Enterprise Taxonomist

About the role

Concept Plus is seeking an Enterprise Taxonomist to manage the customer enterprise taxonomies and related business and operational processes. The Enterprise Taxonomist will ensure the quality of the customer taxonomies and promote their adoption and effectiveness by collaborating with customer subject matter experts and key stakeholders to develop and review vocabularies.

What you'll do

• Own the design, development and maintenance of taxonomies and vocabularies, in close collaboration with business subject matter experts (SME) and key stakeholders within the organization, with an eye towards continuous improvement and fit-for-purpose.
• Maintain the roster of taxonomy subject matter experts (SME) and participate in activities to facilitate their ongoing engagement.
• Translate end user or project team requests into implementable taxonomy updates; liaise with IT staff to ensure the proper implementation of taxonomy changes in the taxonomy management tool; as needed, contribute to business requirements and testing for the taxonomy management tool.
• Recommend and document metrics to support the taxonomy program – to track taxonomy changes and usage, inform taxonomy enhancements, and communicate results.
• Apply knowledge of taxonomy modeling standards to projects and initiatives that utilize the taxonomies and associated vocabularies, such as metadata design and autocategorization.
• Support the program lead in developing and implementing strategic roadmaps and play an active role in contributing to operational improvements and program communications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• Experience developing complex taxonomies for both front-end and back-end systems (e.g., information retrieval, knowledge discovery, content navigation).
• Expertise in designing and maintaining taxonomies
• Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements for Enterprise Taxonomies.
• Knowledge of integrating taxonomies.
• Familiarity with semantic technologies and tools for managing taxonomies and ontologies.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills in a multi-functional environment.
• US Citizen with ability to obtain/maintain a government Public Trust clearance.

Concept Plus is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. As such, we will give your application full consideration without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.