Senior Knowledge-Engineering Architect — Insurance or Retail

Accenture PLC; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 434,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an Associate Director to own the industry digital-brain discipline within their vertical. You will lead three areas: industry discovery and baseline, ontology design, and lifecycle management as regulations and markets shift.

You will defend and evolve the framework and serve as the industry voice in executive discussions. This senior technical track favors individuals who value methodology over mere delivery, with travel as needed and a strong record of productized

Qualifications

• Minimum of 12 years in your industry, with at least 3 years translating domain knowledge into data products, ontologies, or AI use cases.
• Minimum of 5 years working alongside industry clients at the executive level (CTO / CDO / chief underwriting / chief merchandising).
• Working fluency with knowledge graphs, taxonomies, and retrieval-augmented generation.

Responsibilities

• Industry discovery and baseline, super-ontology design and build, lifecycle management as regulation and markets shift—yours to defend and evolve.
• The industry ontology itself, the vertical agent patterns, the regulatory hooks—assets that compound engagement over engagement.
• You are the named industry voice—analyst conversations, industry councils, the public argument for encoded industry knowledge as competitive moat.

Skills

Knowledge graphs

Ontologies

Executive-level client work

AI use cases

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Accenture is seeking an Associate Director to own the industry digital-brain discipline within their vertical. You will lead three areas: industry discovery and baseline, ontology design, and lifecycle management as regulations and markets shift.

You will defend and evolve the framework and serve as the industry voice in executive discussions. This senior technical track favors individuals who value methodology over mere delivery, with travel as needed and a strong record of productized