Lead Knowledge Architect: Graphs & AI Semantics for Finance

Headfield Solutions Pvt Ltd.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Headfield Solutions Pvt Ltd. in New York is seeking a Lead Knowledge Architect to unify disparate vocabularies across front office, risk, finance, operations and compliance using ontologies and knowledge graphs. You will design a semantic foundation, enable explainable retrieval, and tune AI systems for consistency and trust.

The role requires strong data-architecture experience, hands-on graph tech, and deep investment-domain fluency to align portfolio managers, risk officers and controllers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data architecture with 4+ years on production knowledge graphs.
• Hands-on graph modeling: property-graph and RDF/OWL, SHACL, SPARQL, Cypher, Gremlin.
• Strong investment/financial domain knowledge across asset classes and lifecycles.
• Proven experience improving LLM output via semantic grounding (RAG/GraphRAG).
• Experience with data catalogs (Collibra, Alation, Atlan) and MDM; Python and SQL.

Skills

Data architecture

Graph databases

Investment domain knowledge

Communication

Tools

SHACL

SPARQL

Cypher

Gremlin

Collibra

Alation

Atlan

Python

SQL

Spark

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Headfield Solutions Pvt Ltd. in New York is seeking a Lead Knowledge Architect to unify disparate vocabularies across front office, risk, finance, operations and compliance using ontologies and knowledge graphs. You will design a semantic foundation, enable explainable retrieval, and tune AI systems for consistency and trust.

The role requires strong data-architecture experience, hands-on graph tech, and deep investment-domain fluency to align portfolio managers, risk officers and controllers.