Director, Graph And Entity Infrastructure

Fitch Solutions is seeking a Director, Knowledge Graph based in our London office.

Fitch Solutions is a leading provider of insights, data and analytics. It informs investment strategies, strengthens risk management capabilities and helps identify strategic opportunities. Its analysts, lawyers, journalists and economists offer in-depth views on credit markets/risk and individual credits, ESG, developed and emerging markets, and industry sectors. Fitch Solutions is part of Fitch Group, a global leader in financial information services with operations in over 30 countries.

Fitch Group is owned by Hearst.

By becoming a part of the Fitch Solutions team, you will join a group of colleagues delivering critical data, insightful research, and comprehensive analytics that empower clients to make informed decisions. You'll work in a dynamic environment where innovation is encouraged, and collaboration is key to developing solutions that address the evolving needs of global markets. With a portfolio of best-in-class, award winning brands, we offer you the opportunity to advance your career while contributing to a company known for its expertise and commitment to excellence.

The Data Science Engine is a new capability under the Head of Analytics. Its specialists embed in priority product initiatives while building methods and tools that other teams and products can reuse. We are developing a unified analytics framework that describes what we analyze, how our capabilities relate, and which decisions they support. Our longer-term ambition is to help clients understand how risk moves through the world by connecting data, research and analytical methods across companies, instruments, industries and geographies.

This role has the same dual remit: help selected initiatives deliver working knowledge graph applications, and establish the models, components and practices that future initiatives can adopt. You will work with data scientists, product teams, analysts, AI teams and the Core groups responsible for shared data and platforms. You will also help align our work with broader Fitch initiatives that connect research and intelligence across businesses.

You will lead the design and initial implementation of connected data and knowledge graph capabilities that make analytics easier to discover, combine and apply. Starting with a real product problem, you will work with subject experts to model the relevant concepts and relationships, write the code and queries, and put a working solution in users’ hands. You will partner with engineering teams to make useful solutions durable and scalable.

The model should be clear enough to extend, and it should evolve as real use cases reveal what is needed.

• Partner with research and content teams on tagging and enrichment that connects documents, topics, entities, events and analytical capabilities. Help make authored research easier to discover and reuse while preserving its source and context.
• Contribute the semantic and graph modeling expertise needed for new product initiatives, which aim to connect intelligence across Fitch Ratings, BMI, Sustainable Fitch and Credit Sights. Align definitions and interfaces with the wider program as its scope develops.
• Work with AI teams to evaluate where connected context improves retrieval, grounded answers or other product workflows. Design for traceable sources and assess answer quality against real questions.

• Translate the unified analytics framework into a practical semantic model. Define analytical domains, subjects, lenses, capabilities, methods, inputs, outputs and the relationships among them so teams can understand and reuse work…