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About the Role
The Senior Semantic Analyst is responsible for the definition, governance, and stewardship of Argus semantic assets, including ontologies, taxonomies, thesauri, glossaries, controlled vocabularies, and semantic reference data. This role ensures business concepts are consistently defined, governed, and maintained across the organization, acting as the primary bridge between business meaning and enterprise semantic governance.
Responsibilities
- Partner with stakeholders and SMEs to capture business concepts, terminology, and semantic requirements.
- Facilitate workshops to identify modeling opportunities, classifications, and relationships.
- Analyze business processes, metadata, and datasets to support semantic alignment, standardization, and reuse.
- Define semantic requirements and evaluate candidate concepts for governance and modeling.
- Design and maintain ontologies, taxonomies, thesauri, glossaries, and controlled vocabularies.
- Define concepts, relationships, hierarchies, and semantic constraints.
- Develop and maintain business glossaries and semantic reference data.
- Ensure consistent use of terminology and promote semantic asset reuse across domains.
- Operate semantic governance processes and approval workflows.
- Manage the lifecycle of semantic assets from proposal through retirement.
- Maintain ownership, stewardship, and provenance information.
- Conduct quality reviews, impact assessments, and change management activities.
- Monitor adoption and compliance with semantic standards.
- Apply and promote semantic standards including OWL, RDF, SKOS, and SHACL.
- Contribute to modeling standards, governance frameworks, and best practices.
- Support semantic governance platforms and associated workflows.
- Develop guidance, documentation, and training materials.
- Act as the primary liaison between the Ontology Team and business stakeholders.
- Build relationships with data owners, stewards, product teams, and SMEs.
- Facilitate agreement on business definitions, classifications, and semantic standards.
- Promote the value and adoption of governed semantic assets.
Requirements
- Experience developing and managing ontologies, taxonomies, thesauri, controlled vocabularies, or business glossaries.
- Strong understanding of semantic technologies and standards, including OWL, RDF, SKOS, and SHACL.
- Experience operating governance, stewardship, or metadata management processes.
- Strong stakeholder engagement, facilitation, and requirements gathering skills.
- Experience conducting workshops and working with business subject matter experts.
- Strong analytical, communication, and documentation capabilities.
- Experience managing semantic assets throughout their lifecycle.
- Experience with semantic modeling and governance platforms such as Graphologi, PoolParty, or similar tools.
- Knowledge graph experience.
- Information architecture, metadata management, or master/reference data management experience.
- Familiarity with metadata and vocabulary standards.
- Experience operating within enterprise data governance or architecture environments.
Skills
- Ontologies
- Taxonomies
- Thesauri
- Controlled vocabularies
- Business glossaries
- Semantic reference data
- Semantic technologies
- Semantic standards
- OWL
- RDF
- SKOS
- SHACL
- Governance
- Stewardship
- Metadata management
- Stakeholder engagement
- Facilitation
- Requirements gathering
- Workshops
- Subject matter experts
- Analytical skills
- Communication skills
- Documentation skills
- Lifecycle management
- Semantic modeling
- Graphologi
- PoolParty
- Knowledge graphs
- Information architecture
- Master data management
- Reference data management
- Enterprise data governance
- Enterprise architecture
Location
- Hybrid working environment
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
- Experience developing and managing ontologies, taxonomies, thesauri, controlled vocabularies or business glossaries
- Experience operating governance, stewardship or metadata management processes
- Experience conducting workshops and working with business subject matter experts
- Experience managing semantic assets throughout their lifecycle
- Experience with semantic modeling and governance platforms
- Experience operating within enterprise data governance or architecture environments
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Company bonus scheme
- Group pension scheme
- Group healthcare and life assurance scheme
- 25 days annual holiday with incremental increase up to 30 days
- Subsidised gym membership
- Season ticket travel loan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexible benefits platform
- Extensive internal and external training
About the Company
- Our rapidly growing, award-winning business offers a dynamic environment for talented, entrepreneurial professionals to achieve results and grow their careers.
- Argus recognizes and rewards successful performance and as an Investor in People, we promote professional development and retain a high-performing team committed to building our success.