Senior Knowledge Graph & AI Strategy Leader

Accenture UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture UK seeks a senior leader to own the Knowledge Graph scope across strategic programs. You will design, develop, and implement AI and semantic solutions, partnering with senior client stakeholders to shape graph-powered offerings and defend business cases at executive levels.

You will drive Accenture's sales/pre-sales efforts, mentor engineering teams, and lead innovations in data architectures and scalable AI systems for multi-stakeholder programs.

Qualifications

• Significant experience with Knowledge Graph technologies (RDF, SPARQL, LPG, SHACL).
• Advanced practical knowledge of schema design, ontology management, and KG curation.
• Seasoned in designing and developing KG solutions and graph-based ML models (functional + technical).
• Proven experience in end-to-end data pipeline implementations for AI applications (esp. LLMs).
• Extensive experience with relational databases, object stores, graph databases (Stardog, Neo4J, Neptune), and vector DBs.
• Managerial experience leading people and delivering data transformation programs with sales/pre-sales exposure.

Responsibilities

• Lead the complete Knowledge Graph solution scope transforming data architecture for strategic clients.
• Own design, development, and implementation of AI and semantic solutions across the program.
• Partner with project leaders and 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 at executive level.
• Lead Accenture sales and pre-sales efforts and shape data transformation programs.
• Drive thought leadership, innovation, and asset development across trends and agentic technologies.

Skills

Knowledge Graph technologies

KG curation

Graph ML

Data pipelines

Relational DBs

Sales/pre-sales

People management

Python

Cloud platforms

LLMs

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Ph.D. in a related field

Tools

Stardog

Neo4J

Amazon Neptune

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Apache NiFi

Airflow

Job description

Accenture UK seeks a senior leader to own the Knowledge Graph scope across strategic programs. You will design, develop, and implement AI and semantic solutions, partnering with senior client stakeholders to shape graph-powered offerings and defend business cases at executive levels.

You will drive Accenture's sales/pre-sales efforts, mentor engineering teams, and lead innovations in data architectures and scalable AI systems for multi-stakeholder programs.