Dominic Workforce Solutions

Remote Ontology Business Consultant (Ontologist / Knowledge Graph Consultant)

Contract: 6 Months
Pay Rate: $60 per hour

We are seeking an experienced Ontology Business Consultant to support the design and implementation of enterprise semantic data models and knowledge graphs for a large-scale data initiative. This is a 6-month contract opportunity paying $60 per hour, working closely with business stakeholders, data architects, and engineering teams to translate complex business concepts into structured ontologies that power intelligent data systems.

Tech Stack: RDF, OWL, SHACL, SPARQL, Protégé, Stardog / GraphDB / Blazegraph / Neptune, SKOS taxonomies

Why This Role Matters

This project supports a major enterprise data modernization initiative focused on building a knowledge graph that connects previously siloed data across multiple business domains.

The ontology developed in this role will power advanced search, intelligent data integration, and AI-driven insights, helping the organization unlock the full value of its data ecosystem.

What You’ll Be Doing Day-to-Day

• Designing domain ontologies that define entities, relationships, and business concepts.
• Translating business requirements into semantic data models and RDF/OWL ontologies.
• Collaborating with data engineers to map structured and unstructured data into a knowledge graph architecture.
• Writing SPARQL queries to test, validate, and analyze semantic data models.
• Using Protégé and SHACL to design ontologies and define constraints.
• Developing and managing taxonomies and controlled vocabularies using SKOS.
• Supporting knowledge graph implementation within platforms such as Stardog, GraphDB, Blazegraph, or AWS Neptune.
• Documenting semantic models and establishing best practices for ontology governance and reuse.
• Working with business stakeholders to ensure semantic models accurately represent domain knowledge.

Required Qualifications

• Experience designing enterprise ontologies and semantic data models.
• Strong understanding of RDF, OWL, and SPARQL.
• Experience working with knowledge graph databases (Stardog, GraphDB, Blazegraph, Neptune, or similar).
• Experience with ontology modeling tools such as Protégé.
• Familiarity with taxonomy development and semantic standards such as SKOS and SHACL.
• Ability to translate business requirements into semantic data models.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing enterprise knowledge graph architectures.
• Background in data architecture, semantic integration, or metadata management.
• Experience supporting AI/ML or advanced analytics initiatives using semantic data models.
• Previous consulting or stakeholder-facing experience.

Please email your resume to [email protected]