Ontology Specialist
Posted Today by Careerwise
£650 Per day
Outside
Remote
Manchester Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Ontology Specialist role is a contract position focused on hands-on ontology building for a global client, primarily working from home with occasional travel. The specialist will design, implement, and maintain ontologies and taxonomies to support data integration and collaborate with various teams to ensure alignment with cross-functional needs. The position requires proficiency in ontology development tools and an understanding of enterprise data modeling. The role anticipates significant evolution in responsibilities due to advancements in automation and large language models.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain ontologies and taxonomies for data integration.
- Collaborate with data scientists to ensure ontologies meet cross-functional needs.
- Translate complex scientific and technical concepts into structured data formats.
- Collaborate with information architects and technical teams from other departments.
- Utilize ontology development and data curation tools such as RDF/GitHub, Protégé, and Neo4j.
- Ensure high data quality and consistency by implementing quality checks and validation rules.
- Adapt to changes due to automated tools and large language models.
- Design, build, and maintain taxonomies and controlled vocabularies using Progress Semaphore.
Key Skills:
- Proficiency in ontology development and data curation tools.
- Understanding of enterprise data modeling tools such as IDERA E/R Studio.
- Experience with data catalog tools like Collibra.
- Ability to translate complex concepts into structured data formats.
- Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams.
- Adaptability to rapid changes in technology and processes.
- Experience in implementing quality checks and validation rules.
Salary (Rate): £650 daily
City: Manchester Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Ontology Specialist- contract role- outside IR 35- Work from Home Remote with rare travel to the client. Day rate- up to £650 pay – Outside ir35 12 months contract The role is hands on Ontology building as day-to-day job for one of our global clients Design, implement, and maintain ontologies and taxonomies to support data integration. Collaborate with data scientists to ensure ontologies meet cross-functional needs. Translate complex scientific and technical concepts into structured data formats for use in data models and real-time analytics tools. Collaborate with information architects and technical teams from other departments. Use of ontology development and data curation tools such as RDF/GitHub, Protégé and Neo4j to design, build, maintain and visualise ontologies. Understanding of enterprise data modelling tools such as IDERA E/R Studio and data catalogue tools such as Collibra. Adapt to rapid changes due to the introduction of automated tools and large language models (LLMs) and automation, anticipating significant evolution in responsibilities over the coming years. Ensure high data quality and consistency by implementing quality checks and validation rules for ontology-driven systems and processes. Use of ontology development and data curation tools such as Progress Semaphore to design, build and maintain taxonomies, controlled vocabularies and collections.