Senior Data Consultant (Data Modelling & Insurance Domain)
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Position type: Onsite role (need NJ, PA based candidates who can join immediately)
Tax type: W2 contract
Candidate should be available to start by next week.
Job Description:
This is a senior practitioner role responsible for designing and building Ontology.
The role bridges the gap between insurance finance business knowledge and formal ontology engineering, translating KPIs, into a machine-interpretable semantic model using OWL 2 / RDF standards.
Insurance Domain Expertise (Must-Have)
• 10 years of overll experience of which 5+ years working in insurance or reinsurance domains
• Data Modelling & Ontology Engineering (Must-Have)
• Demonstrated experience designing conceptual, logical, and physical data models in financial services contexts
• Practical experience with ontology authoring tools (Protégé, WebProtégé, Metaphactory, or TopBraid) and semantic standards
• Experience building or contributing to enterprise semantic data models, knowledge graphs, or FIBO/ACCORD aligned ontologies
• Ability to translate business glossary terms, KPI definitions, and reporting hierarchies into formal ontology constructs (classes, properties, restrictions, named individuals)
• Understanding of SPARQL for querying and validating graph data
Data Governance & Lineage (Preferred)
• Experience with end-to-end data lineage documentation from source system to BI report
• Familiarity with Microsoft Purview, Fabric catalog, or equivalent data governance tooling
• Understanding of Critical Data Elements (CDEs), data quality rule libraries, and stewardship operating models