Senior Ontologist, Institutional Research

Senior Ontologist, Institutional Research

Russell Tobin’s client is seeking a highly experienced Senior Ontologist to support institutional research initiatives through ontology and taxonomy development, semantic technologies, and natural language processing.

• Pay Rate: $160–$165/hour
• Employment Type: Temp-to-perm
• Work Arrangement: Hybrid – 3 days onsite and 2 days remote per week

What You’ll Be Doing

• Maintain and enhance the Brokerage Research Ontology (msRo) and Trending Topics Taxonomy.
• Develop definitions for new concepts and entities and coordinate with internal business teams and external reference data providers.
• Partner with business stakeholders to support NLP, ontology, and taxonomy-related projects.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications and serve as a bridge between business teams and technology partners.
• Validate outputs from LLMs and other machine learning models using testing tools and subject matter expertise.
• Collaborate with data science teams to incorporate quantitative results into unstructured research content.
• Work with technology teams supporting Mondeca to improve named entity recognition (NER) and document tagging.
• Support the accurate application of ontology and taxonomy rules across financial research documents.
• Help improve search accuracy and document tagging within an Elasticsearch index containing hundreds of thousands of financial research reports.
• Educate stakeholders on semantic technologies, ontologies, taxonomies, and relevant industry developments.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of experience applying ontologies and taxonomies, preferably within financial or economic research.
• Advanced hands-on experience with Web Ontology Language (OWL) and SPARQL .
• Experience with SKOS and at least one additional industry ontology; GIST is a plus.
• Strong writing and language skills, with the ability to create clear, accurate, and understandable definitions.
• Familiarity with financial and economic analysis, including company filings, products and services, commodities, industry analysis, and macroeconomics.
• Knowledge of financial market reference data, including tickers, pricing, and corporate ownership hierarchies.
• Familiarity with financial instruments such as equities, bonds, structured products, currencies, and derivatives.
• Experience with NLP techniques, including named entity recognition (NER) and regular expressions.
• Python and/or shell scripting experience, along with familiarity with a major programming language such as Java, C++, or C#.
• Understanding of data science and machine learning concepts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with financial research content and large-scale document repositories.
• Familiarity with Mondeca, Elasticsearch, and automated document tagging.
• Experience collaborating with business stakeholders, data scientists, and technology teams.

PrideGlobal and it's affiliates offers eligible employee's comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.

PrideGlobal and it's affiliates are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of the race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decision making, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

PrideGlobal and it's affiliates are a Fair Chance employer. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local Fair Chance laws and ordinances, including, the California Fair Chance Act and all applicable local Fair Chance ordinances.

Accommodations

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of this role, please contact us.

Only applicable for San Francisco Candidates : Under the San Francisco Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance, we will provide written notice of lactation accommodation rights, and this notice will automatically be given upon hiring, any inquiry of parental leave or lactation accommodation