Data Management Discipline Leader

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Company Overview Check out this video and find out why our team loves to work here! (https://www.cdmsmith.com/resources/videos/meet-cdm-smith) Join Us! CDM Smith - where amazing career journeys unfold. Imagine a place committed to offering an unmatched employee experience. Where you work on projects that are meaningful to you. Where you play an active part in shaping your career journey. Where your co-workers are invested in you and your success. Where you are encouraged and supported to do your very best and given the tools and resources to do so. Where it's a priority that the company takes good care of you and your family. Our employees are the heart of our company. As an employer of choice, our goal is to provide a challenging, progressive and inclusive work environment which fosters personal leadership, career growth and development for every employee. We value passionate individuals who challenge the norm, deliver world-class solutions and bring diverse perspectives. Join our team, and together we will make a difference and change the world. Job Description CDM Smith is seeking an experienced Environmental Data Management professional to serve as the Environmental Data Management Discipline Leader. This national leadership role is responsible for advancing CDM Smith's environmental data management capabilities by establishing consistent, defensible, and scalable workflows that support project delivery, regulatory compliance, quality assurance/quality control, data validation, and analytics across Environmental Services Group programs. The Environmental Data Management Discipline Leader will provide strategic direction for the firm's use of environmental data management platforms, with a primary focus on EQuIS and related tools used for field data acquisition, laboratory data integration, data validation, reporting, dashboarding, and decision-support analytics. The role is intended to elevate environmental data management from a project-by-project support function to a well-governed technical discipline that improves efficiency, reduces data risk, supports defensible decision-making, and strengthens CDM Smith's market position in environmental consulting. Key Responsibilities Discipline Leadership: Provide national leadership for environmental data management across ESG programs, including strategy, standards, workflows, training, and technical support. Promote consistent data management practices across projects, clients, regulatory programs, and business units. Data Governance and Standards: Develop, implement, and maintain data governance frameworks, standard operating procedures, templates, checklists, and guidance documents for environmental data management. Establish consistent practices for data planning, acquisition, laboratory coordination, electronic data deliverables, database setup, data validation, reporting, and analytics. EQuIS Platform Leadership: Serve as a senior technical leader for EQuIS-based data management, including database strategy, database consolidation, reference value standardization, EDD formats, data loading, data validation workflows, EQuIS Enterprise functionality, permissions coordination, troubleshooting, and integration with reporting and analytics tools. Data Validation and QA/QC Workflows: Lead the development and improvement of defensible data validation and QA/QC workflows, including the appropriate use of EQuIS Data Qualification Module tools, manual review processes, third-party validation support, and project-specific validation strategies for federal, state, industrial, PFAS, and other complex environmental programs. Project Startup an...