Knowledge Engineer - Retail Concept, IKEA

IKEA

Location:
Sweden, Malmö

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

The job as Knowledge engineer is an software engineering assignment in the context of semantic technologies for Retail Concept ontology domain fitting our part of the reality into the IKEA context.

Job Responsibility:

Be the bridge from the more abstract IKEA ontology model into the runtime data graph by continuously improve and optimize it
Work together with ontology modelers, data engineers, business SME´s regarding making sure that reasoning, rule-engine, inferencing logic, data pipelines optimize the data graph for our consumers
Work together with the central IKEA Knowledge graph team and the other Inter IKEA domains (such as Range and Supply)
Work together in a highly cross-functional agile teams following regular scrum ceremonies
Ensure modularize, scale, integration while meeting resiliency, performance, reusability, along with business and architecture goals
Contribute to adoption of design patterns, efficient usage of cross-cutting technology platforms and solutions to reuse across product teams in the domain to enable efficiency and avoid unnecessary duplications
Contribute to the exploration and further development of new technologies to improve system performance and reliability and position stack evolution in the architecture strategic roadmaps
Create detailed technical documentation for knowledge graph solutions and customizations
Work closely with stakeholders to align technical implementations with business goals
Follow existing engineering practices and implement those

Requirements:

Minimum 7 years of software development experience
Minimum 3 years of hands-on working with semantic technologies
Experience with RDFS, OWL, SHACL, and SKOS for ontology modeling, validation, and controlled vocabularies in semantic systems
Proficient in using RDF modeling tools (we use Metaphactory) for knowledge graph development and management
Experience in customizing modeling tools to meet specific business needs, including adding new functionalities and integrations
Hands-on experience with graph databases (we use RDF Fox)
Understanding of graph-based data models and their application in semantic systems
Strong knowledge regarding querying, reasoning over rule-based data, and optimizing queries for faster processing and efficient data retrieval (we use Datalog)
Deep understanding of SPARQL, the query language for RDF data, with the ability to craft complex queries to extract and manipulate data from RDF-based knowledge graphs
Ensure high performance and scalability of knowledge graph systems through optimization techniques
Experience in agile and domain-driven product development

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
April 29, 2025

Expiration:
May 12, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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Knowledge Engineer - Retail Concept

IKEA

Location:Sweden, Malmö

Category:IT - Software Development

Contract Type:Not provided