Echo Services Inc.

Senior Taxonomy, Knowledge Architecture Lead

Echo Services Inc.

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: WashingtonUnited States

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Salary

💰 $120,000 - $155,000 per year

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About the role

  • Define and evolve enterprise taxonomy, metadata, and semantic modeling strategies aligned to business and knowledge management objectives
  • Lead impact analyses, audits, and continuous improvement of taxonomies, metadata schemas, tagging frameworks, and controlled vocabularies
  • Position taxonomy and knowledge architecture as the semantic backbone for Copilot, Fabric, semantic search, and AI driven experiences
  • Follow governance models for managed metadata, content types, and metadata workflows across distributed teams
  • Partner with business stakeholders, data owners, and content leaders to ensure shared language, conceptual clarity, and consistent knowledge representation
  • Serve as the subject matter authority on taxonomy, metadata, and ontology best practices across the organization
  • Define success measures and validate that implementations improve findability, coherence, and AI response quality
  • Architect, configure, and maintain Taxonomy API
  • SharePoint Term Store global term groups and term sets, content types and managed metadata implementations
  • Design and manage API integrations connecting taxonomy and term store data with Copilot agents, search, and knowledge management systems
  • Implement taxonomy endpoints, metadata tagging automation, and ontology synchronization between systems (e.g., Taxonomy Service → Power Platform)
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure scalable, high-performance taxonomy API and metadata services
  • Identify and implement success measures to validate projected outcomes
  • Translate complex taxonomy, ontology, and metadata concepts for engineers, program managers, and executives
  • Lead knowledge sharing sessions, design reviews, and strategic presentations
  • Mentor taxonomy specialists, analysts, and content professionals, fostering technical excellence and shared practices
  • Partner with clients to understand enterprise information challenges and design sustainable knowledge architecture solutions

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in taxonomy design, metadata management, knowledge architecture, or related enterprise information roles, with demonstrated impact at scale
  • Deep expertise in taxonomy practice, including controlled vocabularies, semantic modeling, and enterprise metadata governance
  • Hands-on experience with Microsoft 365, including SharePoint Online, Syntex / document processing, and managed metadata frameworks
  • Experience with semantic platforms such as PoolParty or equivalent ontology and vocabulary management tools
  • Strong technical domain knowledge, including: Metadata strategy, ontology management, information retrieval, and semantic search API-based integration of taxonomy and metadata services
  • AI-driven content enrichment, semantic search, and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) concepts
  • Digital workplace platforms, CRM systems, and enterprise knowledge tools
  • Proven ability to collaborate closely with engineering teams while retaining ownership of conceptual, semantic, and information design decisions
  • Demonstrated success delivering taxonomy and metadata initiatives end to end, from strategy and stakeholder alignment through implementation, adoption, and governance
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate between business needs and technical execution
  • Experience using project management and delivery tools, such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or Asana, and working alongside CRM platforms such as Dynamics 365 or Salesforce
  • Master’s degree in Information Science, Information Management, Library Science, Knowledge Management, or a related field.
Benefits
  • Employee medical insurance split at 80% employer: 20% employee
  • Employer paid employee dental, vision, and long-term disability
  • 120 annual hours of accruing PTO to start
  • 10 paid holidays corresponding to client's holidays.
  • 2 Elective days off chosen by employee
  • Monthly stipend for use of personal device (device to be used for 2FA).
  • All other equipment provided by Echo Services and client.
  • 401(k) program enrollment with up to 4% employer matching funds after one year of employment and 1000 hours.
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Hard Skills & Tools
taxonomy designmetadata managementknowledge architecturesemantic modelingcontrolled vocabulariesmetadata governanceAPI integrationsinformation retrievalsemantic searchcontent enrichment
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationmentoringstrategic presentationsknowledge sharingstakeholder alignmentconceptual claritytechnical excellencetranslating complex conceptscontinuous improvement
Certifications
Master’s degree in Information ScienceMaster’s degree in Information ManagementMaster’s degree in Library ScienceMaster’s degree in Knowledge Management