Senior Data Consultant - Graph & Semantics

Joining Capco means joining an organization that is committed to an inclusive working environment where you’re encouraged to #BeYourselfAtWork. We celebrate individuality and recognize that diversity and inclusion, in all forms, is critical to success. It’s important to us that we recruit and develop as diverse a range of talent as we can and we believe that everyone brings something different to the table – so we’d love to know what makes you different. Such differences may mean we need to make changes to our process to allow you the best possible platform to succeed, and we are happy to cater to any reasonable adjustments you may require.

About Capco

Capco is a global technology and business consultancy, focused on the financial services sector. We are passionate about helping our clients succeed in an ever-changing industry. 

We are:

• Experts in banking and payments, capital markets and wealth and asset management
• Deep knowledge in financial services offering, including e.g. Finance, Risk and Compliance, Financial Crime, Core Banking, etc.
• Committed to growing our business and hiring the best talent to help us get there
• Focus on maintaining our nimble, agile and entrepreneurial culture

Role Description

• 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
• 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
• 3+ 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
• Has worked on multiple use cases for these technologies, and is able to provide guidance on prudent user interface design which exploits the power of graph and mitigates the challenges of visualizing graph data
• Has working knowledge of several Graph/Triple Stores and related technologies, e.g. AnzoGraph, PoolParty, Stardog, TigerGraph, Ontotext GraphDB, Grakn, MarkLogic, Metaphactory
• Has managed graph projects with a sizeable amount of data
• Understanding of ETL techniques and associated software
• 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
• Must be able/willing to travel Monday-Thursday weekly

Other desired skills:

• Good awareness of 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
• Familiarity with mapping techniques, e.g. R2RML, for transforming relational/tabular datasets into triples
• Agile software development frameworks, e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming
• Understanding of data management and governance toolsets and methodologies including data lineage and traceability concepts
• Programming skills: Python, Java, Javascript etc

Why Capco?

A career at Capco is a chance to help reshape the competitive landscape in financial services.  We launch new banks, transform existing ones, and help our clients navigate complex change.  As consultants, we work on the front-end business design all the way through to technology implementation.

We are the largest Financial Services focused consultancy in the world, serving everyone from global banks to emerging FinTechs, from strategy through digital transformation, design, business consulting, data and analytics, cyber, cloud, technology architecture, and engineering.

Capco is a young and growing firm. We maintain an entrepreneurial spirit and growth mindset, and have minimal bureaucracy. We have no internal silos that get in the way of your career opportunities or  ability to focus on our clients and make a difference to the business.  We offer the opportunity for everyone to learn rapidly, take on tough challenges, and get promoted quickly. We take pride in our creative, collaborative, diverse, and inclusive culture, where everyone can #BYAW.

We offer highly competitive benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement, and a work culture focused on innovation and creation of lasting value for our clients and employees. 

Ready to take the Next Step 

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.  This is an opportunity to make a difference and contribute to a highly successful company with a significant growth trajectory.