Strategic Knowledge Graph Architect & Ontology Lead

Accenture; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 357,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Senior Ontologist and Knowledge Architecture Lead to drive enterprise ontology strategy and governance. You will guide semantic modeling, tooling selection, and cross‑functional delivery across business, data engineering, and AI/ML teams.

You will lead ontology design, mapping, validation, and alignment with business goals while advancing governance standards and patterns for organization‑wide reuse.

Qualifications

• Minimum 12 years hands‑on ontology engineering or knowledge modeling.
• Experience delivering production‑grade ontologies in enterprise settings.
• Lead, architect‑level experience with standards, teams, and roadmaps.
• Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in Information Science, CS, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Own ontology lifecycle from requirements to long‑term stewardship.
• Define enterprise ontology architecture and URI/versioning strategies.
• Lead domain alignment and governance across teams and data sources.
• Oversee knowledge graph hydration, validation, and deployment pipelines.
• Collaborate with NLP/AI to guide feature engineering and integration.

Skills

Ontology governance

Semantic modeling

Team leadership

Stakeholder communication

Enterprise architecture

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Information Science or CS

Tools

OWL/RDF/SKOS

Triplestore platforms

R2RML/RML

NLP/AI integration tooling

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Senior Ontologist and Knowledge Architecture Lead to drive enterprise ontology strategy and governance. You will guide semantic modeling, tooling selection, and cross‑functional delivery across business, data engineering, and AI/ML teams.

You will lead ontology design, mapping, validation, and alignment with business goals while advancing governance standards and patterns for organization‑wide reuse.