Water Data Steward & Standards Lead

HDR; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

HDR seeks a data governance and standards leader embedded in the Water Business Group to define data terms, align data workflows, and promote responsible data use across projects. You will coordinate with senior stakeholders, drive adoption of data practices, and ensure alignment with enterprise data strategy.

With a strong background in data-centric solutions and at least 10–15 years in the Water sector, you will influence technology decisions and shape how data is captured, shared, and applied

Qualifications

• 10 years of strategic leadership experience focused on growing, developing and leading teams in change management and working with data.
• 15 years of overall experience providing diverse data-centric solutions and services to an organization and the industry.
• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, engineering, data science, business, computer science, or related discipline or equivalent related experience.

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.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Change management

Data governance

Data strategy

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Water industry knowledge

Communication

Education

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

Job description

HDR seeks a data governance and standards leader embedded in the Water Business Group to define data terms, align data workflows, and promote responsible data use across projects. You will coordinate with senior stakeholders, drive adoption of data practices, and ensure alignment with enterprise data strategy.

With a strong background in data-centric solutions and at least 10–15 years in the Water sector, you will influence technology decisions and shape how data is captured, shared, and applied