DBIA Taxonomist

RoleDBIA Taxonomist
Location – Austin Texas
Job Description:
Must Have – Natural Language Processing (NLP) Graph databases taxonomies
Good to have – PoolParty TopQuadrant Edge GraphDB Ontotext

Taxonomist:
The Digital Business Intelligence and Analytics (DBIA) group at large Technologies company is looking for a Taxonomist to fulfill the creation maintenance and governance of taxonomies as well as manage the attributes associated with them. Stakeholders include the taxonomy governance group ontology governance group product management group taxonomists ontologists system owners business unit stakeholders and IT developers. It is expected that this role will have a heavy communications component including education.
As a Taxonomist this person fulfills the following taxonomy roles: Subject Matter Expert Advocate Stakeholder Requirements Gatherer Agreement Facilitator Project Manager Educator Consultant.
Essential Requirements:
• Minimum 5 years’ experience working in taxonomy management and governance in a large organization.
• Proven record of creating taxonomies from business requirements.
• Experience researching identifying and documenting requirements as well as enforcing standards agreements and charters.
• Understanding of knowledge content management and development as well as search and retrieval tools.
• Basic understanding of semantic ontologies.
• Familiar with NLP engines.

Personal:
• Selfstarter with a curious mind and good discernment.
• Proven ability to navigate through ambiguity.
• Able to work within a complex environment with many stakeholders.
• Fluent in English.
• Available to work during US time zones at least 4 hours/day.

Education
Degrees in Computer Science or Library Science
Minors/Certificates in Data Structures and Algorithms Computational Linguistics

Desirable Requirements:
• Experience with SKOS standards
• Experience working with Graph databases ontologies and Natural Language Processing strategies (NLP) for relevant and robust optimization
• Knowledge of TOMS tools like Semantic Web Pool Party TopQuadrant Edge GraphDB Ontotext a plus.