Strategic Resources Data Steward – Power & Waste

HDR; Springfield (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

HDR is seeking a strategic-minded Resources Business Group Data Steward to define, share, and reuse data across Business Classes and Practices, enabling better decisions and delivery excellence. This leadership role reports to the Technology Director with a dashed line to the Digital Design Lead, collaborating closely with HDR Data Operations and the Technology Leadership Team.

The position emphasizes turning data into simple, useful assets that support analytics, automation, and AI, with a

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.
• 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 quality, improvement, and HDR values.
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee‑owned culture is a must. Bachelor’s degree

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.

Job description

HDR is seeking a strategic-minded Resources Business Group Data Steward to define, share, and reuse data across Business Classes and Practices, enabling better decisions and delivery excellence. This leadership role reports to the Technology Director with a dashed line to the Digital Design Lead, collaborating closely with HDR Data Operations and the Technology Leadership Team.

The position emphasizes turning data into simple, useful assets that support analytics, automation, and AI, with a