Knowledge Graph Engineer - Investment Data Ontology

Job description

Project Contractor Summary Contract role to design and deliver a proof-of-concept knowledge graph modeling investment fund data for one of the world's largest asset managers. You will encode business rules, regulatory constraints, and identifier relationships as machine-readable ontologies - directly eliminating manual fund data processes and enabling automated validation across thousands of funds in 6 global markets. Defined POC scope, executive sponsorship, and weekly technical guidance from two of the most recognized knowledge graph practitioners in financial services. What You'll Deliver (POC Scope) An investment fund ontology (OWL 2 / RDF / Linked Data) modeling the product hierarchy: Fund > ShareClass > Listing > Security, with 73+ identifier types (ISIN, SEDOL, CUSIP, LEI, Bloomberg, and more) governed across US, UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada, and Mexico SHACL validation shapes encoding business rules as executable constraints - e.g., "A US-domiciled ETF listing must have a valid ISIN" - that flag violations at fund launch and throughout the fund lifecycle SKOS concept schemes harmonizing vocabulary across 8+ internal systems, providing a semantic bridge between source-of-record platforms Data integration pipelines mapping relational data into RDF triples (Turtle/N-Quads) using R2RML, rdflib, or equivalent mapping tooling API layer enabling downstream applications to consume graph data programmatically Automated governance reports surfacing data quality gaps, missing identifiers, and cross-system inconsistencies Required Skills 5+ years hands-on experience building and deploying RDF/OWL ontologies in production (not solely academic - you have shipped something real) SHACL for constraint validation, data quality enforcement, and shape-based governance SPARQL 1.1 - fluent in complex queries, property paths, and federated queries At least one enterprise triple store / graph platform: TopBraid, GraphDB (Ontotext), Stardog, RDFox, Amazon Neptune (RDF mode), or equivalent Python or Java for data transformation, pipeline orchestration, and integration work Familiarity with financial or securities identifiers (ISIN, SEDOL, CUSIP, LEI, or similar instrument identification schemes) - you don't need to be a fund accountant, but you need to understand what an identifier is and why it matters Working knowledge of data governance - you understand why constraints…