Enterprise Knowledge Graph Engineer (FinServ)

Discovered MENA; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Discovered MENA is seeking a Knowledge Engineer in Abu Dhabi to design, build and scale an enterprise knowledge graph for a leading financial services client. This hands-on role focuses on semantically rich data models, ontology development and governance in a regulated banking environment.

You will collaborate with data owners, SMEs and AI teams, deliver production graphs, support GraphRAG and LLM grounding, and align with industry standards such as RDF/OWL, SHACL, and FIBO.

Qualifications

• Proven background in financial services or banking.
• Track record delivering enterprise-grade knowledge graphs.
• Strong ontology and data modelling skills with RDF/OWL or labelled property graphs.
• Experience with enterprise graph platforms (Neo4j, Stardog, TigerGraph, Neptune, GraphDB).
• Proficiency in SPARQL and/or Cypher/Gremlin.
• Python programming and data pipelines in cloud environments (Azure, AWS or GCP).

Responsibilities

• Design and build enterprise-scale knowledge graphs from conceptual model through to production deployment.
• Develop ontologies, taxonomies and semantic data models aligned to financial services domains.
• Collaborate with business SMEs, data owners and architects to capture domain knowledge and translate it into formal, reusable models.
• Integrate data from multiple source systems into the graph, working with data engineering teams on ingestion, entity resolution and data quality.
• Define and apply standards for metadata, lineage, governance and ontology change management.
• Build and optimise graph queries and APIs to support business use cases.
• Support the use of the knowledge graph in AI initiatives, including GraphRAG, semantic search and LLM grounding.
• Align the graph with industry standards and reference models such as FIBO where appropriate.
• Contribute to architecture roadmap, tooling selection and best practice for knowledge management.
• Document designs, produce training material and upskill internal teams.

Skills

Knowledge engineering

Semantic data modelling

Stakeholder management

Communication

Regulatory understanding

Education

Bachelor's in CS/IS/Data Science

Tools

Neo4j

Stardog

TigerGraph

Amazon Neptune

GraphDB

Job description

Discovered MENA is seeking a Knowledge Engineer in Abu Dhabi to design, build and scale an enterprise knowledge graph for a leading financial services client. This hands-on role focuses on semantically rich data models, ontology development and governance in a regulated banking environment.

You will collaborate with data owners, SMEs and AI teams, deliver production graphs, support GraphRAG and LLM grounding, and align with industry standards such as RDF/OWL, SHACL, and FIBO.