Ontologist

Ontologist

We are Kaiasm, and we are looking for ontologists.

**Kai-what?**

Kaiasm. Pronounced Kai (as in kayak or kaizen), -asm (as in enthusi-asm). It's a convenient misspelling of the Greek word Chiasm, a reversal of word order to get at a memorable deeper meaning. For example, 'ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country'. Or ‘no-one cares how much you know until they know how much you care”. Or “stop making people want things, start making things people want”.

We are a team of around 30 people. We are not in London. We have a lovely office in the countryside near Frome.

**What do we mean by an Ontologist?**

**Main Duties & Responsibilities**
- Develop logical, semantically rich, and extensible conceptual, data models for our clients across infrastructure, health, retail and manufacturing.
- Ensure our ontologies provide comprehensive domain coverage that are available for both human and machine ingestion and inference.
- Work within cross-functional projects with a broad range of merchandisers, engineers, designers, and other groups that may include architecting new data solutions
- Ad hoc troubleshooting and problem solving as required
- Adhering to information security policies, ensuring strict control of client information and data such that it is used as required but no further
- Performing other reasonable duties as may be required by management from time-to-time

**Extended duties dependent on skills and experience**
- Develop and refine data quality, governance and processes
- Assess and introduce new tools or methodologies

**Required Attributes**
- Experience in the creation and use of ontologies
- The desire and ability to rapidly learn and make use of new technologies
- Able to handle multiple tasks across multiple projects at the same time
- Able to manage moving deadlines and maintain a flexible mindset despite conflicting pressures from multiple stakeholders
- Can-do attitude, and able to get the job done to meet deadlines

**Desirable but non-essential Attributes**
- Background in formal logic and/or metaphysics (a graduate in maths and philosophy, for example)
- Experience using knowledge modelling languages such as SKOS, OWL, UML, BPML, RDF.
- Experience of top level ontologies such as BFO, FIBO, Dolce.
- Experience of using or deploying graph databases and triple stores.
- Experience of conceptual and logical data modelling. You have well formed opinions on normalisation, on stars and snowflakes.
- Experience of a variety of ontology and taxonomy management and authoring tools.

**You**
- Want to do better work that makes a positive difference to the world
- Want to work with an exciting and growing firm; and recognise that comes with opportunities and challenges
- Have the confidence to say you don't know, when you don't
- Are open to new ideas, to new people and to a relaxed but focused way of working
- Are very happy to chip in to help the team in whatever way makes sense - whether that is taking your turn on the coffee rota making drinks for the whole team at 11am, running cables, or joining a working party to fill potholes in the drive. All work has equal dignity

**Job Type**: Permanent

**Salary**: £13.06-£35.12 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- Flexitime
- On-site parking
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

COVID-19 considerations:
When working in the office Covid Safe Precautions are in place.

Application question(s):

- Are you able to work from our office in Whatley, Somerset on at least one day per week?