Senior Stardog Admin/DevOps Consultant

Location: 1st Preference - Edina, MN (Hybrid – 3 Days From Office) 2nd Preference – Chicago (Illinois) / Irving (Texas) (Hybrid – 3 Days From Office) Mandatory Skills: Stardog, Knowledge Graph, Stardog Administration, SPARQL, RDF, OWL, RDFS, SHACL

Desired Skills: Databricks, Postgress, Azure, AKS, Admin, Recovery

Job Description: We are seeking a Senior Stardog Database Administrator (DBA) / Knowledge Graph Engineer with 3+ years of experience administering Stardog or comparable graph database platforms to support enterprise healthcare data and analytics initiatives. This role is responsible for managing, optimizing, and advancing the organization's knowledge graph platform to enable healthcare analytics, interoperability, data governance, semantic integration, and AI-driven solutions. The successful candidate will work closely with data engineers, architects, clinical informatics teams, analysts, product owners, and software engineers to support operational, financial, quality, and clinical healthcare use cases. Experience with Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Databricks, or modern cloud-based analytics platforms is highly preferred.

Knowledge Graph & Graph Database Administration: Install, configure, monitor, upgrade, and maintain Stardog environments across development, test, and production environments. Ensure platform availability, scalability, security, reliability, and performance. Administer enterprise knowledge graph solutions supporting healthcare analytics, interoperability, benchmarking, quality reporting, and AI initiatives. Optimize SPARQL queries, semantic reasoning performance, indexing strategies, and large-scale graph workloads. Implement and maintain backup, recovery, disaster recovery, and business continuity processes. Manage RDF, OWL, RDFS, SHACL, and semantic data models representing healthcare concepts, measures, entities, and relationships. Collaborate with enterprise architects and data governance teams to design and maintain healthcare ontologies and semantic models. Support data virtualization, graph integrations, and semantic interoperability initiatives.

Data Platform Operations: Partner with Data Engineering and Platform Engineering teams supporting enterprise data platforms. Integrate Stardog with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Databricks, cloud storage platforms, APIs, and data integration tools. Develop automation scripts and operational procedures for deployments, monitoring, maintenance, and platform administration. Support cloud-native deployments utilizing Kubernetes, Docker, Azure Container Apps, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and related Azure platform services. Monitor platform health, performance, capacity, and operational metrics. Support CI/CD processes and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices where appropriate. Required

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Healthcare Informatics, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Experience: 3+ years of hands-on experience administering Stardog or equivalent graph database technologies. 5+ years of experience supporting enterprise databases, data platforms, or data engineering environments. Experience supporting mission-critical production systems. Experience troubleshooting and resolving complex platform, performance, and integration issues.