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 include:
- 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.
Qualifications
Preferred qualifications include:
- 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.
Skills
The ideal candidate should:
- Understand how data is delivered, defined and used in the Water industry and on projects.
- Be trusted by peers and leaders.
- Be able to translate complex practices into clear, usable guidance.
- Be comfortable making decisions and driving consensus.
- Bring a solid technical network you can tap for feedback and alignment.
- Demonstrate credibility in data, technology, and delivery practices and can influence teams through clarity, consistency, and outcomes.
- Able to clearly communicate the importance of data integrity at all levels of the organization.
Benefits
Our commitment to our employees includes:
- A comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee ownership, employee health, performance, and success, which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time away, parental leave, paid holidays, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee referral bonus and tuition reimbursement.
Pay
The expected compensation range for this position is $150,000-$200,000 depending upon skills, experience, education and geographical location.
Schedule
Primary Location: United States - Nebraska - Omaha
Other Locations: United States - North Carolina - Charlotte, United States, United States - Minnesota, United States - Wyoming - Cheyenne, United States - California - Long Beach, United States - Minnesota - Saint Louis Park, United States - Wyoming, United States - Florida - Fort Lauderdale, United States - Pennsylvania - Bethlehem, United States - Oregon - Salem, United States - Maryland - Baltimore, United States - Texas - Fort Worth, United States - Michigan, United States - California - Irvine, United States - Minnesota - Saint Louis Park, United States - Wyoming, United States - Washington - Tacoma, United States - Nevada - Reno, United States - Colorado - Fort Collins, United States - Iowa - Des Moines, United States - New York - Albany, United States - California - Folsom, United States - Oregon - Portland, United States - Washington, United States - Montana - Bozeman, United States - Texas - El Paso, United States - Colorado - Denver, United States - Washington - Seattle, United States - Nevada - Las Vegas, United States - Virginia, United States - Montana - Billings, United States - Texas - Austin, United States - Texas, United States - Virginia - Virginia Beach, United States - Massachusetts - Boston, United States - Kentucky, United States - Colorado - Denver, United States - Oregon - Bend, United States - Missouri - St Louis, United States - South Dakota, United States - Georgia - Savannah, United States - Arizona - Tucson, United States - Pennsylvania - Mechanicsburg, United States - Washington - Olympia, United States - Tennessee, United States - Hawaii - Honolulu, United States - Maryland - Fulton, United States - Arizona - Phoenix, United States - Kentucky - Louisville, United States - North Carolina - Greensboro, United States - Georgia - Atlanta, United States - South Carolina - Greenville, United States - Pennsylvania - Plymouth Meeting, United States - South Carolina - Greenville, United States - Washington - Spokane, United States - Virginia - Arlington, United States - 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