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 leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks 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

Preferred Skills:

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

1st - Day

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

NA

Job Posting End Date:

03/10/2026

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