Graph Data Engineer: Semantic Knowledge Graph Lead

Redhorse Corporation; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Redhorse Corporation seeks a Graph Data Engineer to design, build, and scale the Enterprise Semantic Map, an ontology-grounded metadata graph. You will architect programmatic data and API integrations, configure graph structures, and drive agentic workflows that discover and catalog data sources across the enterprise.

This role requires hands-on engineering and systems thinking across data pipelines and governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 5+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Active TS SCI Clearance.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and graph databases.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automated pipelines to discover data assets and ingest metadata.
• Architect graph structures and enable provenance and lineage workflows.
• Align data elements to enterprise ontologies and domain models.
• Develop graph queries for retrieval, validation, and manipulation.
• Mentor junior engineers and document design decisions.

Skills

Python

SQL

JSON/XML/YAML

Graph Databases

Cypher

SPARQL

Knowledge Graph

Data Pipelines

ETL Processes

API & Systems Integration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

Redhorse Corporation seeks a Graph Data Engineer to design, build, and scale the Enterprise Semantic Map, an ontology-grounded metadata graph. You will architect programmatic data and API integrations, configure graph structures, and drive agentic workflows that discover and catalog data sources across the enterprise.

This role requires hands-on engineering and systems thinking across data pipelines and governance.