Job Description

We are currently seeking a Senior Ontologist to our client in Malmö.

Senior Ontologist is a key role within the company’s Knowledge Graph ecosystem. Senior ontologists are responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of ontologies that underpin data integration, semantic enrichment, and knowledge management initiatives across the company’s value chain. This role requires a deep understanding of semantic web standards and the ability to work independently, while ensuring consistency and alignment with the broader ontology strategy led by the Ontologist Leader.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ontology Design and Development: Design, implement, and maintain high-quality ontologies and taxonomies to support various domains within the company’s Knowledge Graph, ensuring they meet the organization’s needs and standards.
• Taxonomy Creation: Develop foundational taxonomies that align with their data structures and business requirements for optimal knowledge representation and retrieval.
• Data Analysis: Work with and analyze diverse datasets in formats like JSON, Excel, and more, to extract meaningful insights and guide ontology development. Assess the structure, cleanliness, and relevance of these datasets to enable effective semantic integration within the company’s Knowledge Graph.
• Collaborative Discussions: Participate actively in discussions regarding the adoption and integration of upper, mid-level, and core ontologies, ensuring semantic consistency and alignment across different domains.
• Best Practices Application: Apply best practices in ontology and taxonomy development, including the use of established standards and methodologies.
• Quality Assurance: Engage in ontology and taxonomy review and refinement processes to ensure the quality, accuracy, and relevance of the developed models.
• Tooling Proficiency: Utilize tools such as metaphactory and RDFox for ontology development and ensure the use of Git for version control and collaboration.

Qualifications

• You hold an advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or a related field with a focus on semantic technologies.
• You have minimum of 5 years of experience in ontology design, development, and related semantic technologies.
• You have expertise in RDF(S), OWL, SKOS, SHACL, SPARQL, and other relevant W3C standards.
• You are proficient in Datalog or other inferencing rule languages to support complex logic within the ontologies.
• You are familiar with common serialization formats, such as Turtle (ttl), JSON-LD, etc.
• You have experience with Git processes, including branching, merging, and reviewing ontology-related changes.
• You are proficient in ontology development tools such as metaphactory and RDFox to streamline ontology creation and management. 

Personal Qualities 

We are looking for a highly analytical and detail-oriented professional with strong problem-solving skills. In this role, you will be responsible for analyzing complex issues, evaluating trade-offs, and implementing effective solutions.

Excellent communication skills are essential, as you will need to articulate intricate concepts and collaborate closely with the Ontologist Leader and various stakeholders. You should have a proven ability to drive consensus among diverse teams, ensuring that different perspectives are integrated and aligned with the overall ontology strategy.

A keen eye for detail is crucial to maintaining semantic accuracy and consistency across all ontology-related work. If you thrive in a dynamic environment and are passionate about structuring and refining knowledge systems, we encourage you to apply.

Company Description

Our client is a privately held retail and financial company that owns the intellectual property rights to the franchisees' department stores. Their department stores are located around the world and are well known in every household.

When you join JobBusters

As a consultant at JobBusters, you can feel secure with a collective agreement, available consultant managers and committed recruiters. As a consultant, you also get access to our network of exciting companies and clients! For us, it is important that you as a consultant feel comfortable, feel a sense of security and community with us as an employer. We offer an occupational pension, salary change and the option of flexpension. You also get access to our benefits portal, where in addition to wellness allowance you have access to lots of discounts and offers in wellnes, home and leisure, transport, healthcare and much more! Your well-being is of the highest priority for us, and we therefore offer you as an employee Corporate Health Care to deal with all the challenges of everyday life, both at work and in private life.

Admission and Application

Full time position, 40h/week. The position will start as soon as possible, and the assignment is expected to run until 2025-08-31 with possibility of extension. For this assignment you will be employed by JobBusters and work as a consultant for our client in Malmö. Submit your application in English today, as interviews are ongoing.