At S&P Global, we Accelerate Progress by providing essential intelligence powered by the combination of connected technologies, the right data, and industry expertise. Our dynamic team consists of more than 15,000 analysts, data scientists, industry experts, and software developers serving 100% of the Fortune Global 500.
In the Engineering Solutions Division we think differently, combining the knowledge and resources of an established company with the unapologetic boldness of a startup. We build software solutions fueled by trusted data that connect to engineering workflows in revolutionary ways, illuminating answers that previously were impossible to find and empowering our clients to envision the future, so they can identify the best course of action in the present. We're disrupting the current digital transformation landscape with state-of-the-art AI developed by a passionate team with a bias to action. Are you ready to join us in building the software that will power the most impactful companies in the world?
Position Summary
"Digital transformation" has devolved into an overused corporate buzzword. What most enterprises still consider "digital transformation" is ultimately a 20th century solution to a 21st century problem. We're a skunkworks engineering startup embedded in S&P Global Engineering Solutions building 21st century solutions that are at the vanguard of the AI/ML and knowledge graph fields. The potential for these solutions and the platform that comes next are endless. We're looking for an experienced, curious, & creative software architect to join us in building the future.
As a semantic architect, you bring technical breadth, soft skills, and a wealth of hard-won experience to the table. You know the architecture of the world-wide web and the standards and technologies that followed to move us beyond a web of documents and towards a web of data. You're excited to bring the vision of the semantic web and linked data to market. You have a good sense of when to solve problems by "standing on the shoulders of giants" and when invention and original thinking is necessary. Most importantly, you've got the communication and mentorship skills to guide and support development teams to build incredible things.
In this role, you'll join a team of passionate architects and report to the chief architect while working closely with both developers and business partners. In this role, you can expect to learn and grow daily. This opening is a fully remote position (although preference is given to candidates in the Denver area).
Job Responsibilities

• Provide thought leadership in technology direction, technical services, vendor partnership, and industry standards adoption.
• Serve as mentor and coach to technical delivery staff.
• Get hands-on building POCs and/or reference implementations as required to demonstrate new technologies and patterns to development teams.
• Promote knowledge sharing across product-development teams.
• Maintain an excellent understanding of the business long term goals and strategy and ensures that designs are aligned with these.
• Recommend best practices for the entire solution.
• Scrutinize project constraints to analyze alternatives, mitigate risks, and conduct process re-engineering as necessary.
• Act as a liaison between the technical and sales teams to convert requirements into outcomes.

Required Skills/Experience

• Eight (8) or more years of increasing responsibility in technical roles, with 3 or more years of experience working with the ideas and technologies surrounding the semantic web (e.g. RDF, SPARQL, JSON-LD, OWL, SWRL, SHACL, etc.) and awareness of the breadth of use cases for theses technologies
• Experience with Graph/Triple Stores and related technologies (e.g. PoolParty, Stardog, TigerGraph, Ontotext GraphDB, Grakn, MarkLogic, Metaphactory, Neo4j.)
• Experience with resource-oriented architecture and particular understanding of the underlying concepts of the REST architectural style and the architecture of the WWW.
• Knowledge of hypermedia standards such as HAL or Hydra.
• Sufficient breadth to work with variety of programing languages. Experience with the core project languages of C#, Java and Python is highly desired.
• Experience of "mature" REST (Level 3 on the Richardson Maturity Model).
• Experience with communicating insights and presenting concepts to diverse audiences.

Other Desired/Optional Skills

• Experience in applying semantic technologies in an industry setting, or practical experience as part of an academic, Library Science or Information/Knowledge Management career
• Working Knowledge of open-source or commercial ontology engineering editors (e.g. Protege, Mobi, TopQuadrant products, PoolParty)
• 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
• Experience with complex distributed architecture patterns and knowledge of best (and worst) practices.
• Existing experience with container runtimes and container management systems such as Kubernetes.
• Real-World experience architecting and developing SaaS/PaaS applications.
• Collaborative approaches to problem solving including pair and mob programming.
• Cloud experience with deploying and integrating cloud native applications with AWS.

What We Offer

• Competitive base salary and bonus plans.
• A comprehensive, benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision and life insurance plans, paid time off, a generous 401k match with no vesting period, parental leave and 3 volunteering days each year. For more information on benefits, please access the benefits page on our careers site: https://spgbenefits.com/.
• For work locations in the state of Colorado, the anticipated minimum base salary for this role would be $146,000 - $280,000. Compensation will be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the applicant.

Equal Opportunity Employer:
S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.
If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: [email protected] and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.
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