or related discipline.
• Minimum 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.
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee‑owned culture is a must.

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

Change management

Data governance

Team leadership

Education

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

Job description

HDR is seeking a Resources Business Group Data Steward to shape how our data is defined, used, and reused across the Business Group and HDR. This leadership role focuses on making data simpler, more useful, and more connected to how we do business today and in the future.

You will lead data glossary efforts, governance, and a SME network across practice areas, collaborating with HDR Data Operations and the Technology Leadership Team to drive adoption and analytics readiness.