Graph DB Engineer

EXL · India

Role Purpose

Build the Entity Graph. This role converts the resolved, canonical entity data into a production graph — implementing node and edge projections, loading and optimising the graph, enabling multi-hop traversal, and validating that the graph faithfully represents entity, ownership and affiliation relationships back to source.

Key Responsibilities

• Graph schema implementation — implement the graph schema defined by the architect: node types, edge types, properties, keys and constraints.
• Relational-to-graph projection — build and operate the projection logic that converts canonical relational entity tables into graph nodes and edges, with full source attribution.
• Graph loading & pipelines — develop and optimise graph load processes; implement incremental re-projection triggered by change data capture.
• Relationship modelling — implement entity-to-entity, ownership (parent/subsidiary), officer/director and affiliation relationships, including bitemporal handling where required.
• Traversal & query engineering — write and optimise graph queries (GQL/Cypher-style) supporting multi-hop traversal scenarios such as corporate family trees and shared-agent affiliations.
• Performance optimisation — tune graph queries and load performance; profile traversal cost; address scale bottlenecks.
• Graph quality validation — implement automated checks on node/edge counts, orphan detection, relationship integrity and source traceability.
• Consumption support — support exposure of graph data through API and SQL endpoints, and collaborate on GraphRAG indexing over graph projections.

Required Skills & Experience

Skill Area

Specific Requirements

Graph Databases

Hands-on with one or more of: Fabric Graph, Neo4j, Cosmos DB (Gremlin), TigerGraph, Neptune. Strong LPG modelling

Graph Query

GQL (ISO/IEC 39075), Cypher or Gremlin; multi-hop traversal, path queries, pattern matching, query optimisation

Data Engineering

Python/PySpark, SQL, Delta Lake, ETL/ELT pipeline development, incremental/CDC processing

Microsoft Fabric

Lakehouse, OneLake, Spark notebooks, Data Factory pipelines, SQL analytics endpoint

Modelling

Converting relational schemas to graph models, key/edge design, handling many-to-many and hierarchical structures

Quality & Ops

Graph validation techniques, monitoring, troubleshooting load failures, documentation

Must-Have Qualifications

• 7+ years data engineering with 3+ years hands-on graph database development
• Proven experience modelling and loading a production graph from relational sources
• Strong graph query language proficiency (GQL, Cypher or Gremlin)
• Solid PySpark and SQL engineering skills
• Experience with hierarchical/ownership data structures and recursive relationships

Nice-to-Have

• Microsoft Fabric Graph experience (native LPG on OneLake)
• Exposure to GraphRAG or graph-based retrieval
• Experience in corporate entity, KYC, fraud-network or supply-chain graph domains
• Graph algorithms (community detection, centrality, shortest path)

Key Deliverables Owned

• Implemented graph schema and node/edge projection logic
• Baseline entity graph populated in Fabric
• Incremental re-projection on CDC
• Validated multi-hop traversal scenarios
• Graph quality validation checks and performance tuning results

Dual Role / Complementary Skills

Highly complementary with the VectorDB Engineer (Role 4) — GraphRAG requires graph traversal and vector retrieval working together. If consolidating headcount, these two roles can be merged into a single "Graph & Vector Engineer", since the vector workload is concentrated in Phase 2 while graph schema work runs earlier. Also cross-covers with the Data Engineer on Spark-based pipeline work.