Product Owner – Ontology

Job Opportunity in Edison, NJ

Join our dynamic team in Edison, NJ, where innovation meets opportunity. We are looking for a dedicated professional to drive our ontology initiatives and help shape the future of our knowledge representation strategies.

Must-Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Expertise in ontology and knowledge representation including class hierarchies, relationships, cardinality, inheritance, constraints, taxonomies, and controlled vocabularies.
• Proficiency with RDF, OWL, SKOS, SHACL, SPARQL, Neo4j/Cypher or comparable semantic and knowledge-graph technologies.
• Experience with SQL, source-data profiling, data mapping, and model validation.
• Knowledge of ontology governance, lineage, quality metrics, permissions, and auditability.
• Mortgage domain and MISMO knowledge is preferred.

Roles & 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 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.

About Tanisha Systems, Inc.

Tanisha Systems, founded in 2002 in Massachusetts-USA, is a leading provider of Custom Application Development and end-to-end IT Services to clients globally. We use a client-centric engagement model that combines local on-site and off-site resources with the cost, global expertise, and quality advantages of off-shore operations. We deliver Custom Application Development, Application Modernization, Business Process Outsourcing, and Professional IT Services from office locations in USA and India.

Tanisha Systems services clients in Government, Banking & Financial Markets, Insurance, Healthcare, Retail & Consumer Goods, Energy & Utilities, Life Sciences, Telecom, Manufacturing, and Transportation Industries around the globe. Our engagement model provides a flexible operational environment that empowers our clients with the right levels of control.

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