Remote AI-Ready Context Architect & Ontologist

KeyCorp; Cleveland (OH); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 181,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

In-office with flexible options

Job summary

KeyCorp seeks an AI-Ready Context Engineer/ Ontologist to design and maintain enterprise data domain models, taxonomies, and ontologies for semantic consistency and AI-enabled use across BI, ML, and LLM tasks.

You will operationalize data models via the Enterprise Data Catalog (Alation), enforce standards, resolve conflicts, and partner with analytics, data science, and technology teams to drive governance and measurable value.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with data, metadata, and reference data frameworks.
• Proven ability to establish metadata governance, policies, roles, and controls.
• Hands-on experience with Enterprise Data Catalogs (Alation or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and maintenance of enterprise data domain models, taxonomy, and ontologies for semantic consistency.
• Design and evolve information and semantic models to make enterprise data AI-ready for analytics and LLM use cases.
• Operationalize models through the Enterprise Data Catalog (Alation).
• Define standards for data modeling, taxonomy, nomenclature, and semantic structures.
• Provide guidance on semantic conflicts and harmonize cross-domain terms.
• Contribute to the enterprise data product framework enabling cross-domain AI consumption.
• Document prioritized metadata elements for key processes and AI-enabled workflows.
• Identify simplification opportunities to reduce redundancy and improve trust.
• Partner with analytics, data science, and AI teams to ensure governed AI outcomes.
• Shaped governance strategy and roadmaps as a thought partner.

Skills

Data governance

Metadata management

Data quality

Domain models

Ontologies

Glossaries

Semantic modeling

Communication skills

Governance storytelling

Tools

Knowledge Graphs

Neo4j

Stardog

Amazon Neptune

Azure Cosmos DB (Graph)

OWL / RDF / SKOS

Protégé

TopBraid

Alation

Collibra

Microsoft Purview

DataHub

Ontology tools

Pinecone

Weaviate

Azure AI Search

Job description

KeyCorp seeks an AI-Ready Context Engineer/ Ontologist to design and maintain enterprise data domain models, taxonomies, and ontologies for semantic consistency and AI-enabled use across BI, ML, and LLM tasks.

You will operationalize data models via the Enterprise Data Catalog (Alation), enforce standards, resolve conflicts, and partner with analytics, data science, and technology teams to drive governance and measurable value.