Senior Knowledge Graph, Ontology & Content Platform Architect

Bring your expertise in knowledge graphs, ontology design, and enterprise content architecture to a high-impact modernization initiative. This remote opportunity offers the chance to shape semantic data strategies, improve content lifecycle management, and help build AI-ready information ecosystems that support smarter digital experiences.
Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and analysis efforts to assess current-state content platforms, semantic architectures, and knowledge graph capabilities.
• Define target-state architectures, technical roadmaps, and implementation recommendations for modernization initiatives.
• Design and implement enterprise knowledge graph and ontology solutions that support complex business domains.
• Develop semantic models, metadata strategies, taxonomies, and knowledge representation standards.
• Translate business requirements into scalable semantic architectures, implementation plans, and technical backlog items.
• Guide modernization work involving enterprise content lifecycle management, source-to-schema transformation, and API-driven content delivery.
• Support migration efforts for knowledge graph platforms, including semantic model and custom application transitions to modern SaaS environments.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, ontology teams, architects, and engineering groups to ensure successful solution delivery.
• Advise on RDF-based transformation pipelines, linked data approaches, and cloud-native semantic services.
• Contribute to monitoring, operational readiness, and production support considerations across integrated platforms.

Skills

• 8+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, knowledge engineering, semantic technologies, information architecture, or enterprise content platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience with ontology modeling, knowledge graph architecture, and semantic data design.
• Working knowledge of RDF, OWL, SKOS, SPARQL, SHACL, and JSON-LD.
• Experience with linked data principles and enterprise semantic integration patterns.
• Proven ability to lead discovery sessions, technical assessments, and architecture discussions.
• Ability to translate complex business concepts into reusable conceptual and logical models.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Consultative mindset with the ability to guide both technical and non-technical teams.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Adobe Experience Manager or other enterprise content management platforms.
• Knowledge of WEMI content lifecycle modeling.
• Experience migrating knowledge graph platforms to SaaS environments.
• Familiarity with Top Braid or similar graph technologies such as Neo4j, GraphDB, Stardog, or Amazon Neptune.
• Experience building retrieval-augmented generation and semantic search solutions.
• Exposure to Google Cloud Platform, Big Query, and cloud-native data services.
• Experience with Apigee API Management.
• Background supporting regulated industries such as healthcare, life sciences, or financial services.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, CI/CD, and production readiness practices.

Horizontal is committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and welcoming environment where different perspectives are valued and respected. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply and contribute to a culture built on collaboration, belonging, and opportunity.

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