Data Architect

Accenture Infrastructure and Capital Projects, LLC; Chennai District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an AI-enabled Data Architect to define data requirements, model data structures, and design scalable knowledge graphs on Google Cloud Platform. You will build data pipelines, ontologies, and semantic layers while collaborating with delivery teams across industries such as banking, healthcare, and manufacturing.

The role emphasizes hands-on work as an individual contributor with extensive exposure to GCP data/AI services and modern knowledge engineering practices, including

Qualifications

• Must have skills: Data Modeling Techniques and Methodologies.
• Good to have skills: Databricks Unified Data Analytics Platform, Google Cloud Data Services.

Responsibilities

• Build GCP-based knowledge engineering components using BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, IAM, APIs, Cloud Logging, and monitoring services.
• Implement graph ingestion, ontology/schema pipelines, semantic data products, vector and search integrations, LLM grounding layers, and governed access patterns on GCP.
• Build Knowledge Graph components that contribute to transforming a client’s data architecture.
• Design, develop, configure, test, and implement AI and semantic solutions that integrate clearly with the broader enterprise system.
• Work alongside project teams, delivery leads, engineers, architects, users, use case representatives, and UI designers to deliver assigned components of an end-to-end solution.
• Build solid working relationships with client counterparts on the workstream and communicate implementation progress, risks, dependencies, and technical findings clearly.
• Help assemble supporting evidence for recommended semantic layer solutions, including design rationale, implementation notes, validation inputs, data quality observations, and test outcomes.
• Support sales, solutioning, demos, accelerators, or reusable assets when called upon by providing technical inputs or implementation examples.
• Design, evaluate, maintain, and deploy ontologies, schemas, mappings, graph data models, metadata structures, validation rules, and knowledge graph components as needed.
• Keep developing skills in cutting-edge Data and AI solutions, especially agentic technologies, generative AI, LLMs, multimodal models, semantic search, graph RAG, and knowledge graph approaches.
• Share learnings with the team and help junior engineers understand practical development patterns, engineering standards, and knowledge graph implementation practices.

Skills

Data Modeling Techniques and Method/M?

Education

15 years full time education

Job description

Project Role : Data Architect
Project Role Description : Define the data requirements and structure for the application. Model and design the application data structure, storage and integration.
Must have skills : Data Modeling Techniques and Methodologies
Good to have skills : Databricks Unified Data Analytics Platform, Google Cloud Data Services
Minimum 7.5 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary

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Role Summary / Description
Engineer role in Knowledge Engineering for a strong individual contributor who helps build scalable Knowledge Graph, semantic layer, ontology, and AI-enabled data solutions using Google Cloud Platform (GCP). In this role, the successful candidate works hands-on across the knowledge graph lifecycle from ingestion through modeling, curation, implementation, integration, and deployment. The role applies current methodologies, generative AI, LLM, multimodal, graph, search, and semantic techniques to practical business problems while collaborating with users, use case representatives, engineers, architects, UI designers, and delivery teams. The role must include industry experience or project exposure in domains such as banking, insurance, healthcare, retail, telecom, manufacturing, energy, public sector, or life sciences.

Key Responsibilities

• Build GCP-based knowledge engineering components using BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, IAM, APIs, Cloud Logging, and monitoring services.
• Implement graph ingestion, ontology/schema pipelines, semantic data products, vector and search integrations, LLM grounding layers, and governed access patterns on GCP.
• Build Knowledge Graph components that contribute to transforming a client’s data architecture.
• Design, develop, configure, test, and implement AI and semantic solutions that integrate clearly with the broader enterprise system.
• Work alongside project teams, delivery leads, engineers, architects, users, use case representatives, and UI designers to deliver assigned components of an end-to-end solution.
• Build solid working relationships with client counterparts on the workstream and communicate implementation progress, risks, dependencies, and technical findings clearly.
• Help assemble supporting evidence for recommended semantic layer solutions, including design rationale, implementation notes, validation inputs, data quality observations, and test outcomes.
• Support sales, solutioning, demos, accelerators, or reusable assets when called upon by providing technical inputs or implementation examples.
• Design, evaluate, maintain, and deploy ontologies, schemas, mappings, graph data models, metadata structures, validation rules, and knowledge graph components as needed.
• Keep developing skills in cutting-edge Data and AI solutions, especially agentic technologies, generative AI, LLMs, multimodal models, semantic search, graph RAG, and knowledge graph approaches.
• Share learnings with the team and help junior engineers understand practical development patterns, engineering standards, and knowledge graph implementation practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, or a related field.
• Minimum 2 years of experience with Knowledge Graph technologies such as RDF, SPARQL, LPG, SHACL, OWL, graph query languages, schema design, ontology management, and KG curation.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in schema design, ontology management, semantic modeling, taxonomy management, metadata management, and knowledge graph curation.
• Minimum 2 years designing and developing Knowledge Graph solutions and graph-based ML models across functional and technical contexts.
• Minimum 1 year of experience with end-to-end data pipeline implementation for AI applications, especially LLM-enabled or enterprise knowledge applications, with hands-on design and configuration.
• Minimum 2 years of experience with relational databases, object stores, graph databases such as Stardog, Neo4j, Amazon Neptune or equivalent, and vector databases.
• This role does not require leadership or commercial ownership team lead exposure is good to have.
• Ability to work hands-on as a strong individual contributor while collaborating across project teams and delivery workstreams.

Required Skills/ Experience

• Hands-on experience building GCP-enabled knowledge engineering solutions with BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, IAM, APIs, and cloud-native data/AI services.
• 2+ years of Python experience with frameworks and tools such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, PySpark, SQL, SPARQL, SHACL, Apache Airflow, Apache NiFi, APIs, and ETL pipeline development.
• Practical experience with NLP and/or search techniques, prompt engineering, LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, semantic search, and enterprise-scale AI application patterns.
• Ability to formulate real-world problems into practical, efficient, and scalable AI and Knowledge Graph solution components.
• Industry experience applying GCP-enabled knowledge engineering solutions in banking, insurance, healthcare, retail, communications, manufacturing, energy, public services, life sciences, or another relevant domain.
• Ability to build GCP-based components for semantic layer, ontology, graph, vector search, search, retrieval, and LLM grounding use cases.

Good to Have Skills

• 2+ years of hands-on experience with cloud platforms, with GCP specialization and exposure to AWS or Azure in multi-cloud environments.
• GCP certification or hands-on project experience in GCP data, AI/ML, solution architecture, or cloud engineering.
• Team lead exposure or readiness to guide junior engineers on project tasks.
• External client-facing consulting experience, including working with client stakeholders, delivery teams, or solutioning teams.
• Broad experience in diverse ML techniques, graph RAG, agentic systems, semantic search, entity resolution, multimodal models, explainable AI, and responsible AI practices.
• Experience building reusable code components, implementation templates, design notes, demos, proof-of-concept assets, runbooks, or enablement material.

15 years full time education

About Accenture

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