Ontology Architect for AI Data Platform

Nscale; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary + equity

Flexible paid time off

Parental leave

Retirement plan

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Job summary

Nscale seeks an Ontology Manager to own and evolve the organisational ontology at the heart of Foundry-based workflows. You will shape how data sources are modeled, governed, and accessed across the platform, partnering with data sources teams to drive long-term strategic decisions.

This central role reports to the Nirvana Programme Lead and requires deep data modeling, governance, and cross-functional leadership to align with the roadmap and governance standards.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data architecture, ontology design, data modeling, data engineering, analytics engineering, or related fields.
• Experience overseeing complex cross-functional data initiatives.
• Experience designing conceptual, logical, or semantic data models.
• Hands-on experience with data pipelines and production data workflows.
• Strong knowledge of databases, schemas, metadata, and data quality.
• Experience partnering across engineering, operations, governance, and business teams.
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the development of the ontology from the existing model and production pipelines, ensuring it serves as the consumption point for all workflow projects.
• Manage the ontology backlog, prioritising change requests and triaging them to other teams where required.
• Evaluate requests for new objects and other ontology changes with a clear view of their impact on the broader organisational ontology and its long-term roadmap.
• Partner with Use Case Leads and Data Source Developers on requests for new data sources to be ingested into Foundry.
• Take a central role in new use case architecture and data sourcing discussions to ensure alignment with the existing ontology and programme-wide strategy.
• Own ontology maintenance and develop a deep understanding of relevant data sources for each use case.
• Collaborate with Data Source Developers to understand data sources, plan integration into the ontology, and support use case teams in understanding the impact of ontology design decisions.
• Work with Data Governance and Compliance teams to ensure access to the ontology and data sources is implemented in line with internal governance procedures.
• Develop scalable processes for governance checks in ontology development and maintenance.
• Work closely with the Ontology Lead and Data Lead to ensure alignment between the ontology, data ingestion, and maintenance processes.
• Develop the ontology in alignment with the programme-wide roadmap and long-term strategy.

Skills

Data architecture

Ontology design

Data modeling

Data engineering

Analytics engineering

Enterprise data platforms

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Job description

Nscale seeks an Ontology Manager to own and evolve the organisational ontology at the heart of Foundry-based workflows. You will shape how data sources are modeled, governed, and accessed across the platform, partnering with data sources teams to drive long-term strategic decisions.

This central role reports to the Nirvana Programme Lead and requires deep data modeling, governance, and cross-functional leadership to align with the roadmap and governance standards.