Transportation Data Steward: Standardize Data for Delivery

HDR; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee ownership

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

HDR is seeking a Transportation Data Steward embedded in the Transportation Business Group to define and enable data use across disciplines and service lines. This leadership role coordinates SME expertise to establish standards and governance, enabling data reuse and informed project delivery.

As a non-IT, enablement-focused leader, you will partner with technical authorities and other data stewards to drive adoption of data practices and tools that support analytics, automation, and AI across

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
• 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

Data governance

Data standards

Stakeholder coordination

Data modeling

Communication

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 embedded in the Transportation Business Group to define and enable data use across disciplines and service lines. This leadership role coordinates SME expertise to establish standards and governance, enabling data reuse and informed project delivery.

As a non-IT, enablement-focused leader, you will partner with technical authorities and other data stewards to drive adoption of data practices and tools that support analytics, automation, and AI across