Knowledge Engineering Senior Manager- Talent and Workforce (All Genders)

Accenture PLC; Kronberg im Taunus; Hybrid; EUR 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance Equity

Flexible working models including home

Training opportunities

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a senior Knowledge Graph Architect to shape enterprise AI through end-to-end KG strategy, architecture, and delivery on complex programs. You will create scalable AI solutions, lead engineering teams, and guide adoption of new KG methods across engagements.

The role emphasizes collaboration with business and tech leaders, designing ontologies, and building reusable assets to scale across clients and industries. Flexible working models available.

Qualifications

• Significant experience with Knowledge Graph technologies (RDF, SPARQL, LPG, SHACL) and ontology management.
• Experience designing and developing KG solutions and graph-based ML models.
• Hands-on data pipeline design for AI apps (LLMs) and related tooling.
• Strong knowledge of relational, object stores, graph and vector databases.
• managerial experience leading people and delivering high-value programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the complete Knowledge Graph solution scope for strategic clients.
• Own design and implementation of AI and semantic solutions across programs.
• Partner with leaders to create stand-out graph-powered offerings.
• Develop trusted-advisor relationships with senior client stakeholders.
• Make the business case for semantic layer solutions at executive level.
• Lead sales/pre-sales efforts and shape data transformation programs.
• Drive thought leadership and asset development in AI and KG methods.

Skills

Knowledge Graph technologies

KG design & curation

Graph-based ML models

End-to-end data pipelines for AI apps

Relational/Graph/Vector databases

People management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Ph.D. in CS / Engineering / Math

Tools

Stardog

Neo4J

Amazon Neptune

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Apache NiFi

Airflow

AWS / Azure / GCP

Job description

Shape the future of enterprise AI by leading Knowledge Graph strategy, architecture, innovation, and delivery across our most complex programs.

Your Mission

You lead the complete knowledge engineering scope on our most strategic and complex programs; lead creation of thought leadership, innovation, and assets for the discipline. You own how the most demanding programs formulate real-world problems into scalable AI and KG solutions, setting strategy and architecture end to end. You lead and develop teams of engineers, building capability across the discipline and guiding adoption of new methods and algorithms. You define what staying at the forefront means for the practice; drive innovation and translate it into new offerings. You set the standards for how ontologies are designed, evaluated, and maintained across programs. You make the case to senior stakeholders and shape the methodologies and data architectures that prove value at scale. You lead the creation of thought leadership, innovation, and reusable assets that advance the discipline beyond any single engagement. You partner with business and technical leaders to direct end-to-end delivery across complex, multi-stakeholder program

Your Daily Work

• Lead the complete Knowledge Graph solution scope that transforms data architecture for our most strategic and complex clients.

• Own the design, development, and implementation of AI and semantic solutions across the program.

• Partner with project leaders, delivery leads, and senior client stakeholders to create stand-out, graph-powered offerings.

• Develop trusted-advisor relationships with senior client stakeholders.

• Make and defend the business case for the semantic layer solution at the executive level.

• Lead Accenture sales and pre-sales efforts and shape data transformation programs.

• Drive the practice’s thought leadership, innovation, and asset development on trends and agentic technologies, and develop the teams who deliver them.

Who You Are:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, plus all of the following:
• Significant professional experience with Knowledge Graph technologies (RDF, SPARQL, LPG, SHACL) , schema design, ontology management, and KG curation
• Considerable experience designing and developing KG solutions and graph-based ML models (functional + technical)
• Experience with end-to-end data pipeline implementations for AI applications (esp. LLMs), with hands‑on design and configuration
• Strong knowledge and experience with relational databases, object stores, graph databases (Stardog, Neo4J, Amazon Neptune), and vector databases
• Managerial experience leading people, able to explain the value of the semantic layer and knowledge graphs to senior business and technology stakeholders, with a proven track record in sales and/or pre‑sales and in delivering data transformation programs and developing teams

Preferred Skills/ Experience:

• Experience in Practical experience with NLP techniques and/or Search Techniques, prompt engineering Experience with LLMs for enterprise-scale applications.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience in Python, with experience in frameworks like Tensorflow, PyTorch, and tools for building ETL pipelines (e.g. Apache NiFi, Airflow)
• 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
• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Broad experience in diverse ML techniques and agentic systems.

What We Offer

• Performance Equity
• Flexible working models including home office
• Access to over 30,000 training opportunities covering professional and soft skills

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