Transportation Data Steward: Lead Data Standards & Alignment

HDR; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

HDR is seeking a Transportation Data Steward to lead data standardization and governance within HDR's Transportation Business Group. The role is embedded, enabling teams to define, align, and reuse data across disciplines and service lines to improve project delivery.

Based in an HDR office in the United States, you will coordinate SME expertise, drive data definitions, and enable shared data practices that support analytics, automation, and AI 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, 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

• 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

Education

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

Job description

HDR is seeking a Transportation Data Steward to lead data standardization and governance within HDR's Transportation Business Group. The role is embedded, enabling teams to define, align, and reuse data across disciplines and service lines to improve project delivery.

Based in an HDR office in the United States, you will coordinate SME expertise, drive data definitions, and enable shared data practices that support analytics, automation, and AI across HDR projects.