Associate Architect
Virtusa
Pune Division, Maharashtra, India
Job Requirements
Core Development: Strong Java development experience (Java 17, Spring Boot, microservices).
Graph Databases & Semantics: Practical working experience with Graph Databases (such as Ontotext GraphDB, Neo4j, Amazon Neptune), SPARQL query language, triple stores, and knowledge graphs.
Semantic Modeling: Familiarity with semantic standards, taxonomies, and ontology design (SKOS, RDF, .TTL, OWL, W3C URI).
Natural Language Processing (NLP): Experience with NLP tools and libraries (such as expert.ai, spaCy, NLTK) for entity and sentiment recognition.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop scalable backend services using Java 17+ and Spring Boot.
- Build and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices.
- Collaborate with Product, QA, and DevOps teams throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Participate in technical design discussions and code reviews.
- Write unit and integration tests.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues.
- Contribute to CI/CD automation and engineering best practices.
Required Qualifications
- 4+ years of software development experience.
- Strong experience with:
- Java
- Spring Boot
- REST APIs
- SQL databases
- Experience with AWS cloud services.
- Experience with:
- Docker
- CI/CD pipelines
- Git-based workflows
- Understanding of Agile development methodologies.
- Experience writing automated tests using JUnit and Mockito.
- Experience with Expert.ai for natural language understanding, entity extraction, and AI-driven content enrichment.
- Hands-on experience with GraphDB and SPARQL for querying and managing RDF-based knowledge graphs.
- Experience with graph data modeling, including ontology design, linked data principles, and property graph patterns.
- Proficiency in semantic modeling using standards such as OWL, RDF/RDFS, and SKOS for knowledge representation.
- Experience applying semantic text analytics for automated classification, tagging, and content intelligence across large-scale publishing or research platforms.
Work Experience
10-15Years