Transportation Data Steward: Lead Data Standards & Delivery

HDR; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Retirement savings plan with employer

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

HDR is seeking a Transportation Data Steward to lead data governance across HDR's Transportation Business Group. This leadership role coordinates SMEs and technical authorities to define data standards and terminology, ensuring data is defined once and reused across projects.

The role emphasizes enablement, collaboration, and impact on decision making, data reuse, and project delivery excellence. It is an in-office position across HDR offices in the United States.

Qualifications

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

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.
• Promote data fluency across the Transportation Business Group
• 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.

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 governance across HDR's Transportation Business Group. This leadership role coordinates SMEs and technical authorities to define data standards and terminology, ensuring data is defined once and reused across projects.

The role emphasizes enablement, collaboration, and impact on decision making, data reuse, and project delivery excellence. It is an in-office position across HDR offices in the United States.