Senior Software Engineer - Entity Metadata Ingestion and Distribution (EMID - Knowledge Graph) [...]

Energy Jobline ZR; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy job board in London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build components of a semantic reasoning platform. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience in software engineering, with proficiency in Python, Java, and knowledge graph technologies. This role offers the opportunity to work with interdisciplinary teams and contribute to advanced querying and discovery mechanisms.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in software engineering with a strong background in designing distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, and Micro frontend web development.
• Experience with knowledge graph and semantic web technologies like RDF, OWL, and SPARQL.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale core components of the semantic reasoning platform.
• Integrate reasoning capabilities with the enterprise knowledge graph.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to support diverse inference needs.
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of inference infrastructure.
• Adopt the right technologies for scalable inference.

Skills

Software engineering

Python

Java

Micro frontend web development

Knowledge graph technologies

Semantic web technologies

Large-scale data systems

Graph data models

Excellent communication

Tools

Apache Jena

Drools

Pellet

HermiT

Spark

Kafka

Job description

Overview

Energy Jobline is the largest and fastest growing global Energy Job Board and Energy Hub. We have an audience reach of over 7 million energy professionals, 400,000+ monthly advertised global energy and engineering jobs, and work with the leading energy companies worldwide.

We focus on the Oil & Gas, Renewables, Engineering, Power, and Nuclear markets as well as emerging technologies in EV, Battery, and Fusion. We are committed to ensuring that we offer the most exciting career opportunities from around the world for our jobseekers.

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer - Entity Metadata Ingestion and Distribution (EMID - Knowledge Graph)

Location: London

Business Area: Engineering and CTO

Ref #: 10044688

Role and Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale core components of our semantic reasoning platform e nrichment rule engines and inference capabilities
• Integrate reasoning capabilities with the enterprise knowledge graph to enable advanced querying and discovery
• Collaborate with a broad set of stakeholders - domain experts, content providers, and product teams - to support diverse inference needs
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of inference infrastructure in high-throughput production environments
• Evaluate and adopt the right technologies to deliver powerful, scalable inference over enterprise knowledge graphs

What you’ll need to have

• Hands-on experience in software engineering, with a strong background in designing and building distributed systems or data platforms
• Proficiency in Python, Java and Micro frontend web development with demonstrated ability to write robust, production-quality code
• Hands-on experience with knowledge graph and semantic web technologies e.g. RDF, OWL, SHACL, SPARQL
• Knowledge of one or more rule-based and semantic reasoning tools and frameworks (e.g., Apache Jena, Drools, OWL reasoners such as Pellet or HermiT)
• Experience working with large-scale data systems such as Spark, Kafka, or similar
• Strong understanding of graph data models and query (e.g., SPARQL, Cypher)
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across interdisciplinary teams

We’d love to see

• Familiarity with knowledge representation and linked data best practices
• Understanding of data governance and model change management

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