Transportation Data Steward: Standards & Enablement

HDR; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

HDR is seeking a Transportation Data Steward to lead the definition, alignment, and reuse of Transportation data across HDR's divisions. This leadership role coordinates SME domains and technical authorities to ensure consistent data practices that enable better project delivery and decision making.

The role focuses on enabling data reuse, reducing rework, and simplifying data definitions so teams can access trusted information for analytics, automation, and AI initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, engineering, data science, business, computer science or related field.
• 10+ years of strategic leadership experience focused on growing, developing and leading teams.
• 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.
• Develop and maintain business-aligned data definitions for key engineering and technical terms.
• 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 leadership

Change management

Stakeholder alignment

Communication

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in architecture, engineering, data science, business, computer science

Job description

HDR is seeking a Transportation Data Steward to lead the definition, alignment, and reuse of Transportation data across HDR's divisions. This leadership role coordinates SME domains and technical authorities to ensure consistent data practices that enable better project delivery and decision making.

The role focuses on enabling data reuse, reducing rework, and simplifying data definitions so teams can access trusted information for analytics, automation, and AI initiatives.