# Specialist, Semantic Data Engineer

Job Description Our company is seeking a semantic data engineer to build, and scale enterprise-grade knowledge graph solutions that power advanced analytics and decision-making in pharmaceutical research. This role will implement the design of semantic data layers that integrate heterogeneous scientific datasets, enabling end-to-end traceability, cross-domain insights, and AI/ML-driven discovery. The ideal candidate will combine deep expertise in knowledge graphs, ontology engineering, and data engineering, with strong domain awareness in pharmaceutical R&D. Key responsibilities Design and implement scalable knowledge graph architectures to integrate multi-modal data (e.g., omics, process, analytical, lineage) Build and manage graph data models representing entities such as samples, processes, assays, targets, and biological relationships Drive adoption of graph technologies (e.g., RDF, property graphs, SPARQL/Cypher) Partner with platform teams to implement scalable infrastructure (e.g., Amazon Neptune, serverless pipelines) Ensure performance, scalability, and governance of knowledge graph platforms Collaborate with product managers, scientists, data engineers, and AI/ML teams to

- **Id**: 3653386
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/merck-co-specialist-semantic-data-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Prague, Czech Republic, Hyderabad, India
- **Countries**: CZ, IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-02T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-02
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T05:00:30Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3895
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Veterinary Medicine, Vaccines, Biologics & Biosimilars, Oncology Therapeutics

## Company

- **Id**: 3768
- **Name**: Merck & Co.
- **Domain**: msd.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/msd>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 98
- **Open postings**: 191
- **Ghost share**: 0.026
- **Stale share**: 0.105
- **Repost share**: 0.173
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 16
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Technologies

- **Amazon Neptune** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **CloudFormation** — Optional: no
- **Confluence** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Jira** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Graph** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: yes
- **AWS Step Functions** — Optional: yes
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Czech Republic** — Iso: CZ; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T00:55:12Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 88
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.884
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 16
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

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