Enterprise Ontology Leader - IDEA

Position: Enterprise Ontology Leader - IDEA by Lear
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We're Lear For You. ENTERPRISE ONTOLOGY LEADER – IDEA BY LEARSOUTHFIELD, MIAbout Lear and IDEA by Lear:

Lear is a global Tier 1 automotive supplier of Seating and E‑Systems, powering the next generation of mobility with advanced electronics, connectivity, and intelligent manufacturing. As part of our multi‑year Digital & Automation Transformation — IDEA by Lear (Innovation, Digital, Engineering, and Automation) — we are building an enterprise-level Data and AI capability that enables faster, more automated, and more intelligent decision-making across our global operations.

To accelerate this transformation, Lear has made a significant, multiyear strategic investment in Palantir Foundry and Palantir AIP, establishing a unified enterprise ontology, a single source of truth, and a foundation for AI-driven automation  are expanding our Data & AI leadership team and seeking an experienced Enterprise Ontology Leader to architect, grow, and operationalize our global ontology strategy.

As a member of the IDEA by Lear team, the Enterprise Ontology Leader will be responsible for designing, governing, and evolving Lear’s enterprise ontology within Palantir Foundry and AIP. This leader will develop reusable ontology objects, common semantic layers, and data frameworks that support advanced analytics, production automation, and AI/ML workloads across Seating, E-Systems, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Finance, and Commercial operations.

This role will be foundational in enabling a single pane of glass view of operational performance and powering new digital solutions that scale globally and accelerate speed to value.

The Role:

Your work will include, but not be limited to:

Enterprise Ontology Architecture & Strategy Design, own, and continuously enhance Lear’s enterprise-wide ontology, 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. Foundry & AIP Enablement 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. Collaboration & Leadership Partner with business leaders, product owners, data engineers, data scientists, and manufacturing teams across the globe to understand needs and translate them into ontology designs. Serve as the enterprise expert and evangelist for semantic modeling, data standards, and ontology best practices.

Mentor and guide a growing internal ontology team and cross-functional data contributors. Governance & Quality Establish and maintain ontology governance standards, versioning controls, and approval workflows. Ensure consistency, accuracy, and scalability of…