SENIOR GRAPH DATABASE DEVELOPER

Work Location: Chicago, IL, 60606 (Hybrid)
Duration: 6+ Months Contract
Experience Level: 10+ Years
Visa: Independent Only

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Graph Database Developer with extensive experience in Amazon Neptune, graph query languages, and data engineering to design and scale enterprise knowledge graphs.

Responsibilities

• Design enterprise ontologies, taxonomies, and graph schemas that reflect complex business structures.
• Architect, configure, and scale Amazon Neptune database environments to handle billions of relationships.
• Integrate knowledge graphs into GraphRAG pipelines to enhance contextual grounding and minimize AI hallucinations.
• Partner with AI teams to implement hybrid search architectures combining graph traversals with vector databases.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Architecture, or a related field.
• Extensive hands-on experience designing and managing production-scale instances of Amazon Neptune.
• Proficiency in graph query languages, specifically Gremlin or SPARQL.
• Advanced production coding in Python or JVM environments (Java, Scala).
• Strong proficiency with AWS Services (e.g., AWS S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon ECS).
• Experience with data engineering and ETL pipelines.

Skills

• Must Have: Amazon Neptune, SPARQL, Data Engineering / ETL Pipelines, GraphRAG
• Nice to Have: Gen AI integration, Python, Backend API Development