Senior Knowledge Graph Engineer for GenAI Pipelines

McKinsey & Company; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 176,000 - 179,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Retirement contributions program

Paid time off

Job summary

McKinsey & Company in Chicago is seeking a data engineer to design and build graph-centric data pipelines and a semantic data layer that powers GenAI applications. You will develop a platform deployed across regions and functions, combining AI capabilities, domain expertise, and human judgment.

The role requires 5+ years in data engineering, experience with AWS, Docker, Python, and knowledge graphs. You will write production-grade code with tests, implement CI/CD, and optimize data pipelines for

Qualifications

• Degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in data engineering or related field.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud-based data engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve entity/relationship models and taxonomies.
• Implement ingestion, normalization, and enrichment mapping sources to graph schemas.
• Write production-grade Python code with tests; maintain CI/CD pipelines; operate AWS- and Docker-based infrastructure.

Skills

Data engineering

Python development

Knowledge graphs

Docker

AWS

Relational databases

Testing automation

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

GenAI interest

Kedro

Strong communication

Education

Degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent experience

5+ years of relevant experience

Tools

GitHub Actions

Kedro

AWS

Job description

McKinsey & Company in Chicago is seeking a data engineer to design and build graph-centric data pipelines and a semantic data layer that powers GenAI applications. You will develop a platform deployed across regions and functions, combining AI capabilities, domain expertise, and human judgment.

The role requires 5+ years in data engineering, experience with AWS, Docker, Python, and knowledge graphs. You will write production-grade code with tests, implement CI/CD, and optimize data pipelines for