Engineering Associate Director

Position: Knowledge Engineering Associate Director
About Accenture:

Accenture helps the world's leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world.

We bring together the talent of our approximately 814,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes ough our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology.

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Accenture is recognized as a global leader in AI and cloud transformation, helping businesses across industries reimagine the digital core for an AI-native operating model. Through partnerships with frontier AI labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI, and the leading cloud providers, Accenture delivers end-to-end services that drive innovation and business agility.

The Digital Core Reinvention practice builds the enterprise ontology — the semantic layer that turns raw data into contextualized enterprise knowledge, and the knowledge agents that maintain, evolve, and query it. Where our problem-scoped ontology work wields meaning against a single problem, this discipline builds the meaning the whole enterprise stands on.

You Are:

A senior knowledge engineer ready to own the discipline: scaled ontology creation, the semantic layer, and the public technical argument for why AI without engineered meaning is guesswork.

This is the senior technical track at Accenture: we hire people here who would rather own a methodology than carry a number.

The Work:

As an Associate Director in this family you are the technical owner of our enterprise knowledge engineering services. Concretely, that means three things at once:

You own the methodology.

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).You own the asset portfolio.

Ontology templates, entity-resolution patterns, semantic serving reference architectures — every engagement consumes or produces one.

You own the technical point of view.

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.

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Here's what you need:

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…