For adverts- Ontology Specialist

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.