Lakehouse Data Modeler & Knowledge Graph Architect

Deeplight; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 270,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and performance奖金

Comprehensive health insurance

Professional development and certificat

Flexible working arrangements

Career advancement opportunities

Job summary

DeepLight AI in Abu Dhabi seeks an expert Data Modeler to lead enterprise data ecosystem modernization. You will design scalable data models, build robust knowledge graphs, and implement semantic layers across Bronze-Silver-Gold lakehouse architectures.

The role requires 7+ years in data modeling or architecture, experience with AWS Glue, Iceberg, and OpenMetadata, and ability to collaborate with data engineers and governance teams. UAE-based consultancy with flexible project scopes.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in data modeling for Lakehouse or data warehouse environments.
• Proficiency in semantic layer design, ontologies, and knowledge graph development.
• Familiarity with metadata management and lineage tools (OpenMetadata preferred).
• 7+ years in data modeling or data architecture roles.
• Experience in semantic technologies, knowledge graphs, and financial services domain is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Data Modeling Design conceptual, logical, and physical data models for Medallion architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold layers).
• Implement dimensional modeling for analytical layers.
• Apply Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCD2) and historical tracking techniques.
• Define and enforce naming conventions, metadata standards, and maintain model documentation.
• Semantic Layer & Ontologies Design and implement a semantic layer to enable business-friendly data access and self-service analytics.
• Work with advanced AI-tooling for semantic layer deployment and integration.
• Develop and maintain ontologies and taxonomies to standardize business concepts across domains.
• Ensure semantic consistency across data products and reporting layers.
• Knowledge Graph Development Build and maintain knowledge graphs to represent relationships between entities and enable advanced data discovery.
• Integrate knowledge graph capabilities with Lakehouse metadata and lineage tools (e.g., OpenMetadata).
• Collaborate with architects and platform engineers to ensure graph scalability and performance.
• Collaboration & Governance Work closely with Data Architects to align models with Lakehouse design principles.
• Partner with Data Engineers to ensure models are correctly implemented in Glue and Iceberg tables.
• Collaborate with Data Quality teams to embed validation rules and ensure compliance.
• Optimisation & Standards Ensure models support schema evolution, partitioning strategies, and performance optimisation.
• Create reusable modeling templates and best practices for Data Factory squads.

Skills

Data modeling

Lakehouse

Semantic layer

Knowledge graphs

Ontologies

OpenMetadata

AWS Glue

Apache Iceberg

Medallion architecture

Metadata management

Lineage tools

Jira

Agile

Tools

AWS Glue

Apache Iceberg

OpenMetadata

ERwin

PowerDesigner

Zaimler

AtScale

RDF

OWL

Neo4j

Job description

DeepLight AI in Abu Dhabi seeks an expert Data Modeler to lead enterprise data ecosystem modernization. You will design scalable data models, build robust knowledge graphs, and implement semantic layers across Bronze-Silver-Gold lakehouse architectures.

The role requires 7+ years in data modeling or architecture, experience with AWS Glue, Iceberg, and OpenMetadata, and ability to collaborate with data engineers and governance teams. UAE-based consultancy with flexible project scopes.