Senior Knowledge Graph Construction Specialist (Remote UAE)

About the role

A fully remote, 100% work-from-home position for a Senior Knowledge Graph Construction Specialist in the United Arab Emirates. The specialist designs, develops and maintains structured knowledge graphs that represent complex relationships between entities, concepts and information sources, combining knowledge representation, graph data modelling, semantic technologies and data integration.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable knowledge graph architectures for structured and unstructured data.
• Develop entity schemas, graph models, ontologies and semantic data structures.
• Extract entities, relationships, attributes and concepts from multiple sources and build automated pipelines to turn source data into graph representations.
• Apply entity resolution and record linkage to identify duplicate and equivalent entities.
• Define relationship types, entity hierarchies, semantic properties and graph constraints.
• Maintain ontologies, taxonomies, controlled vocabularies and knowledge representation standards.
• Build workflows using RDF, OWL and property graph models, and write graph queries with SPARQL, Cypher or equivalent.
• Integrate data from relational databases, APIs, documents and external repositories, and use NLP and information extraction to find entities and relationships.
• Validate graph completeness, consistency and accuracy, resolve conflicts and optimise storage, indexing and query performance.
• Collaborate with data engineers, ML specialists, architects and business stakeholders, and set up data lineage, provenance tracking, version control and governance.
• Maintain technical documentation and recommend improvements to quality, scalability and interoperability.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, AI, Knowledge Management or a related field.
• Significant experience in knowledge graph construction, graph data engineering, semantic technologies or data integration.
• Strong understanding of graph theory, knowledge representation and entity modelling.
• Ability to manage complex technical projects independently in a fully remote environment.

Required skills

• Graph databases such as Neo4j or Amazon Neptune
• RDF, OWL, RDFS and ontology development
• Python and graph libraries
• SPARQL, Cypher or other graph query languages
• Natural language processing and information extraction
• Data governance, metadata management and data lineage

What we offer

• 100% remote working arrangement
• Competitive compensation based on qualifications and experience
• Work on advanced knowledge graph and semantic data initiatives
• Professional development and continuous learning opportunities
• Collaboration with international and multidisciplinary teams

To apply, send an updated CV through the application process, stating the subject "Application - Senior Knowledge Graph Construction Specialist (UAE Remote)"; candidates should confirm employment arrangements, residency requirements and work authorization before accepting an offer.