Industry: Retail Sector
Overview: We are recruiting for our client in the retail sector, seeking a highly skilled Graph Architect to lead the development and organization of product data, ensuring a seamless shopping experience for customers. This role will play a key part in structuring the relationships between products, using taxonomies and ontologies to improve the discoverability and categorization of items in the company's digital platforms.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead Architecture and Technical Solutions: Design and implement the technical approach for creating a semantic layer, ensuring the product data is structured for easy navigation and relationships.
Strategy and Development: Define and execute the strategy for technical development, leading the implementation of taxonomies and ontologies for product classification.
Facilitation of Technical Sessions: Conduct technical sessions with system owners and subject matter experts (SMEs) to gather input and drive alignment on the system architecture and taxonomy structures.
Domain Modeling: Develop a domain model focusing on bed textiles and aesthetics, creating associations that improve product relationships.
Ontology Creation: Establish an aesthetics ontology to define the various styles and themes of products, ensuring they are logically linked.
Business Rules Association: Define business rules that describe functional and aesthetic associations between product types, ensuring a prioritized and coherent organization of variants.
Data Enhancement: Work on enhancing product data taxonomically to ensure better product classification and user experience.
Collaboration with Cross-Functional Teams: Coordinate with various teams, including taxonomists, content engineers, and knowledge SMEs, to ensure data usability and integration into the company's digital platforms.
Top Priorities:
Lead the solutions architecture and technical approach for developing a semantic layer.
Develop a strategy and oversee the technical implementation of taxonomies and ontologies.
Facilitate technical sessions with system owners and SMEs to ensure alignment on data architecture and relationships.
Background & Core Activities: The successful candidate will work on a cross-functional team tasked with defining taxonomies for product categories such as bed textiles and aesthetics, creating a system that enhances the logic behind product associations. This will lead to an improved shopping experience where related products are easier to discover and navigate.
The Graph Architect will:
Build a domain model for bedding and textiles.
Establish a basic ontology for product aesthetics.
Define associative business rules for product categories.
Encode product associations in the knowledge graph.
Ensure product data is enhanced and properly categorized.
Collaborate closely with experience teams to ensure the data's usability in customer-facing digital platforms.
Skills and Qualifications:
Proven experience in graph architecture, taxonomy development, and ontology creation.
Strong technical expertise in solutions architecture, particularly in building semantic layers for product data.
Experience leading cross-functional teams and facilitating technical discussions with stakeholders and SMEs.
Ability to define and implement business rules for product associations.
Excellent communication skills to effectively work with both technical and non-technical teams.
Additional Information: A Graph Architect plays a critical role in connecting and organizing product information in a way that enhances the user experience. In this role, you will design and implement taxonomies that categorize and link products logically, improving discoverability and ensuring customers can easily find related items. Your work will streamline how products are classified and connected, ultimately improving the digital shopping experience for customers.
