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JOB DESCRIPTION
Req ID: 367052
We are currently seeking a Ontology Expert – Remote to join our team in Dallas, Texas (US-TX), United States (US).
Ontology Expert – Healthcare AI Solutions
Day to Day job Duties: (what this person will do on a daily/weekly basis)
Role Summary
We are seeking an experienced Ontology Expert to design, develop, and govern healthcare ontologies that power AI-driven and agentic healthcare solutions. The role focuses on building semantic models that enable interoperability, reasoning, knowledge representation, and explainable AI across clinical and healthcare enterprise systems.
Key Responsibilities
– Design, build, and maintain healthcare ontologies and semantic models.
– Define domain vocabularies, taxonomies, and relationships for AI-driven solutions.
– Support knowledge representation for AI agents, decision-support, and clinical intelligence systems.
– Collaborate with clinicians, data scientists, and AI engineers to translate knowledge into formal models.
– Govern ontology lifecycle, versioning, and semantic consistency.
Healthcare Ontology & Semantic Modeling
– Develop ontologies using standards such as OWL, RDF, and SKOS.
– Work with healthcare standards and terminologies (SNOMED CT, ICD-10, LOINC, RxNorm).
– Enable semantic interoperability across EHRs and healthcare data sources.
– Support reasoning, inference, and rule-based logic for AI systems.
AI & Agentic Solution Support
– Enable AI and GenAI systems with structured healthcare knowledge.
– Support agentic workflows, decision models, and explainable AI outputs.
– Collaborate on RAG pipelines and knowledge graph integration for LLM-based systems.
– Ensure semantic accuracy and safety for clinical use cases.
Technical Skills & Tools
– Strong knowledge of OWL, RDF, SPARQL, and knowledge graph technologies.
– Experience with ontology tools such as Protégé, TopBraid, or Stardog.
– Familiarity with FHIR, HL7, and healthcare data models.
– Exposure to AI/ML and GenAI systems, including LLM-enabled solutions.
– Programming or scripting experience in Python or similar languages (preferred).
Compliance, Governance & Quality
– Ensure ontologies align with clinical safety, regulatory, and compliance requirements.
– Support auditability, traceability, and explainability of AI decisions.
– Define semantic governance policies and best practices.
Basic Qualifications: (what are the skills required to this job with minimum years of experience on each)
Required Skills & Experience
– 5+ years of experience in ontology engineering, semantic modeling, or knowledge engineering.
– Strong healthcare domain knowledge (clinical, payer, or life sciences).
– Experience working with structured and unstructured healthcare data.
– Ability to collaborate across technical and clinical teams.
Nice to Have;
Preferred Qualifications
– Background in clinical informatics or biomedical informatics.
– Experience with healthcare AI platforms or decision-support systems.
– Knowledge of semantic search, reasoning engines, or knowledge graphs.
– Advanced degree in Computer Science, Biomedical Informatics, or related fields.
Soft Skills
– Strong analytical and conceptual thinking abilities.
– Excellent communication skills to work with clinical and technical stakeholders.
– Attention to detail and passion for semantic accuracy.
Why Join Us
This role offers the opportunity to shape the semantic foundation of AI-driven healthcare solutions, supporting intelligent agents, explainable AI, and interoperable healthcare systems at scale.
About NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.
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