Transportation Data Steward: Lead Data Governance

HDR; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee ownership

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

HDR is seeking a Transportation Data Steward embedded in the Transportation Business Group to lead data definitions, standards, and governance across disciplines. This leadership role focuses on enabling data reuse, improving project delivery, and aligning teams to enterprise data practices.

The role is in-office and can be based in any HDR US office, with responsibility for coordinating SME expertise, driving data definitions, and enabling data-driven decisions across HDR projects.

Qualifications

• 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 the Resources engineering industry.
• 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, HDR values.
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must.

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

Data governance

Data stewardship

Leadership

Change management

Data modeling

Stakeholder engagement

Education

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

Job description

HDR is seeking a Transportation Data Steward embedded in the Transportation Business Group to lead data definitions, standards, and governance across disciplines. This leadership role focuses on enabling data reuse, improving project delivery, and aligning teams to enterprise data practices.

The role is in-office and can be based in any HDR US office, with responsibility for coordinating SME expertise, driving data definitions, and enabling data-driven decisions across HDR projects.