Ontologist/Data Scientist
The Red Arch Distinction
People First
Red Arch Solutions is a flat, highly collaborative organization where your voice is heard. We prioritize work/life balance and individualized professional growth, backed by a 100% company-paid healthcare model, a robust annual training allocation, and an elite technical community solving our nation's most urgent national security challenges.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Current State Assessment: Conduct comprehensive evaluations of existing data assets and metadata tagging practices across DIA and partner IC elements. Identify gaps, inconsistencies, and alignment with the IC Data Reference Architecture (IC DRA).
Standards Development: Architect and develop standardized, modularized metadata requirements and controlled vocabularies that comply with ICD 504 and the IC Data Strategy.
Automated Tagging Enablement: Establish baseline common metadata tags designed specifically to support machine learning and automated tagging tools for both structured and unstructured data.
Ecosystem Integration: Validate metadata interoperability with enterprise catalogs (e.g., IC Data Catalog/ATLAS) and other IC-wide data discovery tools.
Stakeholder Guidance: Support data consumers and stewards through the development of policies, guidance documentation, and metadata management training.
Qualifications
Clearance: Active, current Top Secret / SCI with Polygraph is mandatory.
Experience: 12+ years of experience in ontology, data modeling, or metadata management within large-scale federal or intelligence environments. Systems engineering experience within the DoD or IC. A BS degree can be used in lieu of 4 years of experience.
Technical Literacy: Proven experience in developing taxonomies, semantic models and data catalogs. Deep understanding of IC data governance policies (ICD 504).
Education: Bachelor’s degree in library science, Information Science, Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field.
Experience with semantic web technologies (RDF, OWL, SPARQL) and enterprise data catalog tools (Apache Atlas, Collibra, or specialized GOTS tools).
Familiarity with Natural Language Processing (NLP) or Machine Learning applications in data tagging.
Exceptional analytical thinking and the ability to articulate complex data structures to non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
100% paid employee healthcare premiums. CareFirst Advantage Best in Class Benefits.
HaloScripts Concierge prescription medication service
Generous PTO.
10% 401K 6% match vested day one and up to 4% profit sharing contribution.
Annualized bonus compensation.
Spot bonuses for hard work.
Tuition reimbursement.
529 College Saving Plan.
College Loan Pay Back Program.
11 Paid Federal Holidays
Generous Referral Bonuses.