Knowledge Graph Backend Architect & Manager

Accenture; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 294,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel opportunities

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Back-End Engineer to design, build, and operate data infrastructure powering an AI-driven knowledge platform. You will work across the full back-end stack—architecting APIs, building data pipelines, and managing multi-modal databases while ensuring reliability and performance for partner teams.

The role requires strong fundamentals and comfort with relational schemas, graph queries, vector stores, and production-grade REST APIs.

Qualifications

• Experience with knowledge graphs and semantic technologies is central to the role.
• Proficient in designing production-grade REST APIs and data pipelines.
• Strong background in relational and graph database concepts, ETL and data hydration.

Responsibilities

• Hydrate structured and semi-structured data into Knowledge Graphs by mapping source data to ontology models.
• Develop data mapping and transformation workflows using R2RML or similar technologies.
• Write and optimize SPARQL queries for graph loading, validation, and retrieval.
• Build and maintain data ingestion pipelines and integrate data from enterprise systems.
• Design and optimize relational database schemas and queries to support efficient graph hydration and ETL workflows.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain vector database infrastructure for embedding storage, indexing, and semantic retrieval at scale.
• Design and maintain scalable graph query APIs consumed by internal application and product teams.
• Performance-tune graph database queries, indexing strategies, and data access patterns.
• Own containerization, deployment, and monitoring of graph services in cloud environments.
• Ensure data quality, ontology alignment, and secure handling of sensitive data (PII/PHI).
• Collaborate with ontologists, architects, and application teams to support Knowledge Graph implementations.

Skills

Knowledge graphs

REST APIs

Data modeling

Python

Tools

RDF/OWL

SPARQL

R2RML

GraphDB

Neo4j

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Airflow

Kafka

Git

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Back-End Engineer to design, build, and operate data infrastructure powering an AI-driven knowledge platform. You will work across the full back-end stack—architecting APIs, building data pipelines, and managing multi-modal databases while ensuring reliability and performance for partner teams.

The role requires strong fundamentals and comfort with relational schemas, graph queries, vector stores, and production-grade REST APIs.