Lead Knowledge Architect: Graphs & AI Semantics for Finance

Highbrow LLC

New York (NY)

Hybrid

USD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

Highbrow LLC seeks a Lead Knowledge Architect for the Investment & Financial Services domain in New York. You will design the enterprise ontology and knowledge graphs, aligning with standards and governing cross-department vocabularies.

You will lead semantic modeling, graph database architecture, and AI grounding strategies, mentoring engineers and presenting to senior stakeholders to drive consistent, explainable outcomes.

Qualifications

8+ years in data architecture or similar
Hands-on graph databases and semantic modeling
Strong investment/financial services domain knowledge
Proven experience with RAG/GraphRAG, embeddings and entity resolution
Familiarity with data catalogs and master data management
Excellent facilitation and communication skills

Responsibilities

Design and own the enterprise ontology and knowledge graph for instruments, issuers, portfolios, and reference data.
Lead vocabulary reconciliation across departments and run a governed business glossary.
Architect, optimize, and benchmark graph databases and query layers at financial-data scale.
Optimize AI outputs with Graph RAG, retrieval, entity resolution, and evaluation frameworks.
Build knowledge-extraction pipelines from structured and unstructured sources with lineage and quality controls.
Act as semantic authority: run SME workshops, present to senior stakeholders, mentor engineers.

Skills

Knowledge Graphs

AI Semantics

Investment & Financial Services

Job description

You will lead semantic modeling, graph database architecture, and AI grounding strategies, mentoring engineers and presenting to senior stakeholders to drive consistent, explainable outcomes.

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