Enterprise Ontology Leader – IDEA by Lear

Job title: Enterprise Ontology Leader – IDEA by Lear

About the Role A high-impact leadership role at Lear's IDEA by Lear initiative, leading the design, governance, and evolution of Lear’s enterprise ontology within Palantir Foundry and AIP. You will create reusable ontology objects, semantic layers, and data frameworks to power analytics, automation, and AI workloads across global operations.

What You'll Do

• Own and evolve Lear's enterprise ontology architecture and strategy, including semantic models, entity relationships, and shared data objects.
• Develop a long-term ontology roadmap aligned to the IDEA by Lear digital strategy and Palantir platform capabilities.
• Define ontology patterns and reusable data objects to enable rapid use case development and cross-functional adoption.
• Architect semantic layers and feature sets within Palantir Foundry to support data ingestion, transformation, data mesh principles, and operational applications.
• Enable AIP use cases through well-architected ontology objects that support AI agent workflows, LLM grounding, and automated reasoning.
• Collaborate with business leaders, product owners, data engineers, data scientists, and manufacturing teams across the globe to translate needs into ontology designs.
• Mentor and guide a growing internal ontology team and cross-functional data contributors.
• Establish and maintain ontology governance standards, versioning controls, and approval workflows. Ensure consistency, accuracy, and scalability of enterprise data definitions across business units. Drive adoption of a single source of truth mentality across the organization.
• Enable scalable analytical applications, digital twins, quality intelligence solutions, shopfloor automations, and enterprise KPI frameworks. Define ontology components that power predictive analytics, AI/ML models, and automated decision systems.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Data Science, Knowledge Engineering, Information Systems, or related field; or equivalent work experience. Experience in ontology development, semantic modeling, enterprise data architecture, or knowledge graph design. Hands-on expertise with Palantir Foundry ontology. Deep understanding of data modeling, reference architectures, ER design, and metadata management. Experience in global environments with large volumes of manufacturing, supply chain, commercial, or engineering data. Excellent communication and ability to influence and collaborate with technical and business leaders.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Palantir AIP, knowledge graph-based AI, or grounding LLMs through semantic ontologies.
• Background in manufacturing or automotive industries.
• Experience with data governance frameworks and data mesh architectures.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive cultural adoption of data standards.