Engineering Industry Leader - Insurance, CMT, or Retail

Position: Knowledge Engineering Industry Leader - Insurance, CMT, or Retail
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The Digital Core Reinvention practice builds industry super-ontologies: industry- and ecosystem-specific agentic AI and data engines that encode how a vertical actually operates — its entities, its regulations, its rhythms — so AI systems can reason inside the industry rather than about it.

You Are:

A rare double profile: deep industry fluency in at least one of insurance, communications & media, or retail, married to real knowledge-engineering craft.

You've sat with the chief underwriting officer and the ontologist and translated between them.

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 the industry digital-brain discipline in your vertical. Concretely, that means three things at once:

You own the methodology.

Industry discovery and baseline, super-ontology design and build, lifecycle management as regulation and markets shift — yours to defend and evolve.

You own the asset portfolio.

The industry ontology itself, the vertical agent patterns, the regulatory hooks — assets that compound engagement over engagement.

You own the technical point of view.

You are the named industry voice — analyst conversations, industry councils, the public argument for encoded industry knowledge as competitive moat.

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 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, per vertical).Working fluency with knowledge graphs, taxonomies, and retrieval-augmented generation

Minimum of 2 years of publishing or speaking publicly on AI in your industry.

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).Professional

Skills Required:

Demonstrated ability to walk into a client executive's office and earn the room on technical depth alone.

A clear, defensible point of view on the current…