Senior Manager, Ontology
Takeda
August 21, 2026
Remote friendly (Boston, MA)
United States
$137,000 - $215,270 USD yearly
IT
Title: Senior Manager, Ontology
Location: Cambridge, MA (Hybrid)
About the role:
Hands-on R&D BioPharm data curator responsible for harmonizing Research, Development, and Global Medical data into standardized, analysis-ready, FAIR-aligned datasets. Partner with data owners/stewards and data platform teams to operationalize metadata standards, ontology/terminology mapping, versioning, and QC—improving throughput through scalable processes and targeted automation.
How will you contribute:
- Curate and harmonize biomedical datasets; ensure completeness, consistency, traceability, and audit readiness.
- Partner to collect artifacts and build metadata using templates and tooling.
- Map entities to controlled vocabularies/ontologies; manage terminology decisions, documentation, and versioning.
- Maintain application and domain ontologies; define contextual rules to support orchestration, discoverability, and reuse.
- Define/execute QC/QA standards, SOPs, and governance; produce QC outputs and release documentation.
- Lead cross-functional delivery and stakeholder communication.
- Identify workflow improvements, including automation; support onboarding and best practices.
- Facilitate working sessions/training to resolve definition conflicts and mapping edge cases.
What you bring to Takeda:
- Bachelor’s (or MS/PhD) in life sciences, bioinformatics, data science, or related field.
- 4–7+ years in biomedical data curation/harmonization, data management/modeling, and/or data governance (pharma/biotech/CRO/vendor).
- Experience mapping to controlled vocabularies/ontologies (e.g., NCIT, MedDRA, BAO, CL, CHEBI, Allotrope, PROCO).
- Experience with ontology management tools (e.g., SciBite CENtree, TopBraid Composer).
- Experience defining/executing QC/QA checks and maintaining SOPs.
- Version control experience; ability to track and merge ontology changes.
Preferred qualifications:
- Partnering with data platform/engineering teams to implement validation/QC/ingestion workflows.
- Familiarity with W3C semantic web/ontology standards (RDF/RDFS/OWL/SKOS/SHACL).
Compensation and benefits:
- U.S. base salary range: $137,000.00–$215,270.00.
- Potential eligibility for incentives; medical/dental/vision, 401(k) match, disability, life insurance, tuition reimbursement, paid volunteer time off, holidays, and well-being benefits; up to 80 hours sick time and up to 120 hours paid vacation for new hires.
Application instructions:
- Apply via the “Apply” button (submission processing per Privacy Notice and Terms of Use).
Location: Cambridge, MA (Hybrid)
About the role:
Hands-on R&D BioPharm data curator responsible for harmonizing Research, Development, and Global Medical data into standardized, analysis-ready, FAIR-aligned datasets. Partner with data owners/stewards and data platform teams to operationalize metadata standards, ontology/terminology mapping, versioning, and QC—improving throughput through scalable processes and targeted automation.
How will you contribute:
- Curate and harmonize biomedical datasets; ensure completeness, consistency, traceability, and audit readiness.
- Partner to collect artifacts and build metadata using templates and tooling.
- Map entities to controlled vocabularies/ontologies; manage terminology decisions, documentation, and versioning.
- Maintain application and domain ontologies; define contextual rules to support orchestration, discoverability, and reuse.
- Define/execute QC/QA standards, SOPs, and governance; produce QC outputs and release documentation.
- Lead cross-functional delivery and stakeholder communication.
- Identify workflow improvements, including automation; support onboarding and best practices.
- Facilitate working sessions/training to resolve definition conflicts and mapping edge cases.
What you bring to Takeda:
- Bachelor’s (or MS/PhD) in life sciences, bioinformatics, data science, or related field.
- 4–7+ years in biomedical data curation/harmonization, data management/modeling, and/or data governance (pharma/biotech/CRO/vendor).
- Experience mapping to controlled vocabularies/ontologies (e.g., NCIT, MedDRA, BAO, CL, CHEBI, Allotrope, PROCO).
- Experience with ontology management tools (e.g., SciBite CENtree, TopBraid Composer).
- Experience defining/executing QC/QA checks and maintaining SOPs.
- Version control experience; ability to track and merge ontology changes.
Preferred qualifications:
- Partnering with data platform/engineering teams to implement validation/QC/ingestion workflows.
- Familiarity with W3C semantic web/ontology standards (RDF/RDFS/OWL/SKOS/SHACL).
Compensation and benefits:
- U.S. base salary range: $137,000.00–$215,270.00.
- Potential eligibility for incentives; medical/dental/vision, 401(k) match, disability, life insurance, tuition reimbursement, paid volunteer time off, holidays, and well-being benefits; up to 80 hours sick time and up to 120 hours paid vacation for new hires.
Application instructions:
- Apply via the “Apply” button (submission processing per Privacy Notice and Terms of Use).