Principal Semantic Data & AI Architect

Capco; New York (NY); On-site; USD 146,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision.

Maternity and paternity leave and care

Tuition reimbursement and wellness

HSA, FSA and commuter benefits

Job summary

Capco is seeking a hands-on Principal Consultant to design and build semantic data solutions that enable AI, ML, analytics, and business applications. You will lead across knowledge-graph engineering, AI solution development, data modeling, and data-pipeline delivery.

You will work as a semantic architect, AI engineer, data engineer, technical lead, or client advisor, translating business requirements into practical solutions and contributing to architecture, code, data pipelines, testing, and

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, AI, analytics, or enterprise architecture.
• At least four years of hands-on experience with knowledge graphs, semantic technologies, graph databases, or semantic-data integration.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or a comparable enterprise language.
• Experience developing data pipelines, APIs, transformations, automated tests, and production integrations.
• Working knowledge of NLP, ML, embeddings, vector search, semantic search, RAG, GraphRAG, or LLM-based applications.
• Experience connecting structured data with unstructured content such as policies, contracts, research, or documents.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise knowledge graphs, semantic layers, ontologies, taxonomies, and graph-based data products.
• Translate business concepts into machine-readable knowledge models and governed data representations.
• Build semantic data pipelines that acquire, transform, map, validate, enrich, and load data from multiple sources.
• Integrate knowledge graphs with AI/ML solutions, including retrieval-augmented generation and semantic search.
• Develop Python- or Java-based services, data transformations, APIs, and integration components.
• Lead technical workshops, architecture decisions, prototypes, and production implementations.
• Mentor team members and create reusable patterns and reference architectures for Capco’s Graph, Semantics & AI practice.

Skills

Knowledge graphs

Semantic technologies

Graph databases

RDF / SPARQL / OWL

Python

Java

Data pipelines

NLP / ML basics

Cloud platforms

Architecture & leadership

Tools

Stardog

Neo4j

GraphDB

Amazon Neptune

Anzo

MarkLogic

TigerGraph

Apache Jena

TypeDB

Job description

Capco is seeking a hands-on Principal Consultant to design and build semantic data solutions that enable AI, ML, analytics, and business applications. You will lead across knowledge-graph engineering, AI solution development, data modeling, and data-pipeline delivery.

You will work as a semantic architect, AI engineer, data engineer, technical lead, or client advisor, translating business requirements into practical solutions and contributing to architecture, code, data pipelines, testing, and