Senior Knowledge Graph Architect AI-Ready Ontologies Remote

Cognizant; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan & contributions

Disability insurance (long/short-term)

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Senior Knowledge Graph & Ontology Architect to design and govern enterprise semantic architectures that power AI-ready knowledge systems.

You will collaborate with data architects, engineers, domain experts, AI specialists, and client stakeholders to establish the semantic foundation that powers enterprise knowledge graphs, search, analytics, and agentic AI solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data or ontology architecture with leadership in ontology design.
• Hands-on OWL/RDF ontology development and SHACL constraint authoring.
• Experience building graph-based knowledge systems with major platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and govern enterprise ontologies, semantic models, and knowledge graphs.
• Lead business domain models and governed vocabularies across entities.
• Define governance processes, glossaries, KPI registries, and change workflows.
• Architect graph platforms using Neo4j, Neptune, TigerGraph, GraphDB, and more.
• Collaborate with engineering, AI, and platform teams to ensure scalable, trustworthy solutions.

Skills

Python

SQL

Ontology development

Knowledge graph

SHACL

Graph databases

GCP BigQuery

Data governance

Tools

Neo4j

Amazon Neptune

TigerGraph

GraphDB

Stardog

Apache Jena

Spanner Graph

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Senior Knowledge Graph & Ontology Architect to design and govern enterprise semantic architectures that power AI-ready knowledge systems.

You will collaborate with data architects, engineers, domain experts, AI specialists, and client stakeholders to establish the semantic foundation that powers enterprise knowledge graphs, search, analytics, and agentic AI solutions.