Manager, Ontology and Data Modeling- Retail Bank

Capital One - West McLean, VA

Full-time - Manager

West McLean, VA

5,001-10,000 employees

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

The Manager of Ontology and Data Modeling at Capital One is responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise ontologies to support the company's Data Strategy within the Retail Bank Product team. This role involves collaborating across various lines of business to create domain ontologies that align with enterprise initiatives, integrating semantic technology into Capital One's products and services, and advocating for the value of semantic technology and knowledge organization concepts.

Responsibilities

• Define clear and actionable problem statements to help teams deliver results while displaying a comprehensive understanding of ontologies and optimized data models.
• Leverage customer insights to influence priorities and roadmap development while advocating for and driving alignment between stakeholders in the development of acceptance criteria.
• Own and prioritize the near-term Ontology and Data Modeling roadmap to deliver on business outcomes, quickly identifying points of leverage in complex problems or systems, and utilizing data effectively to define success metrics and measurable outcomes.
• Utilize balanced judgment in decisions about risks of both actions taken and not taken while innovating on ways to iterate faster in a well-managed way for the immediate team.
• Understand and leverage technology and end-state architecture vision in partnership with Technology, Machine Learning, and other Capital One teams to support the development and integration of semantics in Capital One products and services, driving comprehensive design decisions out of white space technical problems.
• Deliver value by creating reusable, extensible and resilient capabilities and proactively identify opportunities when key metrics are not performing.
• Develop and communicate a 6-month vision to senior stakeholders and partner teams with accurate details and transparency on risks and impediments, and proactively build relationships with those outside of your immediate team resulting in horizontal influence.
• Contribute to team culture and recruiting by leading activities to attract and retain top talent and mentoring and developing junior ontology and data modeling associates.
• Manage teams that develop, implement and govern ontologies and optimized data models in consultation with stakeholders.
• Contribute to data integration and mapping efforts to harmonize data with Capital One's upper and domain ontologies.
• Communicate and advocate the value of Capital One's efforts in ontologies, semantics, and standardization across the business.
• Maintain awareness of competitor and industry developments related to ontology use, knowledge organization, data modeling, and machine learning.
• Understand and adhere to W3C standards related to ontologies, in particular RDF, RDFS, OWL, SKOS, and SHACL.
• Develop standards, guidelines, and direction for ontology, data modeling, semantics and Data Standardization in general at Capital One.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in information science, computer science, engineering, library science, ontology, semantics or computational linguistics.
• At least 4 years' experience in a metadata field of work (ontology, taxonomy, semantics or computational linguistics).
• At least 4 years' experience or training in using W3C standards including linked and canonical data and ontologies (JSON, XML, RDF, RDFS, OWL, and SKOS).
• At least 4 years' experience or training in ontology and linked data tools (Protege, TopQuadrant, PoolParty, Stardog, AnzoGraph, Neptune, or Data.World).
• At least 4 years' experience or training with SQL or SPARQL.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's degree or PhD in information science, computer science, engineering, library science, ontology, semantics or computational linguistics.
• Understanding of the development of ontologies and the use of controlled vocabularies and thesauri in enhancing the discovery of management of enterprise data.
• Familiarity with graph databases and technologies.
• Familiarity with Python or R.
• Familiarity with JSON, OpenAPI/YAML, AVRO.
• Familiarity with Agile principles, processes, and methodologies.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance coverage
• Financial benefits including 401k and performance bonuses
• Flexible scheduling options
• Paid time off and holidays
• Professional development opportunities
• Diversity and inclusion programs