Federal Business Group Data Steward

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At HDR, our employee ownership model shapes everything we do, including how we support and care for our people. Our diverse service lines, including Water, Architecture, Building Engineering Services, Field Services, Power, Waste, Industrial, and Transportation reflect our commitment to shaping resilient, sustainable, and forward thinking communities around the world. Across these disciplines, our teams design and deliver solutions that safeguard public health, enhance quality of life, power innovation, and drive responsible growth. Whether advancing clean water, creating healing and learning environments, engineering next generation facilities, or building the infrastructure that moves people and energy, our work is rooted in technical excellence and a shared sense of purpose. Our employee owners collaborate across specialties, combining creativity, precision, and deep expertise to solve the most complex challenges facing our clients and communities.

This role shapes how our data is defined, used, and reused across our Federal Programs and HDR.

We’re looking for a Federal Data Steward to help bring clarity and consistency to how data is defined, shared, and used across all Federal Market Sectors and their embodied service lines within HDR. This is a leadership role, not an IT or compliance position, and it plays a key part in enabling better business decisions, data reuse, and project delivery excellence.

This role is not expected to be the subject matter expert across all Federal business lines. Instead, the Federal Data Steward defines how data practices are established, aligned, and sustained across the HDR Federal practice by coordinating and enabling subject matter experts and technical authorities within each domain. This role is ideal for technical leaders who can shape “how work gets done” and extend that influence on how data supports our business. This role exists to empower our teams to define data once, understand it the same way, and reuse it confidently across projects, teams, and time.

This business leadership role connects operations, business development, contracting, compliance, and project delivery to establish common data standards and accountability across Federal Market Sectors.

Key responsibilities
include aligning HDR's internal data with external government sources such as SAM.gov and FPDS, promoting data quality and ownership, and enabling consistent reporting, compliance, marketing, and business development activities. The role works with federal subject matter experts and business leaders to define, maintain, and govern critical data throughout its lifecycle, helping teams confidently reuse trusted information across projects, contracts, and systems.

The Federal Data Steward serves as the advocate for Federal data quality and data accountability, helping teams understand how project information entered during project execution ultimately supports contract compliance, federal reporting, corporate analytics, market intelligence, and strategic business decisions.

Why This Role Matters

Across the company, we all rely on data to plan work, deliver projects, answer questions, and make decisions. But when data is defined differently from team to team, project to project, or region to region, it becomes harder to trust, harder to reuse, and harder to scale. People spend time reconciling definitions, rebuilding datasets, or explaining what something really means instead of using the data to drive decisions that move work forward. Data Stewardship helps fix this at the source.

By clearly defining how our data aligns to proper business terminology, and by creating a shared understanding of data for our delivery teams, this role will support turning our data into solutions that our Federal practice and employees can confidently use, reuse, and build upon. It reduces confusion, prevents rework, and makes it easier for teams to answer questions to deliver their work without needing to start from scratch every time.

For project teams, this will result