R&D IT Semantic Data Engineer

Prague - Czech Republic

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Description

Our company is seeking a Semantic Data Engineer to join the Knowledge Graphs & Semantic Engineering Services team in the Prague Tech Center. This team is dedicated to making use of research data efficient in support of data-driven drug discovery. We create reusable data products that provide analysis-ready data to our data scientists advancing pharmaceutical research. We design implement and use tools for data acquisition integration and enrichment using semantic web technologies and data exchange standards to reduce the friction and duplication of application-specific data engineering effort. If you are passionate about data integration and semantic web technologies and want to contribute to groundbreaking research this role is for you.

Responsibilities

Build ETL pipelines to integrate data in knowledge graphs
Create mappings to internal standard ontologies and reference datasets
Create database queries to support effective use of the integrated data

Qualifications

Required

Proficiency with semantic web technology stack (e.g. RDF data format SPARQL query language)
Experience in data engineering (e.g. SQL queries ETL jobs)
Command of at least one programming language such as Python
Experience with DevOps practices like source code version control (e.g. Git) continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD)
A university degree in Computer Science Information Technology Bioinformatics or Cheminformatics; or relevant skills and experience
Professional proficiency in English

Preferred

Familiarity with biology chemistry and pharmaceutical research
Good written and verbal communication and ability to collaborate with other teams to develop solutions
Hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services particularly the serverless services (e.g. Neptune Lambda Step Functions)
Understanding of FAIR principles
Experience with Atlassian stack of tools for agile software development (e.g. Jira Confluence)
Demonstrate growth mindset and ability to work with enterprise teams

What we offer

Exciting work in a great team global projects international environment
Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
Hybrid working model flexible role pattern
Competitive salary & incentive pay
Pension and health insurance contributions
Internal reward system and referral scheme
5 weeks annual leave5sick days15days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities12weeks of parental contribution
Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers Lítačka sport culture health travel etc.) Multisport Card
Vodafone Raiffeisen Bank Foodora and discount programmes
Up-to-date laptop and iPhone
Parking in the garage showers refreshments massage chairs library music corner

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Required Skills:

Application Management Business Process Automation Change Catalyst CI/CD Communication Continuous Delivery Continuous Integrations Creativity Customer Service Data Engineering Data Integration Data Visualization DevOps Toolchain IT Infrastructure Management Laboratory Automation Oral Communications Programming Languages Research Data Semantic Web Server Hardware Configuration Writing Technical Documents Written Communication

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

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Travel Requirements:

10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

1st - Day

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Job Posting End Date:

03/10/2026

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Job DescriptionOur company is seeking a Semantic Data Engineer to join the Knowledge Graphs & Semantic Engineering Services team in the Prague Tech Center. This team is dedicated to making use of research data efficient in support of data-driven drug discovery. We create reusable data products that ...