Semantic Data Architect - RDF/SparQL

Role & Responsibilities :

- Design and build ontologies (knowledge models) that organize Dell's business information in a structured way.

- Connect data from different systems so that all information is consistent and easy to understand.

- Create relationships between products, customers, services, and other business data to improve search and AI capabilities.

- Work closely with business teams to understand their requirements and convert them into structured knowledge models.

- Ensure data is organized according to industry standards such as RDF, OWL, and SPARQL.

- Improve enterprise search, analytics, and AI-driven applications by maintaining accurate knowledge structures.

- Collaborate with developers, data engineers, AI teams, and business stakeholders on knowledge management projects.

- Manage and update ontologies as new products, services, and business information are introduced.

- Support knowledge graph and metadata initiatives to improve data quality and consistency.

- Use graph databases and ontology management tools (where applicable) to maintain semantic data models.

Ideal Candidate:

- Strong Ontologist Profile with deep semantic (RDF) ontology experience in complex enterprise environments.

- Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 7+ years of total experience, with 5+ years in semantic (RDF) ontology building/structuring for a complex/large enterprises.

- Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have a strong understanding of content and information management, data structures, and semantic metadata extraction.

- Mandatory (Tech skill 1): Must have strong experience with graph databases, taxonomies, and NLP strategies for optimization.

- Mandatory (Tech skill 2): Must have strong working experience of ontology/TOMS tools such as PoolParty (Semantic Web), TopQuadrant EDG, or GraphDB (Ontotext).

- Mandatory (Tech skill 3): Must be familiar with W3C industry standards, including SPARQL and OWL.

- Mandatory (Communication): Must be fluent in English, with strong stakeholder management skills to operate across a complex, multi-team environment.

- Mandatory (Note): Must be available to work during US time zones for at least 4 hours per day.

- Preferred (Education): Must have a degree in Computer Science or Library Science, preferably with a minor / concentration / certificate in Information Management or Library Automation.

- Preferred (Tech skill 3): Understanding of content development and search/retrieval tools.

(ref:hirist.tech)