Ontology Specialist

Ontology Specialist- contract role- outside IR 35- Work from Home • Remote with rare travel to the client. • Day rate- up to £750 pay – Outside ir35 • 18 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.