Junior Graph Data Engineer
Redhorse Corporation3 months ago
Arlington, VA, USAEntry Level
Base Salary
$85k - $105k/yr
Responsibilities
- Assist with designing and deploying automated pipelines that discover data assets and ingest schemas, tables, columns, and API endpoint metadata.
- Use automated and orchestrated workflows to scale metadata ingestion and maintain the Enterprise Semantic Map.
- Capture technical data origins at ingestion to support automated provenance and lineage chains.
- Align discovered data elements with the Enterprise Core Ontology and specialized domain ontologies.
- Help construct and maintain data lineage chains and governance metadata, including ownership, classifications, handling rules, and access constraints.
- Write and test basic graph queries for metadata retrieval, logical validation, and graph manipulation as technical skills develop.
- Evaluate how integrated data sources and pipelines affect enterprise architecture, search, discovery, downstream consumers, and mission workflows.
- Maintain and optimize the enterprise graph database environment for human analysts, applications, and autonomous AI agents.
- Collaborate with AI engineers to support agent-based querying, research, retrieval, and grounded reasoning workflows.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with at least 1 year of relevant professional experience or equivalent.
- Active TS/SCI clearance.
- Foundational proficiency in programming or scripting for automation, such as Python or Java.
- Foundational proficiency with relational database querying, such as SQL.
- Knowledge of structured and semi-structured formats including JSON, XML, and YAML.
- Understanding of knowledge graph concepts, including nodes, edges, relationships, and metadata schemas.
- Basic understanding of data structures, databases, data pipelines, and ETL processes.
- Ability to understand how individual pipelines connect to a broader enterprise ecosystem.
- Strong attention to detail when aligning metadata terms, formatting endpoints, and maintaining schemas.
- Ability to collaborate, document work clearly, take direction from senior engineers, and explain technical decisions to non-specialists.
- Preferred exposure to graph query languages such as Cypher or SPARQL.
- Preferred familiarity with enterprise graph database platforms, data catalogs, data stewardship systems, metadata standards, and workflow orchestration tools.
- Preferred conceptual understanding, coursework, or project experience with LLM orchestration or agentic workflows.
- Preferred familiarity with government or defense semantic models and standardized enterprise data integration.
Benefits
- Eligible employees may participate in Redhorse’s comprehensive benefits programs.
- Eligible employees may receive performance-based or other incentive compensation where applicable.
About Redhorse Corporation
Redhorse Corporation provides data analytics, AI, and digital transformation consulting to U.S. government agencies, especially in national security, infrastructure, and environmental programs. It delivers technology-agnostic solutions, systems integration, and data engineering to help the Department of Defense and civilian agencies improve decision-making and operations under professional services contracts. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, the company is privately held.