Job Description

**NOTE: This is not a technical developer, coding, architecture, or IT engineering position. The ideal candidate is a strong communicator with data management experience who can coach, guide, and coordinate stewardship activities.**

The Enterprise Data Steward will
support VDOT’s Data Program by working directly with assigned data stewards
across the agency to strengthen data management practices, improve data
quality, and prepare datasets for quality measurement within our data
governance tool. In this role, the staff member will facilitate regular
meetings with division-level stewards, guide them through required stewardship
activities, assist in developing scoping documentation, data dictionaries, and
business rules. The staff member will also provide training and hands-on
support to build data literacy and stewardship competency. This position serves
as the primary liaison between assigned business divisions and the agency’s
Data Program, ensuring stewardship activities are well-coordinated, consistent,
and aligned with enterprise data quality priorities. The work focuses on
coaching, coordination, and applying data management expertise to help stewards
prepare their datasets for enterprise data quality measurement. In addition,
this role requires direct client‑facing experience, as the
Enterprise Data Steward will be responsible for managing relationships with
internal data stewards, setting expectations, ensuring follow‑through
on deliverables, and building trust across diverse business areas. The selected
candidate must have demonstrated success serving as the primary point of
contact for clients and leading them through structured processes and
deliverables.

Note

This is not a technical developer,
coding, architecture, or IT engineering position. The ideal candidate is a
strong communicator with data management experience who can coach, guide, and
coordinate stewardship activities.

Key Responsibilities and
Required Abilities

• Serve as the primary
client-facing representative for assigned divisions, owning the relationship,
leading discussions, setting expectations, and ensuring delivery of all
required stewardship activities.

• Build effective, trust‑based
relationships with internal customers by communicating clearly, facilitating
conversations with both technical and non‑technical staff, and guiding
stewards through complex data-related tasks.

• Lead client interactions with
accountability for deliverables, ensuring that stewards understand priorities,
timelines, and governance expectations.

• Coordinate and support assigned
data stewards by facilitating monthly check‑ins, guiding the creation of
required artifacts (scoping, data dictionaries, business rules), serving as the
primary liaison between divisions and the Data Program, and assisting stewards
in preparing datasets for data quality measurement within the agency’s data governance tool.

• Provide training, coaching, and
support on data management, data quality concepts, and data stewardship
practices.

• Support agencywide data quality
and stewardship by providing subject‑area guidance for defining and
measuring data quality, collaborating with system owners and SMEs to resolve
complex data issues, promoting data literacy and consistent data management
practices, and ensuring stewardship activities follow established standards,
frameworks, and governance processes.

Knowledge and Experience Needed

• Strong understanding of data
management principles, data quality concepts, and stewardship processes.

• Demonstrated experience serving
as the primary client contact, responsible for relationship management,
stakeholder engagement, and delivery of customer‑driven outcomes.

• Ability to communicate clearly
verbally and in writing, facilitate group discussions, and guide non-technical
staff in data-related work.

• Experience helping users create
or improve data dictionaries, business rules, or similar documentation.

• Ability to coordinate activities
across divisions, manage priorities, and maintain organized documentation.

• Experience working in data
governance, data stewardship, or a similar business-facing data role.

Tools & Additional Skills

• Familiarity with Collibra
(preferred but not required; training can be provided).

• Proficiency with standard
productivity tools (Excel, SharePoint, Teams, etc.).