Water Data Steward: Lead Data Standards & Governance

HDR; North Carolina; On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

HDR is seeking a Water Data Steward to shape how data is defined, shared, and used across Water disciplines. This leadership role coordinates subject matter experts and technical authorities to enable data reuse, better decisions, and project delivery excellence.

Embedded in the Water Business Group, this role focuses on defining data practices, enabling repeatable governance, and aligning data workflows with HDR's strategic goals.

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.

Responsibilities

• Establish and coordinate a network of SME expertise across the Water Business Group to define technical standards, while ensuring alignment to Water 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 Water Business Group
• Coordinate with the Technology Director to align data workflows and initiatives to Water BG Strategy
• Lead change management efforts to drive adoption of data standards, practices, and tools across the Water 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 Water BG are aligned to data strategy.

Job description

HDR is seeking a Water Data Steward to shape how data is defined, shared, and used across Water disciplines. This leadership role coordinates subject matter experts and technical authorities to enable data reuse, better decisions, and project delivery excellence.

Embedded in the Water Business Group, this role focuses on defining data practices, enabling repeatable governance, and aligning data workflows with HDR's strategic goals.