Ontologist

A Snapshot of your day

As an Ontologist, you support our federated data governance teams to convert their subject matter expertise into high-quality reusable data for the enterprise, by capturing their competency requirements, documenting business rules, designing domain ontologies, and applying controlled vocabulary to contextualize our master and reference data.

How You’ll Make an Impact

·Collaborate with data governance teams to document their information requirements – including documentation of competency questions and business rules

·Design domain ontologies and collections using the company’s Domain Ontology Editor – ensuring their quality and completeness by verifying their ability to formally answer all competency questions

·Analyze existing knowledge to identify concepts for reuse or refactoring

·Assist data governance teams with documenting their domain-specific entities and attributes in the data catalog, and contextualizing using the ontology-controlled vocabulary

·Develop and maintain core building block ontologies to extend the upper ontology when new requirements arise

What You bring - Your Skills and Capabilities

·Proficient with semantic standards like RDF, RDFS, OWL, SHACL, and SKOS

·Demonstrable knowledge of and working experience with RDF graph database technologies, like Neptune and Stardog

·Capable of programming in JAVA and Python, with proficiency in related libraries for XML, JSON-LD, OWL, RDF, and TTL, as well as ontology APIs like the OWL API

·A solid background in Agile working environments, using tools such as Jira and Confluence

·Prior experience in the energy industry, or have supported a wide variety of businesses that lends itself to learning about our company and industry

·Strong communication and change management skills: able to explain technical concepts to business colleagues in plain language and naturally incorporate change management activities in the rollout of any data governance capability

·Fluent in both written and spoken English

·Growth mindset: flexible to multiple, sometimes competing, demands, shifting priorities, ambiguity, and rapid change 

·You are motivated to contribute to the transformation and decarbonization of energy generation globally.

About the Team

The Digital Core organization was created to streamline the lifecycle of software, data, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence solutions for Siemens Energy.Within Digital Core, our Data Governance team is a center of excellence that enables the organization to discover, access and use harmonized, high quality data in service of the Siemen’s Energy mission. We partner with the business to support them as they build strong foundations using policy, process and technology provided by our team.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our distributed team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• Opportunities to work with a global team and lead a variety of innovative projects

• Medical benefits

• Time off/Paid holidays and parental leave

• Continual learning through the Learn@Siemens-Energy platform

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