Senior Data & Knowledge Engineer

Job#: 3039213 Job Description: Senior Data & Knowledge Engineer Location: Chandler, Arizona (Hybrid) Employment Type: Contract Contract Duration: 12 Months Role Overview This role is responsible for leading the design, governance, and continuous improvement of the data and knowledge foundations that support AI and agentic capabilities. The individual will work across structured and unstructured data sources to ensure information is defined, organized, and prepared for trusted AI consumption. This senior-level position involves setting direction, influencing standards, and guiding complex cross-domain data and knowledge initiatives. Key Responsibilities • Lead the design and improvement of data and knowledge assets that support AI and agentic use-cases, including both structured and unstructured sources. • Define and maintain standards for how documentation, configurations, telemetry, metadata, policies, and operational knowledge are organized and prepared for AI consumption. • Partner with subject matter experts to understand network technologies, operational context, and domain-specific knowledge to improve model grounding. • Design and guide scalable methods for storing, governing, indexing, validating, and retrieving context assets for AI-enabled workflows. • Establish and evolve controls to identify and reduce data quality, metadata, and knowledge quality issues. • Lead remediation efforts for data and knowledge quality issues by identifying root causes and defining corrective actions. • Define expectations for ownership, stewardship, lineage, freshness, and governance across relevant data and knowledge domains. • Build or guide the development of pipelines, transformations, and validation routines to improve the quality of AI-relevant context assets. • Mentor less senior engineers on data engineering, knowledge engineering, and context management practices. Required Qualifications Experience: Experience engineering and governing both structured and unstructured data used for analytics, automation, or AI-enabled solutions. Demonstrated ability to define enterprise-ready standards for data, documents, and knowledge artifacts. Experience establishing data quality, metadata quality, and knowledge quality controls. Technical Skills: Advanced understanding of data modeling, transformation, storage, indexing, retrieval, and metadata management patterns. Strong knowledge of preventative and detective controls for data and knowledge management. Familiarity with AI-oriented data preparation concepts such as grounding and retrieval-readiness. Proficiency in Data Analysis, Data Governance, and Data Modeling is required. Preferred Qualifications • Experience working with knowledge sources such as policies, standards, configurations, telemetry, and runbooks. • Strong working understanding of network technologies, infrastructure concepts, and service models. • Experience defining data ownership, stewardship, and governance expectations in a regulated enterprise environment. • Ability to lead or influence cross-functional work across engineering, architecture, operations, and governance teams. • Experience working in a fast-paced and complex environment with evolving priorities and cross-functional dependencies. Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click here for more details. By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Everforth Apex and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our privacy policy at https://www.apexsystems.com/privacy-policy Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide. Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. 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We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Benefits Department at [email protected] or 804-523-8228. (Do not submit resumes or solicit consultants to this email address). 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