SENIOR TAXONOMY & METADATA SPECIALIST

Responsibilities

• Develops, refines, and implements multi-faceted controlled vocabularies such as taxonomies, ontologies, and thesauri to enable consistent description, discovery, and reuse of City information and data assets.
• Collaborates with internal stakeholder groups, senior leadership and subject matter experts to assess needs, model and conduct iterative evaluations of taxonomy designs based on feedback.
• Leads and supports City information and data description, contextualization and classification through collaboration and technology integration.
• Provides advisory services to corporate stakeholders in the areas of information management, controlled vocabulary management and taxonomy design.
• Leads and provides business administration and facilitates technical resolution to sustain the enterprise taxonomy platform.
• Performs gap analyses of existing business-controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, and metadata and recommends action plans to resolve issues.
• Assists with the definition and modeling of structural and descriptive metadata frameworks for the management of enterprise information.
• Supports on-going enhancements to include automated metadata feed rules, data transformation and normalization, classification and enrichment, and search and discovery.
• Develops policy documents and recommendations to support vocabulary, metadata management, and data governance in the organization.
• Educates stakeholders and advocates for taxonomy and metadata tagging as best practices.
• Builds corporate awareness through training, information sessions, and participating in conferences.
• Integrates controlled vocabulary as part of information management requirements for technology or project planning considerations.
• Leverages descriptive metadata to achieve more effective data governance at both divisional and enterprise levels.
• Defines and implements an enterprise / divisional data model (such as class hierarchy and attributes) and designs controlled vocabulary architecture to ensure effective development and maintenance.
• Develops, maintains, and facilitates acceptance and adoption of policies, standards, procedures and guidelines for information management, vocabulary management, and data governance within the City.
• Develops and implements information / data policies and standards to align with strategic plans for maintaining, managing, archiving and disposing of digital assets by following information management disciplines and corporate policies and standards.
• Understands, documents and works toward achieving the business capabilities needed to deliver anticipated information management benefits.
• Participates in technology procurement / enhancement and user adoption of the taxonomy management platform.

Key Qualifications :

Your application must describe your qualifications as they relate to :

• Post-secondary education in Information Management or a related discipline or equivalent combination of education and / or work experience.
• Experience designing, developing, and implementing taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, and / or metadata structures.
• Experience integrating controlled vocabulary and / or metadata needs into technology and / or projects.
• Experience providing business administration and technical resolution to sustain a taxonomy and / or related platform.
• Experience collaborating with and providing effective advice and guidance to stakeholders on Information Management and / or related disciplines.

You Must Also Have :

• The ability to work independently with minimum supervision and cooperatively as a member of a team.
• Excellent analytical, conflict resolution, problem-solving, and presentation skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with strong ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with various levels of staff within the City and all organizational levels.
• Strong coordination, organizational, and time management skills, including attention to detail with the ability to set priorities to meet deadlines.
• Ability to lead, motivate, coach, train, and work harmoniously in teams.
• Ability to support the Toronto Public Service values to ensure a culture that champions equity, diversity, and respectful workplaces.
30+ days ago