Knowledge Engineering Manager

Accenture UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture UK is seeking a Knowledge Engineering Lead to transform clients' data architectures through innovative AI solutions. The role involves leading a team and developing knowledge graph technologies while ensuring seamless integration of AI and semantic solutions. The ideal candidate holds a Bachelor's degree and possesses solid experience in various graph and database technologies. Strong relationships with clients and contributions to sales efforts are essential for success in this position.

The position is based in Greater London, offering a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects that drive meaningful business transformations.

Qualifications

• Experience with Knowledge Graph technologies (RDF, SPARQL, LPG, SHACL).
• Solid experience in schema design, ontology management, and KG curation.
• Proven experience in designing and developing KG solutions and graph-based ML models.

Responsibilities

• Leads the build of Knowledge Graph solutions that transform a client's data architecture.
• Directs the design, development, and implementation of AI and semantic solutions.
• Works with project leaders and client stakeholders to create graph-powered Data & AI offerings.

Skills

Knowledge Graph technologies (RDF, SPARQL, LPG, SHACL)

schema design

ontology management

KG curation

end-to-end data pipeline for AI applications

relational databases

graph databases (Stardog, Neo4J, Amazon Neptune)

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

YOU ARE

You lead a significant knowledge engineering scope and function within a large program; actively contribute to thought leadership. You shape how a substantial body of work formulates real-world problems into scalable AI and KG solutions, and set the technical direction for that scope. You lead a team and guide exploration and implementation of new methodologies, model building techniques, and cutting‑edge algorithms. You remain at the forefront and drive innovation by applying these techniques to new business problems, use cases, and scenarios. You design, evaluate, and maintain ontologies, and establish the standards others follow. You justify the value to business and technology stakeholders, and construct the methodologies and data architectures that demonstrate it. You publish or present perspective beyond the immediate project. You work across business and technical teams to drive end‑to‑end delivery for their scope.

THE WORK

• Leads the build of Knowledge Graph solutions that transform a client's data architecture within program scope.
• Directs the design, development, and implementation of AI and semantic solutions, ensuring all the pieces work together seamlessly.
• Works with project leaders, delivery leads, and client stakeholders to create stand‑out, graph‑powered Data & AI offerings.
• Develops strong client relationships and earns the trust of key advisors.
• Makes the business case for the semantic layer solution recommended to the client.
• Contributes meaningfully to Accenture sales and pre‑sales efforts.
• Provides thought leadership on technology trends, new opportunities, innovations, and foreseeable limitations, risks, and concerns.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

BASIC (REQUIRED) QUALIFICATION

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, plus at least 4 of the following:
• Experience with Knowledge Graph technologies (RDF, SPARQL, LPG, SHACL)
• solid experience in schema design, ontology management, and KG curation
• Proven experience in 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/working experience of relational databases, object stores, graph databases (Stardog, Neo4J, Amazon Neptune), and vector databases

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