AI-Ready Context Architect & Ontology Lead

KeyBank; Brooklyn (OH); On-site; USD 96,000 - 181,000; Full time

Job summary

KeyBank seeks an AI-Ready Context Engineer/Ontologist to design and maintain enterprise data models, taxonomies, and ontologies that support governance, trusted analytics, and AI-enabled workflows. You will partner with business and technology teams to ensure scalable, governed information structures for BI, AI/ML, and LLM use cases.

The role focuses on enabling AI-ready data, establishing semantic contracts, and guiding data catalog adoption to deliver measurable value across analytics

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience working with data, metadata, and reference data frameworks, including metadata management and data quality monitoring.
• Experience leading enterprise glossaries, domain models, and ontologies to enable semantic consistency and AI-ready data usage.
• Proven ability to establish and operationalize metadata governance functions, including policies, standards, roles, and controls.
• Hands-on experience implementing and scaling an Enterprise Data Catalog (Alation or equivalent) with curation workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and maintenance of the enterprise data domain model, taxonomy, and ontologies for semantic consistency and discoverability.
• Design and evolve information and semantic models to make enterprise data AI-ready for analytics, BI, and AI/ML use cases.
• Operationalize data models and taxonomies through the Enterprise Data Catalog (Alation).
• Define standards for data modeling, taxonomy, nomenclature, and semantic structures.
• Harmonize terms and resolve semantic conflicts across domains to enable trusted data.
• Contribute to the data product framework with domain boundaries and semantic contracts for cross-domain AI consumption.
• Document prioritized metadata elements for key processes and AI-enabled workflows, aligning with governance and risk.

Skills

Data governance

Metadata management

Ontology design

Semantic modeling

Communication

Stakeholder collaboration

Strategic thinking

Tools

Alation

Collibra

Purview

DataHub

Protege

TopBraid

Stardog Studio

Neo4j

Job description

KeyBank seeks an AI-Ready Context Engineer/Ontologist to design and maintain enterprise data models, taxonomies, and ontologies that support governance, trusted analytics, and AI-enabled workflows. You will partner with business and technology teams to ensure scalable, governed information structures for BI, AI/ML, and LLM use cases.

The role focuses on enabling AI-ready data, establishing semantic contracts, and guiding data catalog adoption to deliver measurable value across analytics