Knowledge Graph Architect & Taxonomy Strategist

BLR Holdings, Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 67,158 - 74,046; Full time

Job summary

BLR Holdings, Inc. seeks a Contract Strategist to design, scale, and govern an enterprise data fabric. You will architect knowledge management schemas, bridging unstructured content with data pipelines and AI/ML applications, owning end-to-end taxonomy and ontology work.

The role emphasizes governance, metadata standards, and scalable knowledge graphs to power enterprise search, discovery, and analytics across business units.

Qualifications

• 5–7+ years in taxonomy design, ontology engineering, knowledge management, or information architecture.
• Demonstrated experience designing and governing enterprise-scale taxonomies and controlled vocabularies.
• Proficiency with Semantic Web standards: RDF/RDFS, OWL, SKOS, SPARQL, SHACL.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain enterprise taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, and hierarchical classification systems across content and data domains.
• Develop and enforce metadata schemas and tagging guidelines for consistent classification.
• Train stakeholders in taxonomy application and metadata best practices.
• Design and implement ontologies using Semantic Web standards to model domain knowledge.
• Create, validate, and govern ontology change requests; own ontology tooling requirements.

Skills

Taxonomy design

Ontology engineering

Knowledge management

Information architecture

Governance

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in Library & Information Science

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

PoolParty

Protégé

TopBraid Composer

Palantir Foundry

RDF/RDFS/OWL/SKOS

Job description

BLR Holdings, Inc. seeks a Contract Strategist to design, scale, and govern an enterprise data fabric. You will architect knowledge management schemas, bridging unstructured content with data pipelines and AI/ML applications, owning end-to-end taxonomy and ontology work.

The role emphasizes governance, metadata standards, and scalable knowledge graphs to power enterprise search, discovery, and analytics across business units.