Remote Senior Data Scientist - Metadata & Ontologies

Innovative Computer Solutions Group, Inc; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Job summary

Innovative Computer Solutions Group, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to design and implement enterprise tagging and metadata governance across distributed data environments.

You will translate business requirements into metadata schemas, tagging capabilities, and semantic models while collaborating with data, security, and governance teams. The role emphasizes evolution of ontologies, taxonomies, and knowledge graphs, with a focus on secure data movement and DoD/IC-aligned practices.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of enterprise data tagging and metadata management principles.
• Experience defining minimum metadata and tagging requirements across enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of AI/ML-assisted tagging approaches and metadata extraction.
• Experience with metadata schema development, mapping, and standards implementation.
• Familiarity with RDF, OWL, SKOS, JSON-LD and related semantic technologies.
• Experience enabling tagging services within data lakes, catalogs, and pipelines.
• Experience with data governance, lineage, and security metadata.

Responsibilities

• Translate mission requirements into technical metadata and tagging capabilities.
• Define metadata requirements and develop semantic models.
• Evaluate tagging approaches including AI/ML-assisted methods.
• Integrate enterprise tagging with data lakes, catalogs, and pipelines.
• Govern ontologies, taxonomies, and controlled vocabularies across domains.
• Ensure metadata persists across security boundaries and data movements.

Skills

Data tagging

Metadata management

Ontologies

Taxonomies

Semantic data

Data governance

ABAC

Policy enforcement

Metadata schemas

Knowledge graphs

APIs integration

Data catalogs

Tools

RDF/OWL/JSON-LD

SQL/ETL

Job description

Innovative Computer Solutions Group, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to design and implement enterprise tagging and metadata governance across distributed data environments.

You will translate business requirements into metadata schemas, tagging capabilities, and semantic models while collaborating with data, security, and governance teams. The role emphasizes evolution of ontologies, taxonomies, and knowledge graphs, with a focus on secure data movement and DoD/IC-aligned practices.