Semantic Engineer / Ontology & Taxonomy Specialist – Global Investment Fund
* Competitive daily rate within a top‑tier investment fund
* Strategic greenfield knowledge‑graph program
* Flexible working environment + long‑term career growth
Company Overview
Our client is a major global investment fund with a multi‑billion‑dollar portfolio and a strong reputation for innovation in data, analytics, and technology. With a collaborative culture and a long‑term investment horizon, the organisation is building modern semantic capabilities to enhance research, decision‑making, and enterprise data connectivity.
Role Overview
Reporting into the Head of Data Engineering, this role will design and develop the fund’s semantic data layer, working closely with data engineering, investment teams, and enterprise technology stakeholders. You will shape ontologies, taxonomies, and knowledge graph structures that underpin critical investment and operational insights.
Core Responsibilities:
* Develop and maintain ontologies, taxonomies, and controlled vocabularies
* Build and evolve enterprise knowledge graphs using PoolParty and GraphDB
* Model complex investment, ESG, risk, and operational domains
* Implement semantic standards across metadata, RDF/OWL, SKOS, and SPARQL
* Partner with data engineers to integrate semantic models with structured and unstructured data
* Support semantic search, entity linking, and reasoning use cases
* Contribute to governance frameworks and semantic data quality processes
Skills & Experience
* Strong experience with knowledge graph technologies
* Hands‑on capability with PoolParty and GraphDB
* Expertise in ontology engineering, taxonomy design, and semantic modelling
* Proficiency in RDF, OWL, SKOS, SPARQL and W3C semantic standards
* Ability to translate domain knowledge into structured semantic models
* Strong communication skills for working with technical and non‑technical stakeholders
What’s on Offer
People enjoy working in this team because they are empowered to innovate, supported by highly capable colleagues, and given the autonomy to build meaningful, long‑term solutions. This is a rare opportunity to influence the semantic architecture of a major financial institution.
Key Benefits:
* Excellent daily rate
* Flexible hybrid working (min 2 days WFH)
* Long‑term career pathways within a high‑performing data organisation
* Work on a strategic, high‑visibility program with genuine impact
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