About:

• Contract: 6+ months

• Location: Louisville, TN

Qualifications:

• Experience Required: 8-10

• 7+ years as Semantic Software Engineer

• Data Virtualization - 7+ years

• Experienced Semantic Software Engineer to design and develop software solutions that leverage semantic technologies, ontologies, and structured knowledge models.

• The role focuses on enabling semantic interoperability, knowledge-driven applications, and standards-based data exchange across enterprise platforms.

• Practical experience implementing semantic data virtualization (e.g. R2RML mappings) and integrating knowledge graphs with analytics pipelines.

• Proficiency with semantic stores reasoners and building scalable SPARQL GraphQL or API based semantic services.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design and develop semantic-enabled software components and services

• Implement solutions that leverage ontologies, knowledge models, and semantic metadata

• Integrate semantic layers with APIs, backend services, and data platforms

• Develop and maintain semantic data processing and validation logic

• Collaborate with ontologists, architects, and domain experts to translate semantic models into cutable solutions

• Support semantic interoperability across systems and platforms

• Ensure semantic consistency across data ingestion, transformation, and consumption layers

• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and architecture discussions

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to semantic data interpretation and integration

• Follow software engineering best practices for coding, testing, and documentation

• Strong understanding of software development principles and SDLC

• Hands-on experience working with structured data models and metadata-driven systems

• Experience integrating semantic models with backend services or APIs

• Familiarity with ontology-driven or standards-based data representations

• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and debugging skills

• Ability to collaborate with both technical and domain stakeholders

• Experience working in agile development projects and sprint deliver

Must Have:

• Minimum 7–10 years of experience as a Semantic Software Engineer

• Practical, hands-on experience implementing semantic data virtualization, including R2RML mappings

• Experience integrating knowledge graphs with analytics pipelines

• Proficiency with semantic stores, reasoners, and building scalable SPARQL, GraphQL, or API-based semantic services

• Experience integrating semantic models with backend services or APIs within metadata-driven or ontology-driven systems