AI-Ready Knowledge Architect - Remote

Genesis10 is currently seeking an AI-Ready Knowledge Architect for a Remote position with a Major Financial Institution located in Cleveland, OH. This is a 6 month contract opportunity.

We are seeking an AI-Ready Knowledge Architect to play a critical role in designing and maintaining the enterprise information architecture essential for cataloging data for self-service understanding and enabling AI-ready data and knowledge usage. This role defines and enforces standards for data modeling, taxonomy, semantic structures, and knowledge representation to ensure consistency and interoperability. The successful candidate will partner with business and technology teams to develop and maintain the enterprise data domain model and ontologies that support governance frameworks, trusted analytics, and downstream consumption across business intelligence (BI), applied AI/ML, and Large Language Model (LLM) use cases.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and maintenance of the enterprise data domain model, taxonomy, and ontologies to ensure shared understanding, semantic consistency, and discoverability of data and knowledge assets
• Design and evolve information and semantic models that make enterprise data AI-ready, supporting use cases ranging from traditional analytics and BI to applied machine learning and LLM-based experiences
• Operationalize data models, taxonomies, and semantic structures through the Enterprise Data Catalog (Alation)
• Define and enforce standards for data modeling, taxonomy, nomenclature, and semantic structures to ensure consistency and interoperability
• Confirm and document prioritized metadata elements for key business processes, analytical use cases, and AI-enabled workflows, ensuring alignment with governance standards and risk expectations
• Identify simplification opportunities to reduce redundancy, converge overlapping datasets, and promote canonical sources
• Partner with analytics, data science, and AI engineering teams to ensure information architecture is sufficient to support explainable, governed, and trustworthy AI outcomes

Requirements:

• 7-10 years of experience working with data, metadata, and reference data frameworks, including experience in metadata management and/or data quality monitoring
• Experience leading the development of enterprise business glossaries, domain models, and ontologies to enable semantic consistency, shared understanding, and AI ready data usage
• Understanding of how semantic models, metadata, and knowledge representation enable applied AI and LLM use cases, such as search, question answering, and decision support
• Strong business acumen in relating data to business process drivers and performance management, with a value delivery mindset
• Collaborative, team focused delivery experience that drives outcomes across enterprise data, analytics, and technology organizations
• Excellent knowledge of data and metadata management principles, business analysis, and process engineering

Desired skills:

• Knowledge Graphs: Neo4j, Stardog, Amazon Neptune / Azure Cosmos DB (Graph)
• Ontology & Semantic Modeling: OWL / RDF / SKOS, Protg, TopBraid, Stardog Studio
• Enterprise Data & Knowledge Catalogs: Alation, Collibra, Microsoft Purview, DataHub
• Knowledge Modeling Techniques: Ontologies & domain models, Business vocabularies & taxonomies, Semantic normalization, Entity & relationship modeling
• AI Context Delivery (Grounding Layer): Vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Azure AI Search), Graph vector retrieval (hybrid RAG), Metadata-driven prompt context

Pay range: $85.00 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!

Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20 years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.

Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.