Transportation Data Steward: Set Data Standards

HDR; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

HDR is seeking a Transportation Data Steward who will help define and govern data across the Transportation Business Group. This leadership role coordinates SME experts and technical authorities to establish standards and enable data reuse across projects.

The role is embedded in the Transportation BG, not IT, and focuses on enabling delivery excellence, data reuse, and consistent decision-making by guiding data definitions and business terminology across HDR’s multi-location teams.

Qualifications

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

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 definitions

Leadership

Change management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Job description

HDR is seeking a Transportation Data Steward who will help define and govern data across the Transportation Business Group. This leadership role coordinates SME experts and technical authorities to establish standards and enable data reuse across projects.

The role is embedded in the Transportation BG, not IT, and focuses on enabling delivery excellence, data reuse, and consistent decision-making by guiding data definitions and business terminology across HDR’s multi-location teams.