We are seeking a Principal Ontology Architect with 15+ years of experience in ontology architecture, semantic modeling, knowledge graphs, and enterprise data architecture, with deep expertise in Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) and Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN).
The role involves defining enterprise ontology strategy, designing and governing complex banking knowledge models, establishing FIBO
BIAN semantic interoperability, and providing technical leadership for enterprise knowledge graph initiatives.

Responsibilities:
Define enterprise ontology architecture, strategy, standards, and governance frameworks.
Design and maintain FIBO-V vocabularies aligned with enterprise banking and financial services requirements.
Develop complex semantic models using RDF, RDFS, OWL, and semantic web standards.
Architect BIAN service domains, business capabilities, and banking concepts as OWL ontologies.
Design and govern FIBO
BIAN bridge models to enable enterprise-wide semantic interoperability.
Define mappings between banking business concepts, processes, entities, products, and services across FIBO and BIAN.




Establish reusable ontology patterns, controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, and enterprise semantic standards.
Lead ontology lifecycle management, governance, validation, and versioning practices.
Define ontology constraints, business rules, reasoning mechanisms, and semantic validation frameworks.
Architect and optimize enterprise knowledge graph solutions using graph databases and semantic technologies.
Develop and optimize complex SPARQL queries for large-scale knowledge graphs.
Provide architectural guidance on semantic integration, knowledge graphs, and enterprise data interoperability.
Mentor ontology engineers and provide technical leadership across semantic technology initiatives.
Collaborate with business, data, architecture, and technology stakeholders to align semantic models with enterprise objectives.

Positive to Have:
GraphDB, Stardog, Apache Jena, RDF4J, TopBraid, Neo4j, Python, Enterprise Data Architecture, Knowledge Graph Strategy, Ontology Automation, Banking Data Models, Cloud Platforms"

📌 Principal Ontology Architect Fibo Bian Chennai
🏢 Nasu Group
📍 Chennai