Associate Director, Enterprise Knowledge Engineering

Accenture PLC; Scottsdale (AZ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, life, and LTD

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a senior knowledge engineer to own the discipline of enterprise knowledge engineering, ontology design, and AI-driven meaning. In this Associate Director role you will drive scaled ontology creation, semantic-layer patterns, and authoritative argumentation for AI initiatives, across client engagements.

Travel may be required; you will manage a team and mentor others while shaping the technical direction, communicating with executives, architects, and stakeholders about the

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years in knowledge engineering, semantic web, ontology design, or adjacent data disciplines, with at least 2 years specifically on AI/LLM-based work.
• Minimum of 6 years with knowledge-graph technologies (RDF, SPARQL, SHACL, property graphs) and enterprise graph databases.
• Minimum of 6 years of managerial or discipline–leadership experience, able to explain the value of the semantic layer to senior stakeholders (per the W16 scaffold for this family).
• Minimum of 2 years of publishing or speaking publicly in the discipline.
• Minimum of 3 years owning a productized offering, platform, or methodology — not just consulting within one.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience).

Responsibilities

• Own the methodology: scale ontology creation, semantic-layer design, knowledge-agent patterns — yours to defend, evolve, and sign off on, including the boundary with problem-scoped ontology work (build the ontology here; wield it there).
• Own the asset portfolio: ontology templates, entity-resolution patterns, semantic serving reference architectures — every engagement consumes or produces one.
• Own the technical point of view: you can explain the value of the semantic layer to a CFO and defend an OWL modeling decision to an architect in the same meeting — and the market hears the argument from you.
• Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Skills

Ontology design

Knowledge engineering

AI/LLM experience

Public speaking

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

RDF

SPARQL

SHACL

Property graphs

Enterprise graph databases

Job description

Accenture is seeking a senior knowledge engineer to own the discipline of enterprise knowledge engineering, ontology design, and AI-driven meaning. In this Associate Director role you will drive scaled ontology creation, semantic-layer patterns, and authoritative argumentation for AI initiatives, across client engagements.

Travel may be required; you will manage a team and mentor others while shaping the technical direction, communicating with executives, architects, and stakeholders about the