Transportation Data Steward: Lead Data Standards & Reuse

HDR; Bend (OR); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee ownership benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

HDR is seeking a Transportation Data Steward embedded in the Transportation Business Group. This leadership role shapes how data is defined, shared, and reused across HDR’s Transportation discipline to enable trusted insights and superior project delivery.

The position emphasizes collaboration with subject matter experts and technical authorities, driving adoption of data standards, and enabling teams to define data once and reuse it across projects and time.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in related field.
• 10+ years of experience in the Resources engineering industry.
• Experience leading diverse teams.
• Ability to work cooperatively with other leaders, operations managers, technical directors and marketing managers.
• Committed to quality, improvement, and HDR values.
• Active participant in our employee-owned culture.

Responsibilities

• Establish SME network 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 supporting 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, 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

Cross-functional collaboration

Data governance

Data management

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in related field

Job description

HDR is seeking a Transportation Data Steward embedded in the Transportation Business Group. This leadership role shapes how data is defined, shared, and reused across HDR’s Transportation discipline to enable trusted insights and superior project delivery.

The position emphasizes collaboration with subject matter experts and technical authorities, driving adoption of data standards, and enabling teams to define data once and reuse it across projects and time.