Overview
Client is seeking an AI-Ready Knowledge Architect to design and maintain enterprise information architecture that supports data cataloging, self-service data understanding, trusted analytics, and AI-ready knowledge usage.
Core Responsibilities
- Lead the development and maintenance of enterprise data domain models, taxonomies, and ontologies.
- Design and evolve information and semantic models that support BI, machine learning, LLM-based search, RAG, and copilots.
- Operationalize data models, taxonomies, and semantic structures through Alation.
- Define and enforce standards for data modeling, taxonomy, nomenclature, and semantic structures.
- Document prioritized metadata elements for key business processes, analytical use cases, and AI-enabled workflows.
- Reduce redundancy, converge overlapping datasets, and promote canonical sources.
- Partner with analytics, data science, and AI engineering teams to support explainable, governed, and trustworthy AI outcomes.
Essential Qualifications, Skills, and Technologies
- 7-10 years of experience with data, metadata, and reference data frameworks.
- Experience with metadata management and/or data quality monitoring.
- Experience leading enterprise business glossaries, domain models, and ontologies.
- Understanding of semantic models, metadata, and knowledge representation for applied AI and LLM use cases.
- Strong knowledge of data and metadata management principles, business analysis, and process engineering.
- Experience with enterprise data catalogs such as Alation, Collibra, Microsoft Purview, or DataHub.
- Experience with knowledge graphs, ontology modeling, taxonomies, semantic normalization, and entity/relationship modeling.
- Experience with graph technologies such as Neo4j, Stardog, Amazon Neptune, or Azure Cosmos DB Graph.
- Familiarity with OWL, RDF, SKOS, Prote ge , TopBraid, or Stardog Studio.
- Understanding of AI context delivery, vector databases, hybrid RAG, and metadata-driven prompt context.
Work Details
- Start date: 07-13-2026.
- End date: 12-31-2026
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