Lead Graph Developer

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Job Title: Lead Graph Developer

Work Location: Chicago, IL 60606 - Hybrid - Can also work from other hub locations of the client.

Contract duration: 6


Job Details:
Must Have Skills:

Amazon Neptune Graph Database, SPARQL Data Engineering / ETL Pipelines GraphRAG

Nice to have skills:

Gen AI integration, Python Backend API Development

Detailed Job Description:

Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Architecture, or a related field.
Graph Databases: Extensive hands-on experience designing and managing production-scale instances of Amazon Neptune.
Graph languages, specifically Gremlin or SPARQL.
Programming: Advanced production coding in Python or JVM environments Java, Scala.
Cloud Infrastructure: Strong proficiency with AWS services, e.g., AWS S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon ECS

Minimum years of experience: 10+ years

Top 3 responsibilities:

Design enterprise ontologies, taxonomies, and graph schemas that reflect complex business structures.

Architect, configure, and scale Amazon Neptune database environments to handle billions of relationships.

Integrate knowledge graphs into GraphRAG pipelines to enhance contextual grounding and minimize AI hallucinations.

Partner with AI teams to implement hybrid search architectures combining graph traversals with vector databases.