Data Abstractor - Full Time

As we foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves: Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around the world. 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.

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 what our data means, and by creating shared understanding of data for our delivery teams, this role will support turning our data into solutions that our business group and employees can confidently use, reuse, and build upon. Your goal will be to reduce confusion, prevent rework, and make it easier for teams to answer questions for their projects and pursuits without needing to start from scratch every time.

For project teams, this will result in less time cleaning up data and more time delivering. For technical staff, it means clearer expectations and fewer one off requests. For HDR, it means enterprise data that is ready to support analytics, automation, and AI in a way that reflects how we work.

HDR is seeking a strategic-minded Resources Business Group Data Steward to shape how our data is defined, used, and reused across a Business Group and HDR. This position is about making data simpler, more useful, and more connected to the way we do business, today and in the future.

We’re looking for the Resources Business Group Data Steward to help bring clarity and consistency to how data is defined, shared, and used across all Business Classes and Practices within the Business Group and throughout HDR. not an IT or compliance position, and it plays a key part in enabling better decisions, reuse, and delivery excellence.

This role directly reports to the Resources Business Group Technology Director with a dashed reporting line to the Resources Business Group Digital Design Lead. In addition, the RBG Data Steward will work in close partnership with HDR Data Operations and the HDR Technology Leadership Team.

This role is ideal for technical leaders who already help shape “how work gets done” and are ready to extend that influence to 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.

You are passionate about being a strategic, comprehensive solutions provider and you embrace the transformational changes of the power, waste, and industrial industries. You’re an ‘ideas’ person with high levels of emotional intelligence which helps you gain greater insight into organizational needs and leverage high performance technical teams to achieve goals.

Things don’t ‘sit’ with you – you have a natural fire within yourself to keep things moving and to keep others focused on the goals of our team in a respectful, professional manner. Work as the RBG data point of contact and leverage SME expertise from our Business Classes and Practices.

Develop and maintain specific data glossary(ies) for key engineering and technical terms with business context.

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).

Work with Enterprise Data Operations to help lead a RBG SME network to align practices and share lessons learned across our business classes and practices.

Promote data fluency across the RBG.

Regularly communicate and collaborate with other BG Data Stewards, BG and Enterprise Data Science Teams, and Enterprise Data Operations staff.

Minimum 10 years of strategic leadership experience focused on growing, developing, and leading teams in change management and business data.

Minimum 15 years of overall experience providing diverse data‑focused solutions and services to an organization and the industry.

Previous experience in the power, industrial and/ or waste sectors is a plus.

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 a related field.

Ability to work cooperatively with other leaders, operations managers, technical directors and marketing managers.

Committed to quality, improvement, and HDR values.

Bachelor’s degree

This shapes our collaborative culture, encourages organizational trust and connects us closer to the clients and communities we serve.

Our eight Employee Network Groups (Asian Pacific, Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), LGBTQ+, People with Disabilities, Veterans, Women, Young Professionals) help create a sense of belonging and foster a supportive environment where everyone is empowered to engage and contribute. We provide 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. Power Schedule: Full-time Employee Status: Regular BusinessClass: Digital Job Posting: Aug 26, 2026

At HDR, we are committed to the principles of employment equity.