Transportation Data Steward & Governance Leader

HDR; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

HDR is seeking a Transportation Data Steward to lead the definition, coordination, and reuse of data across the Transportation Business Group. This leadership role focuses on aligning data practices, coordinating SMEs, and enabling better decision-making and project delivery.

The role emphasizes data governance, standards, and enablement, not IT, with a focus on scalable data usage across HDR projects. In-office role based in HDR offices across the United States, including the Fort Worth area.

Qualifications

• Ten years of strategic leadership experience focused on growing, developing and leading teams in change management and working with data.
• Fifteen years of overall experience providing diverse data-centric solutions and services to an organization and the industry.
• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, engineering, data science, business, computer science, or related discipline or equivalent related experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in the Resources engineering industry.

Responsibilities

• Establish and coordinate a network of SME expertise across the Transportation Business Group to define technical standards, while ensuring alignment to Transportation data practices and enterprise expectations.
• Develop and maintain business-aligned data definitions for key engineering and technical terms that support structured data models, reporting, automation, and AI use cases.
• 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)
• Promote data fluency across the Transportation Business Group
• Coordinate with the Technology Director to align data workflows and initiatives to Transportation BG Strategy
• Lead change management efforts to drive adoption of data standards, practices, and tools across the Transportation BG
• Regularly communicate and collaborate with other Data Stewards, Enterprise Data Science Teams, and Enterprise Data Operations staff.
• Ensure new tools identified for implementation within the Transportation BG are aligned to data strategy.

Skills

Leadership

Change management

Data governance

Data standards

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Job description

HDR is seeking a Transportation Data Steward to lead the definition, coordination, and reuse of data across the Transportation Business Group. This leadership role focuses on aligning data practices, coordinating SMEs, and enabling better decision-making and project delivery.

The role emphasizes data governance, standards, and enablement, not IT, with a focus on scalable data usage across HDR projects. In-office role based in HDR offices across the United States, including the Fort Worth area.