Latin America (ALAC) AIML Data Quality & Governance Scientist
About the role
AIML Data Quality & Governance Scientist for Apple’s ALAC AI/ML team focused on building enterprise knowledge graphs, ensuring data quality and governance, and enabling AI-driven sales insights across Latin America. Roles include business knowledge capture, knowledge graph development, data quality & governance, unstructured data architecture, AI enablement for sales, and cross-functional/global collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Engage with business stakeholders to extract domain knowledge and translate into formal ontologies and knowledge graph schemas
- Design, build, and evolve enterprise knowledge graphs aligned with global partner graphs and incorporate external data sources
- Document and enforce data governance policies, establish data quality SLAs, dashboards, and leadership reporting
- Propose and design ingestion pipelines for unstructured content and transform inputs into structured knowledge via embedding and classification
- Design retrieval architectures (vector search, graph traversal) for AI tool consumption and evaluate AI agents against ALAC knowledge
- Collaborate with global AI platforms and engineering teams to surface ALAC knowledge in shared AI tools and agents
- Maintain user-centric focus to ensure sales teams receive fast, accurate, trustworthy answers
- Collaborate with regional/global teams across analytics, AI platforms, technology infrastructure, sales operations, and channel management
- Establish and communicate a roadmap for ALAC’s knowledge graph and data quality initiatives
Qualifications
- 6+ years in Data Science, Knowledge Engineering, or related field with experience extracting complex business concepts into formal ontologies, schemas, or knowledge graphs
- Hands-on experience designing/building knowledge graphs (e.g., Neo4j, GraphDB, Amazon Neptune) in production
- Proficiency in graph query languages (Cypher, SPARQL, Gremlin), semantic standards (RDF, OWL, SHACL), and metadata tools (Alation, Collibra, DataHub)
- Strong experience with data quality frameworks (rule definition, monitoring pipelines, anomaly detection, drift analysis)
- Experience designing ingestion pipelines for unstructured data and ETL/integration workflows for structured data
- Proficiency in SQL, Python, and at least one major data platform (Snowflake, Spark, or Hadoop)
- Familiarity with vector similarity search, embedding models, and RAG architectures
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Statistics, Engineering, or related field
- Fluent in English and Portuguese
Skills
Benefits
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