Junior Graph Data Engineer
Core
Design and deploy automated pipelines to discover, catalog, and ingest enterprise data assets, maintaining an ontology-grounded metadata graph for analysts and AI agents.
Role type
Junior Graph Data Engineer
Builds
Enterprise Semantic Map (ontology-grounded metadata graph)
Domain
Government/Defense data infrastructure & Knowledge Graphs
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Python, SQL, Java, RDF, JSON, XML, ETL, data pipelines, graph concepts, metadata management, data lineage
Preferred skills
Graph query languages, agentic AI, LLM orchestration, data catalogs, workflow orchestration tools
Responsibilities
Design and deploy automated pipelines for data asset discovery and integration; Scan, catalog, and ingest technical metadata from legacy and cloud environments; Register data origins to support provenance tracking; Align data elements with enterprise ontologies; Develop and test basic graph queries for metadata retrieval; Collaborate with AI engineers to help agents query the graph and develop retrieval strategies; Maintain and optimize the Enterprise Semantic Map.
Seniority
Junior, hands-on IC