Senior Data Analyst

Overview

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. As we foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves:
What is our impact on the world?

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Each and every role throughout our organization makes a difference in our ability to change the world for the better. Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around the world.

We believe water is more than a resource, it's a shared responsibility. As part of our Water Business Group, you'll help shape how communities manage water for generations to come. From delivering safe drinking water and treating wastewater responsibly to developing sustainable water supplies and protecting lives and property through flood control, your work will directly support public health, environmental sustainability, and infrastructure resilience.

We bring together experts across disciplines to solve complex challenges with bold thinking and technical excellence. Whether you're modernizing aging systems or pioneering innovative approaches, your contributions will make a meaningful difference in people's lives. This isn't just a job, it's a chance to lead change, drive progress, and leave a lasting legacy.

• Assist with the development and maintenance of custom tools, GIS extensions and applications
• Prepare reports and memoranda to document technical work
• Provide project management, administrative, and technical support
• Handle highly sensitive and confidential information with professionalism and discretion
• Collaborate with stakeholders to improve business decisions by identifying patterns and trends in data
• Develop data products including reports, visualizations, and dashboards
• Adhere to software and data science development standards
• Perform data acquisition, sourcing, cleaning, and exploratory data analysis (EDA)
• Transform raw data into usable attributes for machine learning modules through feature engineering
• Manage model lifecycle including development, deployment, data drift detection, model retraining, and model inference
• Create automated data pipelines and data engineering solutions
• Develop advanced and custom predictive models (classification, regression, time series, neural networks, and natural language processing)
• Leverage predictive models to optimize business results
• Mitigate bias and promote data privacy, ethics, transparency, explainability, and fairness in data science models
• Provide technical leadership and expertise on projects with cross functional teams
• Mentor, train, and develop team members and data science practices in the organization
• Identify, organize, and develop long term business and technology plans for data science strategies
• Tune models with training, hyperparameters with comprehensive validation and testing processes
• Leverage predictive models to optimize business results

• Bachelor's degree
• Experience providing data science services in the utilities or public infrastructure space, with a preferred focus on water utilities
• A minimum of 7 years' experience in a data science role
• Academic or professional experience with generative AI services

• A degree in a closely related field or combination of education and relevant experience
• A minimum of 5 years experience with data engineering tools and languages such as SQL, Power Query, and Pandas
• A minimum of 5 years experience with business intelligence tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Plotly, Seaborn, and Matplotlib
• A minimum of 5 years experience with data science languages such as Python and R
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented professional, ability to multitask a must
• Proficiency with MS Office including Word and Outlook
• Ability to handle confidential information
• Excellent writing and people skills
• Strong math and organizational skills
• Flexibility and ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks and various managers in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including grammar, punctuation, proofreading, spelling and telephone skills
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must
• In-depth knowledge of machine learning algorithms, statistical models, and data analytics
• Experience leading multiple complex data science projects
• Experience leading and mentoring junior data scientists
• Experience setting the strategic direction of data management, data science practices and technology planning

HDR is our company. Together, we build on each other's life experiences and perspectives to make great things possible every day. This shapes our collaborative culture, encourages organizational trust and connects us closer to the clients and communities we serve.

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