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The Ontology Expert role at NTT DATA involves designing and governing healthcare ontologies and semantic models to support AI-driven solutions. Candidates should have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field and 4-8 years of experience in ontology development. Proficiency in OWL, RDF, and Python is essential, along with a strong understanding of healthcare data. The position offers remote work flexibility and requires collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure semantic accuracy and clinical relevance.
Job Responsibility:
Design, build, and maintain healthcare ontologies, taxonomies, and semantic models
Define domain vocabularies, concepts, and relationships for AI-driven and agentic solutions
Support knowledge representation for AI agents, clinical decision-support, and intelligence systems
Collaborate with clinicians, data scientists, and AI engineers to translate domain knowledge into formal semantic models
Govern ontology lifecycle, versioning, documentation, and semantic consistency
Develop ontologies using OWL, RDF, and SKOS standards
Apply healthcare terminologies including SNOMED CT, ICD-10, LOINC, and RxNorm
Enable semantic interoperability across EHRs and healthcare data sources
Support reasoning, inference, and rule-based logic for AI systems
Enable AI and GenAI systems with structured healthcare knowledge
Support agentic workflows, decision models, and explainable AI (XAI) outputs
Collaborate on RAG pipelines and knowledge graph integration for LLM-based systems
Ensure semantic accuracy, safety, and clinical relevance of AI outputs
Requirements:
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Health Informatics, Data Science, Semantic Web, or related field
4–8+ years of experience in ontology development or semantic modeling, preferably in healthcare
Strong understanding of US healthcare data and terminology
Hands-on experience with ontology languages, standards, and modeling techniques
Proficiency in Python for ontology processing, validation, or AI integration
Experience working with cross-functional AI and clinical teams
Nice to have:
Experience with knowledge graphs and graph databases
Exposure to LLMs, GenAI, and agentic AI architectures
Familiarity with FHIR-aligned semantic models
Experience in payer / managed care environments (Medicaid, Medicare)