Enterprise Ontology Architect - Data Governance & Foundry

Guidehouse; Virginia (MN); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k) Plan

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Referral Program

Mobility Stipend

Job summary

Guidehouse seeks an experienced Enterprise Ontology Architect to design and govern enterprise information architecture within Palantir Foundry. You will steward ontology objects, metadata standards, and access models across multiple projects, ensuring secure, reusable, and scalable data structures.

You will collaborate with engineering and governance teams to align enterprise patterns with business needs. Required: 6+ years in data modeling and information architecture, 3+ years in ontology or

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant professional experience including 3+ years in enterprise data modeling, information architecture, metadata management, ontology management or data governance

Responsibilities

• Design, govern, and evolve the enterprise information architecture within Palantir Foundry
• Define and govern enterprise metadata standards across applications, domains and portfolios
• Manage lifecycle of enterprise ontology objects: creation, promotion, versioning and deprecation
• Monitor ontology usage and identify opportunities to improve reuse and reduce duplication
• Partner with application teams to ensure ontology objects align with enterprise standards
• Design and maintain APIs and integration patterns for shared ontology objects and API gateway principals
• Develop governance processes for ontology promotion, ownership, and change management
• Support data access, permission, and group management with appropriate access models
• Ensure ontology objects and metadata are cataloged and aligned with Enterprise Metadata Schema and Data Asset Inventory
• Advise clients on enterprise information architecture, ontology design, metadata management, and governance
• Develop trusted relationships with client stakeholders and support business development activities
• Assist with proposals, white papers, demonstrations, and capability briefings

Skills

Enterprise data modeling

Information architecture

Metadata management

Ontology management

Data governance

Palantir Foundry

API design

Relational databases

Security clearance

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Job description

Guidehouse seeks an experienced Enterprise Ontology Architect to design and govern enterprise information architecture within Palantir Foundry. You will steward ontology objects, metadata standards, and access models across multiple projects, ensuring secure, reusable, and scalable data structures.

You will collaborate with engineering and governance teams to align enterprise patterns with business needs. Required: 6+ years in data modeling and information architecture, 3+ years in ontology or