Federal Business Group Data Steward

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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 in less time cleaning up data and more time delivering. For technical staff, it means clearer expectations and fewer one off requests. For leaders, it means faster, more consistent answers and greater confidence in the insights they rely on. For HDR, it means enterprise and project data that is ready to support analytics, automation, and AI in a way that reflects how we work.

This role is about making data simpler, more useful, and more connected to the way we do business, today and in the future.

What You’ll Do

• Establish and coordinate a network of SME expertise across the Federal practice to define technical standards, while ensuring alignment to Federal 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.

• Work with Federal Support Group, Federal Marketing Team, Compliance, and Project teams to understand standards and governance for federal project and contract data, ensuring consistency across HDR systems and alignment with FPDS and other government procurement records.

• Partner with Federal Support Group, Federal Marketing Team, Compliance, and Project teams to improve data quality, resolve discrepancies, and maintain a single source of truth for federal data.

• Define and steward key federal data elements, including federal-specific requirements (connectivity of task orders and IDIQs/IDCs, PIIDs, UEIs, Small Business compliance, etc.), clients, and project marketing data, to support compliance, reporting, analytics, and growth initiatives.

• Drive adoption of data standards and accountability practices that enable accurate reporting and informed decision-making using trusted AI and automation solutions.

• Collaborate with other Business Group Data Stewards while advocating for Federal Business Group system requirements and improvements.

• Promote consistent, responsible use of technical data, including access, data quality, Federal practice for format, and reuse.

• Support governance of externally sourced datasets (access, approvals, inventory awareness, storage, and lifecycle considerations).

• Promote data fluency across the Federal Market Sectors.

• Coordinate with the Technology Director and Professional Services and Delivery Director to align data workflows and initiatives to Federal Strategy.

• Lead change management efforts to drive adoption of data standards, practices, and tools across the Federal practice.

• 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 Federal programs are aligned to data strategy.

What This Role Is

• Embedded in the Federal Business Group (not an IT role).

• Enablement-focused and collaborative.

• Part of technology leadership, focused on supporting effective project delivery.

• Connected to a broader Data Steward network.

• Focused on defining and enabling use of Federal and service line data.

People Who Would be a Great Fit

• Understand how data is delivered, defined and used in the federal industryand on projects.

• Trusted by peers and leaders.

• Can translate complex practices into clear, usable guidance.

• Are comfortable making decisions and driving consensus?

• Have strong data fluency (and curiosity to keep learning).

• 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.

• This role is not intended for early-career staff or as a learning assignment, but for established leaders with influence and credibility.

What Success Looks Like

This role establishes repeatable data practices by defining how data is captured, structured, governed, and reused across systems, workflows, and delivery teams. Success depends on driving adoption and aligning people, process, and technology rather than owning technical definitions in isolation.

• Maintaining a Federal service line data glossary that people use.

• BGs have a well-known, go-to steward who can train staff and answer data questions.

• Data definitions and classifications translate into data models and AI tools that are reliable and structured enough to answer the questions leaders and teams care about.

• Teams have the tools available to them to effectively leverage data for their project delivery and pursuits.

• Teams proactively reference shared definitions instead of creating local terminology.

Preferred Qualifications\:

• Ten years of strategic leadership experience focused on growing, developing and leading Federal 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.

• Demonstrated experience managing, governing, or analyzing federal contract, project, and procurement data, including familiarity with FPDS, SAM.gov, federal contract vehicles, and government reporting requirements.

• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, establish data standards, and influence diverse stakeholders across business development, contracts, compliance, operations, and project delivery organizations.