Senior Semantic Modelling & Governance Specialist

Argus Media; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and company bonus

Group pension scheme

Group healthcare and life assurance

Hybrid working environment (currently

25 days annual holiday with increments

Subsidised gym membership

Season ticket travel loan

Cycle to work scheme

Flexible benefits platform

Extensive internal and external培训

Job summary

Argus Media is seeking a Senior Semantic Modelling & Governance Specialist to lead the definition, governance and stewardship of semantic assets across the organisation.

You will design ontologies, taxonomies and glossaries; collaborate with SMEs and product teams; and ensure consistent, reusable semantic data aligned with business goals.

Qualifications

• Experience developing and managing ontologies, taxonomies, thesauri or glossaries.
• Strong understanding of semantic technologies and standards (OWL, RDF, SKOS, SHACL).
• Experience operating governance, stewardship or metadata management processes.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, facilitation and requirements gathering skills.
• Experience conducting workshops with business SMEs.
• Strong analytical, communication and documentation capabilities.
• Experience managing semantic assets through their lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders and SMEs to capture semantic requirements.
• Facilitate workshops to identify modelling opportunities and relationships.
• Analyse processes, metadata and datasets for semantic alignment and reuse.
• Define semantic requirements and evaluate candidate concepts for governance.
• Design and maintain ontologies, taxonomies, glossaries and controlled vocabularies.
• Ensure consistent terminology and promote semantic asset reuse across domains.
• Operate governance processes and approval workflows.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Facilitation

Requirements gathering

Analytical thinking

Documentation

Communication

Tools

OWL

RDF

SKOS

SHACL

Graphologi

PoolParty

Job description

What We’re Looking For

The Senior Semantic Modelling & Governance Specialist is responsible for the definition, governance and stewardship of Argus semantic assets, including ontologies, taxonomies, thesauri, glossaries, controlled vocabularies and semantic reference data. Working closely with business stakeholders, subject matter experts and product teams, the role ensures that business concepts are consistently defined, governed and maintained across the organisation.

What We’re Looking For

The Senior Semantic Modelling & Governance Specialist is responsible for the definition, governance and stewardship of Argus semantic assets, including ontologies, taxonomies, thesauri, glossaries, controlled vocabularies and semantic reference data. Working closely with business stakeholders, subject matter experts and product teams, the role ensures that business concepts are consistently defined, governed and maintained across the organisation.

The role acts as the primary bridge between business meaning and enterprise semantic governance, ensuring semantic assets remain authoritative, reusable and aligned with business objectives.

What Will You Be Doing

Semantic Analysis & Requirements

• Partner with stakeholders and SMEs to capture business concepts, terminology and semantic requirements.
• Facilitate workshops to identify modelling opportunities, classifications and relationships.
• Analyse business processes, metadata and datasets to support semantic alignment, standardisation and reuse.
• Define semantic requirements and evaluate candidate concepts for governance and modelling.

Ontology, Taxonomy & Vocabulary Development

• Design and maintain ontologies, taxonomies, thesauri, glossaries and controlled vocabularies.
• Define concepts, relationships, hierarchies and semantic constraints.
• Develop and maintain business glossaries and semantic reference data.
• Ensure consistent use of terminology and promote semantic asset reuse across domains.

Semantic Governance & Stewardship

• Operate semantic governance processes and approval workflows.
• Manage the lifecycle of semantic assets from proposal through retirement.
• Maintain ownership, stewardship and provenance information.
• Conduct quality reviews, impact assessments and change management activities.
• Monitor adoption and compliance with semantic standards.

Standards & Best Practice

• Apply and promote semantic standards including OWL, RDF, SKOS and SHACL.
• Contribute to modelling standards, governance frameworks and best practices.
• Support semantic governance platforms and associated workflows.
• Develop guidance, documentation and training materials.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as the primary liaison between the Ontology Team and business stakeholders.
• Build relationships with data owners, stewards, product teams and SMEs.
• Facilitate agreement on business definitions, classifications and semantic standards.
• Promote the value and adoption of governed semantic assets.

Essential

Skills and Experience

• Experience developing and managing ontologies, taxonomies, thesauri, controlled vocabularies or business glossaries.
• Strong understanding of semantic technologies and standards, including OWL, RDF, SKOS and SHACL.
• Experience operating governance, stewardship or metadata management processes.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, facilitation and requirements gathering skills.
• Experience conducting workshops and working with business subject matter experts.
• Strong analytical, communication and documentation capabilities.
• Experience managing semantic assets throughout their lifecycle.

Desirable

• Experience with semantic modelling and governance platforms such as Graphologi, PoolParty or similar tools.
• Knowledge graph experience.
• Information architecture, metadata management or master/reference data management experience.
• Familiarity with metadata and vocabulary standards.
• Experience operating within enterprise data governance or architecture environments.

What’s In It For You

Our rapidly growing, award-winning business offers a dynamic environment for talented, entrepreneurial professionals to achieve results and grow their careers. Argus recognizes and rewards successful performance and as an Investor in People, we promote professional development and retain a high-performing team committed to building our success.

• Competitive salary and company bonus scheme
• Group pension scheme
• Group healthcare and life assurance scheme
• Hybrid working environment (currently one day in office)
• 25 days annual holiday with incremental increase up to 30 days
• Subsidised gym membership
• Season ticket travel loan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Flexible benefits platform (ability to buy additional medical cover, life assurance, dental cover, holiday, critical illness, travel insurance & health screening)
• Extensive internal and external training

Argus is the leading independent provider of market intelligence to the global energy and commodity markets. We offer essential price assessments, news, analytics, consulting services, data science tools and industry conferences to illuminate complex and opaque commodity markets.

Headquartered in London with 1,500 staff, Argus is an independent media organisation with 32 offices in the world’s principal commodity trading hubs.

Companies, trading firms and governments in 160 countries around the world trust Argus data to make decisions, analyse situations, manage risk, facilitate trading and for long-term planning. Argus prices are used as trusted benchmarks around the world for pricing transportation, commodities and energy.

Founded in 1970, Argus remains a privately held UK-registered company owned by employee shareholders and global growth equity firm General Atlantic.