Transportation Data Steward: Strategy & Governance

HDR; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Disability & life insurance

Retirement savings with employer match

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time away & holidays

Job summary

HDR is seeking a Transportation Data Steward for an in-office role based in the United States. This leadership position defines how transportation data is established, aligned, and reused across the Transportation Business Group, coordinating subject matter experts and technical authorities to enable better business decisions and project delivery.

The role emphasizes enablement, collaboration, and influence over data practices rather than IT ownership, with a focus on scalable data definitions

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.

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 leadership

Change management

Data governance

Strategic collaboration

Cross-functional leadership

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 for an in-office role based in the United States. This leadership position defines how transportation data is established, aligned, and reused across the Transportation Business Group, coordinating subject matter experts and technical authorities to enable better business decisions and project delivery.

The role emphasizes enablement, collaboration, and influence over data practices rather than IT ownership, with a focus on scalable data definitions