Knowledge Engineering (Senior) Consultant

Accenture; Deutschland; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Training opportunities

ESPP

EAP

Cutting-edge KG & AI projects

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a strong Knowledge Engineer growing into a team lead in Germany. You will work across the Knowledge Graph lifecycle, from ingestion to deployment, applying current methodologies and guiding junior engineers. You will help articulate the value of generative AI and KG approaches for business problems.

You will design, evaluate, and maintain ontologies, collaborate with users and engineers, and contribute to end-to-end AI solutions in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent; 3+ years in KG/AI roles preferred.
• Experience with Knowledge Graph technologies (RDF, SPARQL, LPG, SHACL).
• Experience in schema design, ontology management, KG curation.
• Well versed in KG solutions and graph-based ML models (functional + technical).
• End-to-end data pipelines for AI apps (LLMs).
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, object stores, graph DBs and vector DBs.
• German and English at least B2 level.

Responsibilities

• Build Knowledge Graph components transforming a client's data architecture.
• Design, develop, and implement AI/semantic solutions integrated with the broader system.
• Collaborate with project team and delivery leads.
• Build solid relationships with client counterparts on their workstream.
• Assemble evidence for the recommended semantic layer solution.
• Support Accenture sales efforts when called on.
• Stay current with Data & AI, agentic technologies; share learnings with the team.

Skills

Knowledge Graph design

KG curation

Graph ML models

End-to-end data pipelines

Relational databases

German & English (B2)

Team leadership potential

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Stardog

Neo4J

Amazon Neptune

Vector databases

Job description

• You are a a strong individual contributor knowledge engineer growing into a team lead.
• You are well versed in the full knowledge graph development lifecycle.
• You formulate real-world problems into practical, efficient, scalable AI and Knowledge Graph solutions, working hands-on across the lifecycle from ingestion through modeling, curation, and deployment.
• You apply current methodologies, techniques, and algorithms with the right architecture, and begin to guide junior engineers on the project.
• You stay current with knowledge engineering, generative AI, LLM, and multi-modal models; look for opportunities to apply them to the problem at hand.
• You design, evaluate, and maintain ontologies as needed.
• You help articulate the value of generative AI and knowledge graph approaches for a given business problem.
• You share what they learn with the team.
• You collaborate with users, use case reps, engineers, architects, and UI designers to deliver their piece of an end-to-end solution.

Your Daily Work

• Build Knowledge Graph components that contribute to transforming a client's data architecture.
• Design, develop, and implement AI and semantic solutions; ensure their work integrates cleanly with the broader system.
• Work alongside the project team and delivery leads.
• Build solid working relationships with client counterparts on their workstream.
• Help assemble the supporting evidence for the recommended semantic layer solution.
• Support Accenture sales efforts when called on.
• skills in cutting-edge Data & AI solutions, especially agentic technologies, and shares with the team.

Who You Are

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, plus at least 3 of the following:
• Experience with Knowledge Graph technologies (RDF, SPARQL, LPG, SHACL)
• Experience in schema design, ontology management, and KG curation
• Well versed in designing and developing KG solutions and graph-based ML models (functional + technical)
• Proven experience with end-to-end data pipeline implementation for AI applications (esp. LLMs), with hands-on design and configuration
• Strong knowledge and working experience with relational databases, object stores, graph databases (Stardog, Neo4J, Amazon Neptune), and vector databases
• Speak German and English on minimum of B2 level
• (no leadership/commercial requirement at this band)

Preferred Experience

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Well versed in Python, with experience in frameworks like Tensorflow, PyTorch, and tools for building ETL pipelines (e.g. Apache NiFi, Airflow)
• Practical experience with NLP and/or Search techniques
• Prompt engineering, and LLMs for enterprise-scale applications.
• You have team lead experience
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work across engineering, research, and product teams across multiple time zones.
• You have external client-facing consulting experience
• Broad experience in diverse ML techniques and agentic systems

What We Offer

• Hybrid working and flexible working models that support your individual needs
• Access to certifications, learning platforms, and more than 30,000 training opportunities
• Employee Share Purchase Program (ESPP) with preferential conditions
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and wellbeing resources to support your mental and emotional health
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge Knowledge Graph, Generative AI, and agentic AI projects for leading organisations

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