Data&Knowledge platform Engineer
SICPA SA
- Location
- Onsite (Madrid, Community of Madrid)
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior Level
About the role
SICPA, a Swiss technology company securing national assets, seeks a Senior Data & Knowledge Platform Engineer to build data foundations for sovereign intelligence and AI initiatives. The role involves designing scalable pipelines and knowledge graphs to support analytics and decision-making applications.
Skills
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Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Senior Data & Knowledge Platform Engineer to design, build and operate the data foundations behind SICPA’s sovereign intelligence and AI initiatives.
The role combines production data engineering with entity-centric, graph and semantic data modelling. You will turn heterogeneous internal, government and open-source data into trusted, traceable and reusable data products that support analytics, knowledge graphs, AI agents and decision-support applications.
Key responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable pipelines for structured, unstructured, geospatial, OSINT ( Open source intelligence) and SICPA data.
- Define reusable data models supporting relational, graph, geospatial and AI workloads.
- Build capabilities for data quality, enrichment, entity resolution, provenance and lineage.
- Develop and operate data platforms, repositories and APIs for applications such as SICPA Pulse.
- Operationalise taxonomies, ontologies and knowledge graphs.
- Prepare reliable data pipelines for RAG systems and AI agents.
- Implement testing, CI/CD, monitoring and observability for data products.
- Collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, domain experts and academic partners to productionise analytical and graph-based solutions.
Required qualifications
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Software Engineering or a related field, with 5+ years of experience building production data platforms.
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Experience integrating heterogeneous data from APIs, databases, files or messaging systems.
- Solid knowledge of data modelling, schema evolution, data quality, lineage and provenance.
- Experience with workflow orchestration, automated testing, Docker and CI/CD.
- Experience with relational databases and at least one additional data technology such as graph, document, vector, search or geospatial databases.
- Strong software-engineering and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Preferred qualifications
- Knowledge graphs and technologies such as Neo4j, Cypher, RDF or SPARQL.
- Ontology, taxonomy or semantic-data modelling.
- Entity resolution, record linkage and temporal data modelling.
- Geospatial data engineering, including PostGIS or GeoJSON.
- Data pipelines for RAG, LLM and agentic systems.
- Experience with OSINT, multilingual, government, financial or fraud-related data.
- Familiarity with graph analytics or graph machine learning.
- Experience with Azure, AWS, hybrid or on-premise deployments.