Remote Senior Knowledge Graph Architect — AI-Ready Ontologies

Cognizant; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays & PTO

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Annual incentive program

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation in the United States is seeking a Senior Knowledge Graph & Ontology Architect to design and govern enterprise semantic architectures that power AI-ready knowledge systems, search, analytics, and trusted data platforms.

You will collaborate with data architects, engineers, domain experts, AI specialists, and client stakeholders to establish the semantic foundation that underpins enterprise knowledge graphs, governance, and scalable graph services.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data architecture or knowledge graph architecture.
• Hands-on OWL/RDF ontology development and SHACL constraint authoring.
• Experience with graph platforms (Neo4j, Neptune, TigerGraph).
• Strong Python and SQL skills with familiarity of Google Cloud Platform services.

Responsibilities

• Design and govern enterprise ontologies, semantic models, and knowledge graph architectures.
• Lead the development of business domain models and governed vocabularies across key entities.
• Define and maintain enterprise glossaries, KPI registries, semantic standards, and governance processes.

Skills

Knowledge graph architecture

Ontology engineering

Python

SQL

Stakeholder collaboration

Governance & compliance

Tools

Neo4j

Amazon Neptune

TigerGraph

GraphDB

Stardog

Apache Jena

Spanner Graph

GQL

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation in the United States is seeking a Senior Knowledge Graph & Ontology Architect to design and govern enterprise semantic architectures that power AI-ready knowledge systems, search, analytics, and trusted data platforms.

You will collaborate with data architects, engineers, domain experts, AI specialists, and client stakeholders to establish the semantic foundation that underpins enterprise knowledge graphs, governance, and scalable graph services.