Knowledge Engineering Manager

Accenture UK & Ireland; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture UK & Ireland is seeking a senior Knowledge Graph leader to drive end-to-end KG and AI solutions within a large program. You will design, implement, and govern semantic layers across data architectures, working with cross-functional teams and client stakeholders.

You will mentor teams, shape methodologies, and contribute to sales efforts while staying at the forefront of AI, NLP, and graph technologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, plus at least 4 qualifications.
• Experience with Knowledge Graph technologies (RDF, SPARQL, LPG, SHACL).
• Schema design, ontology management, KG curation experience.
• KG solutions and graph-based ML design and development.
• End-to-end AI data pipelines, hands-on design and config.
• Experience with relational/graph databases and vector stores.

Responsibilities

• Leads build of Knowledge Graph solutions transforming client's data architecture.
• Directs design, development, and implementation of AI and semantic solutions.
• Collaborates with project leaders and client stakeholders to create stand-out KG offerings.
• Develops strong client relationships and earns advisor trust.
• Makes business case for semantic layer solutions to clients.
• Contributes to Accenture sales and pre-sales efforts.
• Provides thought leadership on tech trends, opportunities, and risks.

Skills

Knowledge Graph technologies

KG schema design

KG solutions & graph-based ML

End-to-end AI data pipelines

Relational/graph databases

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Apache NiFi

Airflow

TensorFlow

PyTorch

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.

Basic (required) Qualification

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, plus at least 4 of the following:
• Experience with Knowledge Graph technologies (RDF, SPARQL, LPG, SHACL)
• demonstratable experience in schema design, ontology management, and KG curation
• Solid experience in designing and developing KG solutions and graph-based ML models (functional + technical)
• Familiarity with end-to-end data pipeline implementations for AI applications (esp. LLMs), with hands-on design and configuration experience
• Considerable experience and strong knowledge of relational databases, object stores, graph databases (Stardog, Neo4J, Amazon Neptune), and vector databases
• Experience in leading a team or workstream within a larger program

Preferred Qualification

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Knowledge of 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.
• 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.