2 days ago
Malmö, SwedenSenior
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and continuously improve knowledge graph solutions for connected and high-quality product data.
- Translate ontology models into scalable runtime graph implementations supporting business needs.
- Collaborate with ontology modellers, data engineers, and business experts to optimize reasoning logic, inferencing, and data pipelines.
- Develop, test, and maintain reliable, scalable, production-ready software solutions.
- Design and optimize SPARQL queries and rule-based logic for data retrieval, inferencing, and reasoning.
- Contribute to solution design, prototyping, architectural decisions, documentation, and engineering best practices.
- Partner with the central IKEA Knowledge Graph team and stakeholders to align standards, technical solutions, and ways of working.
- Share specialist expertise and contribute to reusable solutions across teams.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field combined with extensive hands-on software development experience.
- Solid experience with semantic technologies and production knowledge graph development.
- Experience with ontology modelling standards including RDFS, OWL, SHACL, and SKOS.
- Ability to develop and manage RDF-based knowledge graphs using tools such as Metaphactory.
- Experience with graph databases such as RDFox and graph-based data models.
- Ability to design and optimize SPARQL queries and rule-based logic for inferencing and reasoning.
- Knowledge of software engineering principles, architectural thinking, design patterns, and modern engineering approaches.
- Ability to work in agile, cross-functional product teams using DevOps ways of working.
- Clear communication of complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Preferred: experience working across multiple teams or capability areas as a specialist or subject matter expert, and familiarity with IKEA’s brand, culture, values, and ways of working.
Benefits
- The team is based in Malmö, Sweden, with the majority of working time expected in the workplace.
- The role offers cross-team collaboration, specialist knowledge sharing, and opportunities to shape IKEA’s knowledge graph capabilities.
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About IKEA
IKEA designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, home furnishings, and housewares to consumers through large-format stores and e-commerce. Founded in Sweden in 1943 and headquartered in Delft, Netherlands, the brand operates via a global franchise system run by Inter IKEA Systems B.V., and also develops smart-home products and services under Home Smart.