Senior Knowledge Engineer & Ontology Leader

Accenture PLC; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 163,000 - 375,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an Associate Director to own our enterprise knowledge engineering services, leading scaled ontology creation, semantic-layer design, and knowledge-agent patterns to defend and evolve the approach with senior stakeholders.

The role requires 10+ years in knowledge engineering and 6+ years with graph tech, plus leadership and productization experience. Travel may be required as part of client engagements.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years in knowledge engineering, semantic web, ontology design, or adjacent data disciplines, with at least 2 years specifically on AI/LLM-based work.
• Minimum of 6 years with knowledge-graph technologies (RDF, SPARQL, SHACL, property graphs) and enterprise graph databases.
• Minimum of 6 years of managerial or discipline-leadership experience, able to explain the value of the semantic layer to senior stakeholders (per the W16 scaffold for this family).
• Minimum of 2 years of publishing or speaking publicly in the discipline.
• Minimum of 3 years owning a productized offering, platform, or methodology — not just consulting within one.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate's Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience).

Responsibilities

• Scaled ontology creation, semantic-layer design, knowledge-agent patterns — yours to defend, evolve, and sign off on, including the boundary with problem-scoped ontology work (build the ontology here; wield it there).
• Ontology templates, entity-resolution patterns, semantic serving reference architectures — every engagement consumes or produces one.
• You can explain the value of the semantic layer to a CFO and defend an OWL modeling decision to an architect in the same meeting — and the market hears the argument from you.

Skills

Knowledge engineering

Semantic web

Ontology design

AI/LLM experience

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

RDF

SPARQL

SHACL

Graph databases

Job description

Accenture is seeking an Associate Director to own our enterprise knowledge engineering services, leading scaled ontology creation, semantic-layer design, and knowledge-agent patterns to defend and evolve the approach with senior stakeholders.

The role requires 10+ years in knowledge engineering and 6+ years with graph tech, plus leadership and productization experience. Travel may be required as part of client engagements.