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Senior Knowledge Graph Data Engineer

McKinsey & Company
Boston, MA Full-time 2/4/2026
Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
Approval 97.9%Total filings 747New hires 303
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FY 2025

Job Description

As a Senior Knowledge Graph Data Engineer, you will build graph-centric data pipelines and a semantic data layer that powers Generative AI applications. You will work with a diverse team to design entity/relationship models and implement data ingestion and normalization processes, all while writing production-grade Python code and managing cloud-based infrastructure.

Requirements

  • Degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent experience
  • 7+ years of professional experience as a data engineer, with a strong focus on cloud-based data engineering using AWS services
  • Expertise with Python development
  • Experience with knowledge graphs
  • Practicing high coding standards with clean code, modularity, error handling, testing automation and more
  • Strong experience with relational databases
  • Very driven, super strong on execution and output orientation
  • Hands-on experience with Docker
  • Solid and demonstrable background in data pipeline performance and diagnostics
  • Interest in Generative AI and other ML topics
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze and resolve complex data engineering challenges
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

  • Build graph-centric data pipelines and a semantic data layer for GenAI applications
  • Design and evolve entity/relationship models, taxonomies, and identifiers
  • Implement ingestion, normalization, and enrichment that maps heterogeneous sources to graph schemas
  • Perform entity resolution and semantic tagging
  • Validate structures and publish data to graph stores
  • Write production-grade Python code with comprehensive tests
  • Create and modify GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines
  • Operate AWS- and Docker-based infrastructure to deliver reliable, scalable knowledge graph data services

Benefits

  • Employees at McKinsey are often offered a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, prescription benefits, mental-health resources, expert medical opinions, and travel emergency protection. Financial benefits typically include retirement contributions and savings plans, life/accident/disability insurance, tax-advantaged accounts, and financial coaching. Many roles also feature generous paid time off (including volunteering days), flexible/hybrid work options, family care support (parental leave, fertility/adoption/surrogacy assistance, backup care), tuition reimbursement, transportation benefits, discounts, and matching gifts.