Senior Knowledge Engineer & Ontology Architect

Accenture PLC; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 399,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Life insurance

Long-term disability

401(k)

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture PLC in Washington state seeks an Associate Director to own enterprise knowledge engineering services, including scaled ontology creation and semantic-layer design. You will lead three core activities and drive high-impact outcomes across clients and internal programs.

You will also defend ontology choices, develop reference architectures, and articulate the business value of semantic layers to senior stakeholders, enabling AI-enabled transformations across industries.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Scaled ontology creation, semantic-layer design, knowledge-agent patterns — defend, evolve, and sign off on.
• Ontology templates, entity-resolution patterns, semantic serving reference architectures.
• Explain the value of the semantic layer to a CFO and defend an OWL modeling decision to an architect in the same meeting.

Skills

Ontology design

Semantic web

AI/LLM knowledge

Knowledge engineering

Executive communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience

Tools

RDF

SPARQL

SHACL

Property graphs

Job description

Accenture PLC in Washington state seeks an Associate Director to own enterprise knowledge engineering services, including scaled ontology creation and semantic-layer design. You will lead three core activities and drive high-impact outcomes across clients and internal programs.

You will also defend ontology choices, develop reference architectures, and articulate the business value of semantic layers to senior stakeholders, enabling AI-enabled transformations across industries.