Ontologist

**About the Role**:
**Grade Level (for internal use)**: 10
**The Role**: Ontologist
**The Team**: The Ontology and Taxonomy team within Data Strategy and Governance helps to lead fundamental organizational and operational change driving our linked data, open data, and data mining strategy, both internally and externally. The team partners closely with engineering to envision and build the next generation of data architecture and tooling with modern technologies. The global team of Ontologists and Taxonomists is small, but rapidly expanding.
**The Impact**: Ontology efforts occur within the broader context of major strategic initiatives to extend market leadership and build next-generation data, insights and analytics products that are powered by our world class datasets. In short, the Senior Ontologist will work closely with stakeholders in our strategic transformation from a traditional data organization into a next generation interconnected data intelligence organization.
**What’s in it for you**: The Ontologist role is an opportunity to work as an individual contributor in creatively solving complex challenges alongside visionary leadership and colleagues. It’s a role with highly visible initiatives and outsized impact. The wider division has a great culture of innovation, collaboration, and flexibility with a focus on delivery. Every person is respected and encouraged to be their authentic self.

**Responsibilities**:

- Develop, implement, and continue to enhance ontologies, knowledge graphs, and related data architecture for interconnected data, as well as topical/indexed query, search, and asset discovery
- Partner to provide thought leadership for strategic projects ensuring timelines are feasible, work is effectively prioritized, and deliverables met
- Contribute to the strategic semantic vision, roadmap, and next-generation architecture
- Execute on the interconnected data vision by creating linked metadata schemes to harmonize semantics across systems and domains
- Analyze and implement knowledge organization strategies using tools capable of metadata management, ontology management, and semantic enrichment
- Influence and participate in governance bodies to advocate for the use of established semantics

**What we’re looking for**:

- Able to communicate complex technical strategies and concepts in a relatable way to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and executives to effectively persuade and influence
- 3+ years of experience with ontology development, semantic web technologies (RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL) and open-source or commercial semantic editors (e.g., Protege, Mobi, TopQuadrant, PoolParty); Advanced studies in Ontology, Library Science, or related discipline preferred
- 1+ years of experience in advanced data integration with knowledge graph technologies in complex, enterprise-class, multi-system environment(s); skilled in all phases from conceptualization to optimization
- Understanding of the agile development life cycle and the broader Data Management discipline (data governance, data quality, metadata management, reference and master data management)

About S&P Global Commodity Insights
At S&P Global Commodity Insights, our complete view of global energy and commodities markets enables our customers to make decisions with conviction and create long-term, sustainable value.
We’re a trusted connector that brings together thought leaders, market participants, governments, and regulators to co-create solutions that lead to progress. Vital to navigating Energy Transition, S&P Global Commodity Insights’ coverage includes oil and gas, power, chemicals, metals, agriculture and shipping.
S&P Global Commodity Insights is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.
What’s In It For You?
**Our Purpose**:
Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology-the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.
Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.
**Our People**:
We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.
**Our Values**:
Integrity, Discovery, Partnership
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