Forward Deployed Engineer - Data Management
Systems Limited - Middle East & Africa (Techvista)Job Description
Systems Ltd is looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer – Data Management to Make enterprise data and knowledge usable by AI — build AI-ready data products, knowledge graphs, and retrieval infrastructure that every other practice depends on. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Build AI-ready data pipelines and data products that other practices can consume directly - Design and build knowledge graphs and semantic layers that structure enterprise knowledge for AI consumption - Own vector and retrieval infrastructure (embeddings, indexes, hybrid search) shared across GenAI and ML practices - Run data quality assessment and remediation specifically for AI/ML consumption, not just BI - Own knowledge engineering — taxonomy, ontology, and ingestion pipelines for enterprise knowledge sources - Partner with GenAI Engineers, Data Scientists, and AI Architects to expose curated data/knowledge as reusable assets - Explain the difference between BI-grade and AI-grade data quality to non-technical stakeholders - Act as a shared upstream dependency for multiple practices — manage competing requests - Document data/knowledge assets clearly enough for self-service reuse REQUIREMENTS & SKILLS - 5–10+ yrs data engineering, with 2+ yrs building AI-ready data products specifically - Strong in knowledge graph technologies (Neo4j, RDF/SPARQL, or similar) and semantic/ontology modeling - Experience with vector/retrieval infrastructure (embeddings, ANN indexes, hybrid search) - Solid data pipeline engineering (Spark, dbt, Airflow, or similar) and data quality frameworks - Familiarity with enterprise data governance and lineage tooling - Can explain the difference between BI-grade and AI-grade data quality to a non-technical stakeholder - Collaborates closely with GenAI Engineers, Data Scientists, and AI Architects as a shared upstream dependency - Prioritizes competing requests from multiple practices fairly and transparently - Documents clearly enough that other teams can self-serve without hand-holding - Success metrics: data/knowledge asset reuse across practices · data quality incidents affecting AI systems (target zero) · time from raw data to AI-ready asset
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