Transportation Data Steward Lead: Standards & Governance

HDR; Austin (TX); 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 leader to define how data is captured, defined, and reused across the Transportation Business Group. This role coordinates SMEs and technical authorities to enable consistent data practices across projects and time.

The position emphasizes enablement over IT, driving data reuse, and improving project delivery while aligning with HDR’s employee-owned culture.

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.
• Experience in development and management of diverse teams.
• Ability to work cooperatively with other leaders, operations managers, technical directors and marketing managers.
• Committed to HDR values.
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must.

Responsibilities

• Establish SME network 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

Leadership

Strategic planning

Change management

Data architecture

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in relevant field

Job description

HDR is seeking a Transportation Data Steward leader to define how data is captured, defined, and reused across the Transportation Business Group. This role coordinates SMEs and technical authorities to enable consistent data practices across projects and time.

The position emphasizes enablement over IT, driving data reuse, and improving project delivery while aligning with HDR’s employee-owned culture.