About Ascendion

Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.

Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life

We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:

• Build the coolest tech for world’s leading brands
• Solve complex problems – and learn new skills
• Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients
• Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience

Experience a community of change makers!

Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.

About the Role:

• We are looking for a Taxonomist to support research, data analysis, design, and implementation of taxonomies to support Content Understanding for the Taxonomy team at Client.
• The crux of this contract will be working with other Taxonomists to support data analysis, taxonomy enrichment, taxonomy design, and implementation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Detailed data analysis (Excel, GoogleSheets or scripting languages) to identify metadata trends, potential taxonomy quality issues.
• Research (both internal and external) to enrich node metadata.
• Proactive status reporting on progress, questions, issues, or potential opportunity areas with partners and stakeholders.
• Implementation based on taxonomy governance guidelines.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3+ 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 ownership and ability to self-start, build relationships with partners, and develop a point of view.

Location: Seattle, WA - 98109 (100% Onsite)

Salary Range: The salary for this position is $80,000 - $110,000 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: (medical insurance) (dental insurance) (vision insurance) (401(k) retirement plan) (long-term disability insurance) (short-term disability insurance) (5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State) (10-15 days of paid vacation time) (6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year) (Ascendion Learning Management System)

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