Principal Data Consultant - Graph & Semantics.

Capco is a global technology and business consultancy with a focus on the financial services sector. We are passionate about helping our clients succeed in an ever-changing industry, combining innovative thinking with unique expert know-how. The solutions we offer our customers every day are as diverse as our employees.

We are/have:

• Experts across the Capital Markets, Insurance, Payments, Retail Banking and Wealth & Asset Management domains.
• Deep knowledge in various financial services offerings including Finance, Risk and Compliance, Financial Crime, Core Banking etc.
• Committed to growing our business and hiring the best talent to help us get there.
• Focused on maintaining our nimble, agile and entrepreneurial culture.

Financial services firms have significant challenges and great opportunities to manage and exploit data – their own and new big data sets. Their ability to compete, to comply, and to transform is tied to their ability to unlock hidden links between data scattered around various data silos and extract value from it. Next generation tools in the industry will include AI systems powered by knowledge graphs – able to handle complexity and ensure that the answers they provide have context and can be explained.

Graph and Semantic Engineering are emerging enterprise data technologies that leverage ontologies and related advanced analytics – including artificial intelligence – to build and represent knowledge in expressive and novel ways. Capco’s clients are beginning to exploit this paradigm shift – a shift in how highly variable structured and unstructured information is linked – to building knowledge that can be meaningfully understood by people and machines.

Primary responsibility in this role is to help clients succeed by understanding, exploiting, designing, and implementing solutions involving graph and semantic technologies – including advanced data management and analytics, and other innovative new ways. Other responsibilities include growing the Data Practice domain in scale and capability – applying an entrepreneurial mindset to build upon Capco established capabilities and relationships – maintaining thought leadership in how graph is applied today, and where future strategies could lead.

This will involve:

• Shaping and executing the hiring strategy and developing the best of in-house talent.
• Leading the development and proposition of innovative solutions as Capco expands its engagement with clients interested in exploring the capabilities and advantages of Semantic Graph Technologies.
• In the fast-changing landscape of potential partners in graph technology, an ongoing curiosity and developing connections with key partners, will enable valuable support for clients.

Skills & Expertise

• Graph and Semantic Senior Data Consultants will require multi-disciplinary capabilities required to explain, design, and deliver powerful knowledge graph models – a good balance of business and technical understanding.
• 5+ years of experience with Knowledge Representation and Semantic Technologies, e.g. OWL, RDF, SWRL, SPARQL, JSON-LD, Turtle, N-Quads, including semantic modelling and data.
• Proficiency in at least one of the following languages: Python, Java, C-based languages.
• Has working knowledge of several Graph/Triple Stores and related technologies, e.g. Stardog, Anzo, GraphDB, Apache Jena, TigerGraph, TypeDB, MarkLogic, Metaphactory, Neo4j, Protégé, Poolparty.
• Has worked on multiple use cases for these technologies, and is able to transform client use cases into graph-based solutions efficiently.
• Experience delivering knowledge graph projects including data acquisition, modelling, pipelines and visualisation.
• Has managed technology projects with a sizeable amount of data.
• Excellent Communication skills – be an effective, passionate, trusted advocate and communicator for Graph and Semantic Technologies.
• Experience in applying semantic technologies in an industry setting, or practical experience as part of an academic, Library Science or Information/Knowledge Management career.

Other desired skills

• Experience in the financial services domain is a great advantage.
• Ability to utilize NLP, machine learning and semantic text mining to translate data into machine understandable representations to support advanced analytics, classification, inference processing and knowledge extraction.
• Agile software development frameworks, e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming.
• Understanding of data management and governance toolsets and methodologies.

Why Join Capco?

You will work on engaging projects with some of the largest banks in the world, on projects that will transform the financial services industry. We offer:

• A work culture focused on innovation and creating lasting value for our clients and employees.
• Ongoing learning opportunities to help you acquire new skills or deepen existing expertise.
• A flat, non-hierarchical structure that will enable you to work with senior partners and directly with clients.
• A diverse, inclusive, meritocratic culture.