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AlphaSense

Product Manager II, Financial Data

Own and evolve AlphaSense's proprietary financial data taxonomy, inclusive of financial metrics reported across sectors, accounting standards, statements, and reporting patterns, ensuring both ...

AlphaSense

Product Manager II, Financial Data

Own and evolve AlphaSense's proprietary financial data taxonomy, inclusive of financial metrics reported across sectors, accounting standards, statements, and reporting patterns, ensuring both ...

CACI

Data Scientist - JIATF

Alexandria, VA · On-site

$94K - $198K/yr

Develop and implement most effective data taxonomy within and between authoritative data sources. Analyze existing and emerging data trends for user stakeholders. Provide data modeling services to ...

Dell GmbH

Senior Advisor, Data Science

Hopkinton, MA · On-site

$140 - $200/hr

Senior Advisor, Data Science Data Science Senior Advisor (Taxonomy, Ontology, and Governance) Data Science is all about breaking new ground to enable businesses to answer their most urgent questions.

Dell GmbH

Senior Advisor, Data Science

Round Rock, TX · On-site

$140 - $190/hr

Senior Advisor, Data Science Data Science Senior Advisor (Taxonomy, Ontology, and Governance) Data Science is all about breaking new ground to enable businesses to answer their most urgent questions.

Dell, Inc.

Senior Advisor, Data Science

Hopkinton, MA · On-site

$150K - $150K/yr

Senior Advisor, Data Science Data Science Senior Advisor (Taxonomy, Ontology, and Governance) Data Science is all about breaking new ground to enable businesses to answer their most urgent questions.

Dell, Inc.

Senior Advisor, Data Science

Hopkinton, MA · On-site

$150K - $150K/yr

Senior Advisor, Data Science Data Science Senior Advisor (Taxonomy, Ontology, and Governance) Data Science is all about breaking new ground to enable businesses to answer their most urgent questions.

Data Intelligence LLC

Senior Data Architect

Mclean, VA · On-site

$68 - $91/hr

Qualifications: * 10+ years of experience in data architecture, semantic modeling, ontology/taxonomy design, and data governance. * Demonstrated ability to work independently, mentor others, and ...

Exactech

$57.75 - $74.25/hr

This specific role focuses on data decomposition, building conceptual models, developing an enterprise clinical data taxonomy, and developing a logical clinical data model at the enterprise level.

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What is a data taxonomist?

A Data Taxonomist is responsible for organizing, classifying, and structuring data to enhance searchability, consistency, and usability. They develop taxonomies, metadata schemas, and classification systems to ensure data is categorized logically across an organization. This role often involves working with data governance teams, data scientists, and content managers to improve data quality and retrieval. Data Taxonomists play a key role in ensuring that information is accessible, well-structured, and aligned with business needs.

What does a data taxonomist do?

Data Taxonomists often spend their days analyzing large datasets, designing and maintaining taxonomies and controlled vocabularies, and collaborating with data engineers and subject matter experts to ensure proper classification and tagging of information. They may be responsible for auditing existing taxonomies, mapping data across disparate systems, and implementing metadata standards to improve searchability and usability. The role frequently involves meetings with business stakeholders to understand data needs and translating those requirements into actionable taxonomy structures. Due to this bridge function between technical and business teams, Data Taxonomists play a key part in enhancing data governance and the overall discoverability of information within an organization.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a data taxonomist?

A successful Data Taxonomist possesses strong analytical skills, domain knowledge in information science, and experience with data modeling and taxonomy development, often supported by a degree in library science, information management, or a related field. Familiarity with metadata standards, ontologies, taxonomy management tools (such as PoolParty or TopBraid), and sometimes certifications like DAMA or relevant data governance coursework is valuable. Excellent attention to detail, problem-solving abilities, and strong collaboration and communication skills help Data Taxonomists work effectively with cross-functional teams. These skills are crucial for ensuring that data assets are accurately classified, easily searchable, and consistently organized across complex digital environments.

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Data Architect / Data Modeler (SAP)

First Genesis

Houston, TX • On-site

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Re-posted 26 days ago

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Company Description
Job Description
Job Title: IT - Application - Data Modeler Level IV
Location: Houston, TX
Job Description:
Title: Data Architect/Data Modeler
Need: We have an immediate opening for a Data Design Lead on the Data and Analytics team. The team works closely with the business to proactively develop solutions, deliver training, and understand the current and future technologies needed to understand data.
Work environment: The work environment is fast paced and dynamic. Individuals will be handling multiple activities in a team as well as individual contributor environment.
Primary functions: data architecture, data development and design, data quality management, reference and master data management, data integration, data governance
Primary Deliverables: Data architecture, data workflow logical models, physical source data models, data profiling reports and data audits, data definitions, data taxonomy, data metrics, meta-data, data lineage, data cleansing services
Activities: data modeling, data audit, detailed data design, define rules, establish master data solutions, define hierarchies and affiliations, distribute reference and master data, profile/analyze/assess data quality, design data quality management procedures, clean and correct data quality defects, establish data governance
Requirements:
  • Demonstrate critical thinking, analytical skills, and employ judgment to offer thoughtful, concise input toward resolutions of problems.
  • Be able to translate data requirements into business processes and reverse engineer business processes into data requirements Comprehension of DevOps and Agile development and application to data centric architecture and solutions
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills with strong English proficiency
  • Leadership skills needed to successfully promote ideas, coordinate work activities, and plan deliverables within a project team.
  • Minimum Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Technology, Computer Science, or closely related field.
  • A minimum of 5 years' experience in SAP Data Management and Governance, SAP Data Services (Data Extract, Data Profiling, de-duplication)
  • Advanced competency in TOAD for Oracle, SQL Server Database, SAP HANA, R Programming and Tableau

Technical Competencies:
  • Advanced expert database handling languages (SQL and variants)
  • Expert in data modeling (physical and logical), ER diagrams, data dictionary, data map, normalize/denormalize, agile data modeling
  • Expert in data manipulation tools such as: SSMS, SSIS, TOAD, Access, Excel, Info Steward, Data Services
  • Practical skill sets in BI and Data visualization tools
  • Knowledge of other programming languages and ability to write code (i.e. VBA, python, XML)
  • Working knowledge of ETL
  • Working knowledge of SAP
  • Basic Project Management and Business Process modeling

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