IT Semantic Engineer - RDT Data Platforms

Roche; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 170,000 - 316,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Training budget

Recharge Fridays

Charity leave

Private healthcare

Job summary

Roche is seeking an IT Semantic Engineer to lead the semantic hub that powers AI-enabled workflows. You will design and maintain enterprise knowledge graphs, expose data via APIs, and ensure high-quality AI grounding and reliable data access.

The role focuses on building scalable pipelines, deploying in Kubernetes with GitOps, and driving data standards across the organization to reduce AI hallucinations.

Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise-scale data engineering projects and knowledge graphs.
• Experience deploying infrastructure in Kubernetes using GitOps automation.
• Experience with validated platforms (GxP) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and graph architectures.
• Develop ontologies and unified data endpoints for enterprise contexts.
• Collaborate with data owners and AI teams to translate business needs into schemas.

Skills

Python coding

Knowledge graphs

GraphDB

Kubernetes

SQL/NoSQL

API design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

GitOps tooling

ArgoCD

Helm

Rancher

Vault

Job description

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

IT Semantic Engineer - RDT Data Platforms

Description Of The Area

The IT Semantic Engineer is responsible for leading, designing, developing, and maintaining our enterprise-level semantic hub. This platform serves as the foundational data layer bridging the gap between vast enterprise knowledge and advanced AI systems.

In this role, you will integrate diverse data and metadata sources into a unified knowledge graph, design common ontologies to expose disparate datasets uniformly, build robust APIs and integration protocols for AI consumption. The ultimate goal is to provide high-precision enterprise context to AI assistants and intelligent agents—grounding their responses, enabling reliable workflow execution, and eliminating AI hallucinations.

The Opportunity:

• Scope / Content Leadership: Leads the design, build, and maintenance of scalable data pipelines and graph architectures. Independently drives data integration projects from ingestion to semantic transformation, establishing unified enterprise ontologies
• Accountability / Problem Solving: Solves complex data modeling, ingestion, and querying challenges. Evaluates, benchmarks, and optimizes the performance of data access tools to ensure AI systems fetch enterprise context efficiently, accurately, and with minimal latency
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborates directly with data owners, domain experts, and AI application teams to thoroughly understand business requirements. Translates complex business use cases into robust schemas and standardized data endpoints
• Impact / Strategy: Drives the technical evolution of the hub’s delivery architecture. Implements robust strategies for distributed data indexing, orchestration, and access, while embedding FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) across all workflows
• Complexity / Product Size: Manages a highly interconnected, large-scale enterprise knowledge system. Integrates complex, multi-source metadata systems into a uniform layer, navigating advanced infrastructure and enterprise gateway patterns to maintain seamless, automated deployments

Who you are:

Education / Experience

• Demonstrated experience handling enterprise-scale data engineering projects and managing complex semantic web systems and knowledge graphs
• Experience configuring, deploying, and maintaining infrastructure components in a Kubernetes environment using GitOps automation
• Experience working with validated or qualified platforms (GxP) is a plus

Technical Skills

• Experience: Senior-level experience in data engineering, software engineering, or semantic web engineering with strong Python coding skills, a proven track record of autonomous delivery, and a focus on knowledge graphs or AI system enablement
• Semantic & Graph Technologies: Hands-on experience with Graph databases (Ontotext GraphDB preferred, Neo4j) and core semantic web standards (RDF, OWL, SPARQL and ontology design)
• APIs & AI Protocols: Deep understanding of GraphQL API design and hands-on experience with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to expose data tools to LLMs
• DevOps & Infrastructure: Experience configuring, deploying, and managing containerized workloads within enterprise Kubernetes (Rancher/RKE2) environments
• GitOps & CI/CD: Expert proficiency in Git-based workflows using trunk-based development, automated deployments via ArgoCD, and application packaging with Helm charts
• Security & Networking: Solid practical understanding of secrets management using HashiCorp Vault (and Vault Secrets Operator), Linux networking, TLS configurations, and navigating corporate proxy/gateway patterns
• Data Strategy: Practical familiarity with FAIR principles and their implementation across enterprise data architectures
• Workflow Orchestration: Practical experience with distributed workflow management platforms (e.g. Temporal) is a plus
• Search & Indexing: Hands-on experience deploying, configuring, and managing OpenSearch for enterprise data retrieval and search capabilities is a plus

Additional Qualifications

• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the proven ability to engage effectively with both technical audiences (like data scientists) and non-technical business stakeholders

What you get:

• Salary range 14 175-26 325 PLN gross based on the employment contract
• Annual bonus payment based on your performance
• Dedicated training budget (training, certifications, conferences, diversified career paths etc.)
• Recharge Fridays (2 Fridays off per quarter available)
• Take time Program (up to 3 months of leave to use for any purpose)
• Vacation subsidy available
• Flex Location (possibility to perform our work from different places in the world for a certain period of time)
• Take Time for Charity (additional paid leave of maximum 2 weeks to engage in the charity action of your choice)
• Private healthcare (LuxMed packages), group life insurance (UNUM) and Multisport
• Stock share purchase additions
• Yearly sales of company laptops and cars and many more!

Compensation & Benefits

The expected salary range for this position, based on the primary location of Warsaw Grafit is 170,100.00 PLN - 315,900.00 PLN. Final compensation will be determined by a number of factors, including your skills, experience, qualifications, and location. In addition to base pay, this role may be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus with a target of 15% subject to both individual and company performance.

This position also offers an attractive benefits package.

Learn more about how we reward our employees at Roche.

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.