Product Owner - Ontology

Description:

Client is seeking a Product Owner Ontology to lead the enterprise semantic layer across mortgage origination, servicing, data, and AI platforms. The role will translate business concepts into governed, reusable domain models and drive their adoption across applications, analytics, and agentic AI workflows.

Key Responsibilities :

• Own the ontology product vision, roadmap, backlog, release plan, and adoption strategy.
• Define enterprise domain models, entity relationships, taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, constraints, and semantic standards.
• Establish ontology governance, stewardship, versioning, change control, impact assessment, lineage, and quality metrics.
• Partner with business SMEs, data engineering, architecture, risk, and compliance to map source systems and validate semantic models.
• Translate business needs into epics, user stories, competency questions, acceptance criteria, and production validation tests.
• Enable governed semantic grounding for knowledge graphs, analytics, LLMs, and AI agents with appropriate permissions and auditability.

Experience and Technical Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in product management, business analysis, or data product ownership, including experience delivering semantic or domain-modeling solutions.
• Strong knowledge of ontology and knowledge-representation concepts, including class hierarchies, relationships, cardinality, inheritance, constraints, and controlled vocabularies.
• Experience with RDF, OWL, SKOS, SHACL, SPARQL, Neo4j/Cypher, or comparable semantic and knowledge-graph technologies.
• Working knowledge of SQL, source-data profiling, data mapping, and model validation.
• Strong stakeholder facilitation and communication skills; mortgage domain and MISMO knowledge are preferred.