Lead Data & Knowledge Intelligence Architect

UNIVERS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Univers seeks an Architect Lead - Data & Knowledge Intelligence to define target-state architecture bridging IT, OT and IoT, transforming raw data into a unified semantic foundation. Lead semantic design for knowledge graphs, ontologies and AI-ready services enabling RAG and autonomous agents.

You will oversee scalable ingestion, secure access, and cross-region alignment with product, security, and compliance teams while mentoring engineers to raise engineering standards.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software design and development.
• Experience designing service-oriented / microservice architectures.
• Strong knowledge of API architecture REST/gRPC.
• Deep knowledge of knowledge graphs, ontologies, and semantic modeling.
• Hands-on experience with RAG pipelines and vector databases.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical roadmap, architectural standards, and system boundaries for the Data & Knowledge Intelligence layer.
• Architect an operational domain ontology representing assets, sensors, relationships, events, business logic, and governed operational actions.
• Establish standards using Knowledge Graphs and semantic approaches (RDF/OWL/SHACL or Property Graphs).
• Build core capabilities for semantic mapping, MDМ, asset hierarchy management, schema drift handling, and temporal/geospatial entity resolution.
• Architect scalable ingestion, streaming, and CDC pipelines connecting enterprise IT platforms, relational databases, data lakes, and document repositories.
• Lead integration strategies for OT systems (SCADA, MES, Historians, BMS/EMS) and IoT protocols across edge, hybrid, and cloud environments.
• Design architectures resilient to intermittent connectivity, out-of-order time-series telemetry, schema evolution, and edge-to-cloud synchronization.
• Create a secure, permission-aware context and semantic retrieval layer that feeds vectorized, graph-backed operational context into LLMs, RAG, and AI Agent workflows.
• Architect mechanisms for AI Agents to execute write-backs or control actions into physical systems—with policy controls, human-in-the-loop approvals, auditability.
• Ensure end-to-end data lineage, data quality, tenant isolation, and fine-grained access control across all graph and vector knowledge stores.

Skills

Microservice architectures

API architecture

Knowledge Graphs

Ontology modeling

AI & Agentic Systems

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Security architecture

Architectural design

Software development

Tools

GraphDB

Neo4j

Amazon Neptune

RDF/OWL/SHACL

Property Graphs

Vector databases

Job description

Univers seeks an Architect Lead - Data & Knowledge Intelligence to define target-state architecture bridging IT, OT and IoT, transforming raw data into a unified semantic foundation. Lead semantic design for knowledge graphs, ontologies and AI-ready services enabling RAG and autonomous agents.

You will oversee scalable ingestion, secure access, and cross-region alignment with product, security, and compliance teams while mentoring engineers to raise engineering standards.