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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Knowledge Engineer

Full-Time
No salary listed
Senior
Bachelor's, Master's, PhD
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
In Person
Data & AnalyticsData Management

About the job

Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, or a related field.
  • At least 3 years of experience with Knowledge Graph technologies such as Resource Description Framework, SPARQL, LPG, SHACL, OWL, graph query languages, schema design, ontology management, and knowledge graph curation.
  • At least 3 years of experience in schema design, ontology management, semantic modeling, taxonomy management, metadata management, and knowledge graph curation.
  • At least 3 years of experience designing and developing Knowledge Graph solutions and graph-based machine learning models across functional and technical workstreams.
  • At least 2 years of experience implementing end-to-end data pipelines for artificial intelligence applications, especially large language model-enabled or enterprise knowledge applications, with hands-on design and configuration.
  • At least 4 years of experience with relational databases, object stores, graph databases such as Stardog, Neo4j, Amazon Neptune or equivalent, and vector databases.
  • At least 2 years of experience leading a team or workstream within a larger program.
  • Experience collaborating with engineering, research, product, domain, client-facing, and cross-functional teams across multiple time zones.
  • Hands-on experience building AWS-based knowledge engineering solutions with Amazon Neptune, S3, Glue, Lambda, EMR, Redshift, Athena, OpenSearch, Bedrock, SageMaker, IAM, Step Functions, and cloud-native APIs and monitoring services.
  • Strong Python experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch, PySpark, SQL, SPARQL, SHACL, Apache Airflow, Apache NiFi, and ETL/ELT pipeline tooling.
  • Practical knowledge of natural language processing and search techniques, including entity extraction, entity resolution, semantic search, prompt engineering, large language model grounding, and enterprise-scale large language model applications.
  • Ability to design and implement scalable graph ingestion, ontology and schema pipelines, semantic layers, vector search and retrieval patterns, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and governed knowledge services.
  • Strong collaboration, technical leadership, delivery ownership, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.
Responsibilities
  • Design and structure knowledge frameworks that enable artificial intelligence systems to reason and make informed decisions.
  • Capture and translate expert and unstructured knowledge into ontologies, knowledge graphs, and semantic models, ensuring accuracy and context for automation and insights.
  • Apply advanced analytics on knowledge graphs to drive problem-solving and actionable insights.
  • Engineer AWS-based knowledge engineering solutions using services such as Amazon Neptune, S3, Glue, Lambda, EMR, Redshift, Athena, OpenSearch, Bedrock, SageMaker, IAM, Step Functions, APIs, and monitoring and security services.
  • Build graph ingestion pipelines, semantic data products, vector integrations, large language model grounding layers, APIs, and governed access patterns on AWS while improving performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
  • Lead the build of Knowledge Graph solutions that transform client data architecture within a large program scope.
  • Direct the design, development, and implementation of artificial intelligence, semantic layer, ontology, taxonomy, schema, graph modeling, and knowledge curation solutions, ensuring all components work together seamlessly.
  • Work with project leaders, delivery leads, client stakeholders, architects, data engineers, artificial intelligence engineers, product teams, and domain subject-matter experts to create graph-powered data and artificial intelligence offerings.
  • Develop client relationships, earn trust as a key advisor, and explain the business value of semantic layer, ontology, and knowledge graph solutions.
  • Make the business case for the recommended semantic layer solution and contribute to sales, pre-sales, estimation, proposal inputs, and solution-shaping activities.
  • Provide thought leadership on technology trends, innovation opportunities, limitations, risks, delivery concerns, and practical adoption of knowledge graphs, semantic artificial intelligence, large language model grounding, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic systems.
  • Design, evaluate, and maintain ontologies, schemas, standards, and reusable engineering patterns, while guiding teams on data model quality and implementation methods.
  • Lead a team or workstream within a larger program, mentor engineers, review design, code, and configuration, and guide adoption of new methodologies, model-building techniques, and algorithms.
  • Collaborate across business and technical teams to drive end-to-end delivery for the assigned scope and demonstrate value to business and technology stakeholders.
Desired Qualifications
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, with AWS specialization and exposure to Azure or Google Cloud Platform in multi-cloud environments.
  • AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect, Data Engineer, Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence Specialty, or related credentials.
  • Industry experience in banking, financial services and insurance, healthcare, retail, telecommunications, manufacturing, energy, public sector, or life sciences, including domain ontologies, data models, compliance needs, and knowledge-driven use cases.
  • External client-facing consulting experience, proposal support, solution shaping, or pre-sales exposure.
  • An advanced degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline, with broad exposure to diverse machine learning techniques and agentic systems.

About the company

Accenture advises large businesses and public agencies on strategy, builds their technology systems and runs ongoing operations. Its teams connect business planning with implementation, covering areas such as cloud migration, cybersecurity and customer experience. Consultants work with clients to redesign processes, while engineers integrate software from technology partners and maintain the resulting systems for multinational organizations. Clients pay for project work or continuing services, including application support and business processes such as finance and customer service. Accenture was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Dublin, Ireland

Founded

1989

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Professional Development Budget
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match

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