Taxonomist, OppenheimerFunds, Denver, CO
Posted November 5, 2014
External Job Description
Responsibilities Include:
- Work with business users to develop the appropriate metadata and terms to allow them to classify their content.
- Analysis of stakeholder needs and communicate/partner effectively with subject matter experts to validate controlled vocabulary expansion and mappings.
- Pinpoints terminology, attributes and categorization structures critical to data definition and retrieval in search.
- Construct and maintain the enterprise taxonomy for use in classification and to enhance search; Gathers insights from multiple data sources and makes informed decisions to improve performance of search.
- Develops analysis and make recommendations leading to improvement opportunities such as performing keyword level analytics, profiling, etc.
Experienced Required:
- Experience in constructing and assessing taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, classification standards and metadata schemas that target search needs of the enterprise.
- Knowledge of best practices around maintenance of taxonomies, thesauri, and control vocabularies.
- Experience in developing process documentation and in producing taxonomy methodology guild lines.
- Skilled at taxonomy enhancement through analysis of subject matter expert feedback, user metrics, and search log trends.
- Experience with normalization and repurposing of third-party metadata and optimization of keywords from a variety of sources.
- Familiarity with ontologies and current developments in industry.
- Strong written and oral communications skills.
Additional Requirements:
- Bachelors Degree in Library Information Science, Information Architecture, Linguistics or other closely related analytical field or equivalent experience required.
- Graduate training preferred.
- MLIS degree is highly desirable.
- Minimum 3 years experience in a data analytics field preferred.
- Experience with Concept Searching and SharePoint technologies preferred.
- Experience with data modeling, taxonomy and schema development preferred.
- Understanding of Information Management systems preferred.
- Experience with information architecture and developing a controlled vocabulary/thesaurus preferred.
OFI Core Competencies
Leadership and Communication
Has passion to win; champions change and innovation; motivates others to follow despite ambiguity; addresses conflict and makes tough decisions; builds coalitions; does not place self before others; accepts ownership and accountability; inspires trust; fosters open communication.
Planning and Execution
Conducts careful and systematic analysis; drives for results; follows through on commitments; aligns, plans, develops and deploys coherent goals; ensures customer loyalty through continuously improving performance, products and services.
Business Insight
Understands business context; possesses necessary financial acumen and broad understanding of financial services; maximizes technology.
Personal Credibility
Is interpersonally savvy; peaks and presents effectively; continuously learns and grows; develops self; grasps development opportunities; breaks out of silos; listens to others; is successful and resilient.
Corporate Values
The candidate must be comfortable with continuous change and demonstrate commitment by abiding to OFI’s Corporate Values:
- Excellence
- Integrity
- Collaboration
- Passion
OppenheimerFunds and its subsidiaries and affiliates provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified individuals without regard to age, color, disability, gender, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, physical or mental disability, genetic predisposition or carrier status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law in all employment functions including recruitment, evaluation, selection, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, and termination of employment.