Water Data Steward & Standards Lead

HDR; Bethlehem (Northampton County); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

HDR is seeking a senior data stewardship leader embedded in the Water Business Group to define technical standards and enable reliable data for reporting, automation, and AI use cases.

You will build consensus across a network of SMEs, govern externally sourced datasets, and promote data fluency while aligning data workflows with the Water BG strategy.

This enablement-focused role emphasizes collaboration and impact on project delivery within HDR’s employee-owned culture.

Qualifications

• Ten years of strategic leadership experience focused on growing, developing and leading teams in change management and working with data.
• Fifteen years of experience providing diverse data-centric solutions and services to an organization and the industry.
• Active participation in HDR’s employee-owned culture is a must.

Responsibilities

• Establish and coordinate a network of SME expertise across the Water Business Group to define technical standards.
• 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.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Change management

Data governance

Data fluency

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in architecture, engineering, data science, business, computer science, or related discipline

Job description

HDR is seeking a senior data stewardship leader embedded in the Water Business Group to define technical standards and enable reliable data for reporting, automation, and AI use cases.

You will build consensus across a network of SMEs, govern externally sourced datasets, and promote data fluency while aligning data workflows with the Water BG strategy.

This enablement-focused role emphasizes collaboration and impact on project delivery within HDR’s employee-owned culture.