Water Business Group Data Steward

About the role

This role shapes how our data is defined, used, and reused across our Water Business Group and HDR. It is a leadership role embedded in the Water Business Group, not an IT or compliance position.

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.
• Cook up 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.

Requirements

Required 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 Water 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.

Preferred 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.

Qualifications

Must have:

• Experience in the Water engineering industry.
• Strong data fluency and ability to translate complex practices into clear, usable guidance.
• Ability to make decisions and drive consensus.
• Strong technical network to tap for feedback and alignment.
• Credibility in data, technology, and delivery practices and can influence teams through clarity, consistency, and outcomes.
• The ability to clearly communicate the importance of data integrity at all levels of the organization.

Skills

Technical leadership skills, data fluency, and the ability to shape "how work gets done" are essential. Must be able to establish repeatable data practices by defining how data is captured, structured, governed, and reused across systems, workflows, and delivery teams.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$150,000 - $200,000 depending upon skills, experience, education and geographical location.

Schedule

Not specified.