What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Engineer II - Ontology Lead position at Cross River Bank?
Who We Are
Cross River is a highly profitable, fast-growing financial technology company powering the future of financial services. Our comprehensive suite of innovative and scalable embedded payments, cards, and lending products deliver financial services for millions of businesses and consumers around the globe. Cross River is backed by leading investors and serves the world’s most essential fintech and technology companies. Together with its partners, Cross River is reshaping global finance and financial inclusion.
We are on a mission to build the infrastructure that propels access, inclusion, and the democratization of financial services. While our company has tripled in size over the last three years, our strong sense of purpose led Cross River to be named to American Banker’s list of Best Places to Work in Fintech for the last 6 years. The reason for this success is simple – our nimble and collaborative family culture lives in every member of our growing team. Together we are at the forefront of technology and innovation, and we invite passionate, collaborative, and motivated high performers to join our expanding team.
What We're Looking For
The role of the Data Engineer II - Data Engineer II - Ontology Lead is to develop, implement, and maintain enterprise ontologies in support of Cross River's Data Strategy.
The Data Engineer II - Ontology Lead, will be responsible for working collaboratively across Cross River Lines of Business and Functions to develop domain ontologies in support of enterprise initiatives with a focus on BSA / AML related processes, including screening and transaction monitoring. The Data Engineer II - Ontology Lead will be responsible for partnering with Technology, Compliance, Product, and other Cross River teams to support the development and integration of semantic technology into Cross River products and services. These activities will support the implementation of Palantir Foundry.
The Data Engineer II - Ontology Lead should be capable of supporting an emerging and evolving semantic program at Cross River, capable of clearly communicating and advocating the value of using semantic technology and knowledge organization concepts.
Primary Responsibilities :
- Define clear and actionable problem statements to help teams deliver results while displaying a comprehensive understanding of ontologies and optimized data models
- Leverage customer insights to influence priorities and roadmap development while advocating for and driving alignment between stakeholders in the development of acceptance criteria
- Own and prioritize the near-term Ontology roadmap for the Palantir implementation to deliver on business outcomes, quickly identifying points of leverage in complex problems or systems, and utilizing data effectively to define success metrics and measurable outcomes
- Utilize balanced judgment in decisions about risks of both actions taken and not taken while innovating on ways to iterate faster in a well-managed way for the immediate team
- Understand and leverage technology and end-state architecture vision in partnership with Technology, Data Science, and other Cross River teams to support the development and integration the ontology support BSA / AML Compliance.
- Deliver value by creating reusable, extensible and resilient capabilities and proactively identify opportunities when key metrics are not performing
- Communicate and advocate the value of Cross River's efforts in ontologies, semantics, and standardization across the business.
- Maintain awareness of competitor and industry developments related to ontology use, knowledge organization, data modeling, and machine learning
- Understand and adhere to W3C standards related to ontologies, in particular RDF, RDFS, OWL, SKOS, and SHACL
- Develop standards, guidelines, and direction for ontology, semantics and Data Standardization in general at Cross River
Role-Based Competencies :
Qualifications :
Preferred Qualifications :
LI-TP1 #LI-Hybrid #LI-Onsite
Salary Range : $150,000.00 - $180,000.00
Cross River is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Cross River does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
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Salary : $150,000 - $180,000
