Business SME Ontology

Bootminds Systems; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Bootminds Systems seeks a Business SME specializing in ontology to define and govern business terms, mappings, and relationships. You will build glossaries, map concepts to data elements, and ensure consistent semantic layers across data domains.

The role emphasizes collaboration with data governance teams, AI/LLM contexts, and knowledge-graph initiatives to enable enterprise semantic clarity.

Qualifications

• 5 to 8 years of relevant experience with deep functional knowledge.
• Ability to define business terms precisely and spot ambiguity between concepts.
• Strong skill in identifying relationships between concepts (parent-child, part-of, depends-on).
• Experience with business glossaries, data dictionaries, taxonomies or data governance work.
• Strong analytical thinking and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, including handling disagreement between stakeholders.
• Strong documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Create business terms and definitions, and a business glossary.
• Develop concept hierarchy and map relationships between terms.
• Define ontology business rules and mappings.
• Map business terms to data elements, systems and reports.

Skills

years of experience

define business terms

identify relationships

data governance

analytical thinking

communication & facilitation

documentation

Tools

Protg

Collibra

Alation

Purview

Job description

Required Skills & Experience

• 5 to 8 years of relevant experience , with deep functional knowledge
• Ability to define business terms precisely and spot ambiguity or overlap between concepts
• Strong skill in identifying relationships between concepts (parent-child, part-of, depends-on, etc.)
• Experience with business glossaries, data dictionaries, taxonomies or data governance work
• Strong analytical thinking and attention to detail
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, including handling disagreement between stakeholders
• Strong documentation skills

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with ontology and semantic concepts (taxonomy vs. ontology, classes, properties, RDF/OWL)

and tools such as Protg

• Exposure to knowledge graphs, data catalogs or metadata management tools (Collibra, Alation, Purview,

etc.)

• Understanding of data modelling basics (entities, attributes, relationships)

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• Exposure to AI/LLM use cases that rely on business context or semantic layers
• Experience working with data governance or data stewardship teams

Key Deliverables

• Business terms and definitions, and a business glossary
• Concept hierarchy and the relationships between terms
• Ontology business rules and mappings
• Mapping of business terms to data elements, systems and reports