Ontology Architect — Enterprise Knowledge Graphs

Accenture; Overland Park (KS); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) plan

Paid holidays & time off

Job summary

Accenture seeks an experienced Knowledge Modeler / Ontologist to design and govern domain ontologies for enterprise knowledge graphs. You will bridge business stakeholders, data engineering, and AI/ML teams to produce standards-compliant semantic models that enable intelligent applications.

The role is hybrid, entails travel 20–80%, and requires strong collaboration across Data, AI/ML, Product, and SME teams. Minimum 5 years in ontology engineering and graduate education are expected.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years hands-on ontology engineering or knowledge modeling.
• Experience delivering domain ontologies in enterprise or consulting.
• Ability to translate business concepts into machine-readable semantics.

Responsibilities

• Lead ontology lifecycle: requirements, modeling, formal spec, validation, deployment.
• Design schema structures and hydration patterns for data sources.
• Apply naming/URI conventions and modular ontology architecture.
• Develop ontologies and vocabularies using OWL, RDF, RDFS, SKOS.
• Collaborate with data engineering, NLP, and knowledge graph teams.

Skills

Ontology engineering

Semantic modeling

Knowledge graph development

Stakeholder communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s in Information Science or CS or related field

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

Protégé

Ontotext

GraphDB

Stardog

Neo4j

Job description

Accenture seeks an experienced Knowledge Modeler / Ontologist to design and govern domain ontologies for enterprise knowledge graphs. You will bridge business stakeholders, data engineering, and AI/ML teams to produce standards-compliant semantic models that enable intelligent applications.

The role is hybrid, entails travel 20–80%, and requires strong collaboration across Data, AI/ML, Product, and SME teams. Minimum 5 years in ontology engineering and graduate education are expected.