Senior Knowledge Engineer & Ontology Lead

Accenture PLC; Overland Park (KS); On-site; USD 151,000 - 375,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an Associate Director to lead enterprise knowledge engineering services, owning scaled ontology creation and semantic-layer strategies. You will defend design choices with executives and guide architecture across campaigns.

Join a senior technical track where you own methodology, drive AI-enabled knowledge solutions, and mentor teams while engaging with CFOs and architects to articulate value.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in knowledge engineering or related data disciplines.
• At least 2 years of AI/LLM-based work.
• 6+ years with knowledge-graph technologies and enterprise graph databases.
• 6+ years of managerial or discipline-leadership experience.
• 2+ years publishing or speaking publicly in the discipline.
• 3+ years owning a productized offering, platform, or methodology.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (min 12 years) work experience.

Responsibilities

• Scaled ontology creation, semantic-layer design, knowledge-agent patterns.
• Ontology templates, entity-resolution patterns, semantic serving reference architectures.
• Explain the value of the semantic layer to a CFO and defend decisions to an architect.

Skills

Ontology design

Knowledge engineering

AI/LLM-based work

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

RDF

SPARQL

SHACL

Property graphs

Job description

Accenture is seeking an Associate Director to lead enterprise knowledge engineering services, owning scaled ontology creation and semantic-layer strategies. You will defend design choices with executives and guide architecture across campaigns.

Join a senior technical track where you own methodology, drive AI-enabled knowledge solutions, and mentor teams while engaging with CFOs and architects to articulate value.