64715 - Taxonomist

64715 - Taxonomist

Location: UK Remote
Length: 6 months
Start date: Asap
Rate: £28.37 per hour (Inside IR35)
Hours: 40 hours per week

Summary:
Our client is looking for a Taxonomist to support research, data analysis, design, and implementation of taxonomies to support content understanding for the Taxonomy team. The crux of this contract will be adding taxonomy mappings and providing metadata enrichment to support company-wide efficiency and taxonomy excellence.

Job Responsibilities:

• Detailed data analysis (Excel, Google Sheets or scripting languages) to identify identical and/or fuzzy matches across multiple vocabularies

• Research (both internal and external) to enrich node metadata

• Status reporting on progress, questions, issues, or potential opportunity areas with partners and stakeholders
• Implementation based on taxonomy governance guidelines
• Datal labelling based on taxonomy guidelines

Minimum Requirements:

• 1-2 years of experience in developing taxonomies/or ontologies to support a variety of systems both for front-end and back-end use.
• Experience developing taxonomies, thesauri, or ontologies.
• Experiencing researching and defining taxonomy and ontology node metadata based on existing standards
• Strong ability to proactively communicate about projects and workstreams
• Strong affinity for detail-oriented taxonomy development work

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with taxonomy or ontology management software
• Extensive experience with Excel or Google Sheets

Top 3 non - negotiable skills:
? Data analysis at scale (Excel, Google Sheets)
? Taxonomy experience, information architecture understanding
? Any scripting languages