Principal Software Architect, Buliding Ontology

Honeywell
Atlanta
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Collaboration","Communication","Problem-solving"]

Senior Ontologist role designing, developing, and operationalizing building ontologies and taxonomies to power data interoperability, analytics, and intelligent systems across connected buildings products. Hands-on with domain modeling, semantic technologies, governance, and a strategic platform focus; collaborates with data engineers, platform architects, and product teams to ensure scalable semantic models aligned with industry standards.

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Honeywell
Honeywell
4 months ago

Principal Software Architect, Buliding Ontology

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Job Summary

Senior Ontologist role designing, developing, and operationalizing building ontologies and taxonomies to power data interoperability, analytics, and intelligent systems across connected buildings products. Hands-on with domain modeling, semantic technologies, governance, and a strategic platform focus; collaborates with data engineers, platform architects, and product teams to ensure scalable semantic models aligned with industry standards.
Location: Atlanta
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and maintain industrial ontologies, taxonomies, and knowledge models covering assets, spaces, processes, and operational data.
  • •Develop and extend models aligned with Brick Schema, Project Haystack, ASHRAE 233P, IFC, and related ontologies.
  • •Define clear concept hierarchies, relationships, constraints, and naming conventions.
  • •Conduct ontology alignment and integration with external knowledge bases and domain-specific ontologies.
  • •Map, align, and reconcile concepts across multiple industry schemas and customer-specific models.

Key Requirements

  • •Deep, hands-on experience in ontology engineering and taxonomy design for industrial or building domains.
  • •Strong working knowledge of Brick Schema, Project Haystack, and IFC.
  • •Proven experience building real-world, production-grade semantic models.
  • •Understanding of Large Language models along with structured knowledge of graphs for semantic backbone creation.
  • •Expert-level proficiency in OWL 2, RDF, RDFS, SPARQL, SHACL, SKOS, JSON-LD, and Turtle; familiarity with two or more graph databases (e.g., Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, Stardog).
Experience:Building automationIndustrialSemantic web
Skills:CollaborationCommunicationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:OWL 2RDFRDFSSPARQLSHACLSKOSJSON-LDTurtleNeo4jAmazon NeptuneStardogGraphDBVirtuosoOntotextTigerGraphAWSGCPAzureApache KafkaDbt

Company Brief

Honeywell
Global diversified technology and manufacturing company providing aerospace systems, building technologies, performance materials, and safety & productivity solutions for industrial, commercial, and consumer markets.
Industry: Conglomerates & Holding Companies
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 25B to 50B
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Charlotte, United States
Founded: 1906
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