Vice President – Ontologist – Data Scientist Lead

Job title:

Vice President – Ontologist – Data Scientist Lead

Company

JPMorgan Chase

Job description

Job Description:The Firmwide Chief Data Office is responsible for maximizing the value and impact of data globally, in a highly governed way. It consists of several teams focused on accelerating JPMorgan Chase’s data, analytics, and AI journey, including data strategy, data impact optimization, privacy, data governance, transformation, and talent. We are looking for a team member to help support the strategy for how we make data available to power everything from new product development to Artificial Intelligence models. This team member will join the team responsible for supporting the Firmwide data publishing strategy and driving the adoption of the strategy across the firm.As a Vice President – Ontology, you will have the opportunity to work on the JP Morgan Chase team shaping our knowledge representation and data publishing standards. Your role will involve utilizing ontologies and taxonomies to enhance data interoperability and management, preparing our data for AI applications. Your responsibilities will range from engaging with and educating domain experts to assessing data standards and developing our organization-wide ontology. We are looking for someone with an understanding semantic technologies, ontologies, or a related technical field.Job Responsibilities:

• Participate in the development and adoption of ontologies to represent data standards in complex domains.
• Evaluate industry standard ontologies for adoption across JPMC.
• Work closely with stakeholders, subject matter experts, product owners, and engineers to understand use cases, requirements and dependencies, critically assessing proposed solutions.
• Communicate complex ideas effectively to collaborators using precise terminology and relatable examples and ask clarifying questions to define core meanings.
• Communicate the concepts and accepted practices, standards and objective of ontologies to stakeholders.
• Keep abreast of emerging trends and advancements in data standards, ontology engineering, knowledge representation, and semantic technologies.
• Balance timeliness with quality under tight deadlines, managing multiple priorities and partners.
• Ensure end-to-end relevance to stakeholder needs from gathering competency questions to achieving successful integrations.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Significant experience developing and managing ontologies for real-world applications.
• Experience with Semantic Web technologies (RDF/S, OWL, SKOS), query languages (SPARQL), and validation standards (SHACL).
• Experience with ontology and taxonomy development process and tools (e.g., Protégé, TopBraid, PoolParty, etc.).
• Experience with large-scale knowledge graph development, including schema design, entity modeling, and relationship mapping to support various business domains.
• Structured thinker and effective communicator with excellent written communication skills. Ability to crisply articulate technical concepts to senior audiences with poise and confidence.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in a field focused on ontology engineering, knowledge representation, or semantic technologies, such as Information Science, Library Science, Linguistics, or Computer Science.
• Knowledge and understanding of a broad set of JPMC products and processes is a value add.
• Demonstrated interest in emerging technology and data engineering trends in the financial services industry.
• Experience with data standards and ontologies for Data and Financial services.
• Contributions to Ontology community, such as papers, conference presentations, industry standard contributions, or open source contributions.

About Us: J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our for more information about requesting an accommodation.About the Team: Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

Expected salary

Location

London

Job date

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 05:48:47 GMT

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