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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Knowledge Engineer

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

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 five years of overall experience.
  • At least two years of experience with knowledge graph technologies, including RDF, SPARQL, LPG, SHACL, OWL, graph query languages, schema design, ontology management, and knowledge graph curation.
  • At least two years of experience in schema design, ontology management, semantic modeling, taxonomy management, metadata management, and knowledge graph curation.
  • At least two years designing and developing knowledge graph solutions and graph-based machine learning models across functional and technical contexts.
  • At least one year of experience implementing end-to-end data pipelines for AI applications, especially LLM-enabled or enterprise knowledge applications, including hands-on design and configuration.
  • At least two years of experience with relational databases, object stores, graph databases such as Stardog, Neo4j, Amazon Neptune or equivalent, and vector databases.
  • Hands-on experience building Databricks-enabled knowledge engineering solutions using Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Databricks SQL, Workflows, MLflow, notebooks, jobs, Feature Engineering, Vector Search, Model Serving, APIs, and cloud storage integrations.
  • At least two years of experience with Python, SQL, and Spark/PySpark, and tools or frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, SPARQL, SHACL, Apache Airflow, Apache NiFi, APIs, and ETL pipeline development.
  • Practical experience with natural language processing and/or search techniques, prompt engineering, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, semantic search, and enterprise-scale AI application patterns.
  • Ability to formulate real-world problems into practical, efficient, and scalable AI and knowledge graph solution components on the lakehouse.
  • Industry experience applying Databricks-enabled knowledge engineering solutions in banking, insurance, healthcare, retail, communications, manufacturing, energy, public services, life sciences, or another relevant domain.
  • Ability to build Databricks-based components for semantic layer, ontology, graph, vector search, search, retrieval, and LLM grounding use cases.
  • Ability to work hands-on as an individual contributor while collaborating across project teams and delivery workstreams.
Responsibilities
  • Build Databricks-based knowledge engineering components using Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Databricks SQL, Workflows, MLflow, notebooks, jobs, Feature Engineering, Vector Search, Model Serving, APIs, and cloud storage integrations.
  • Implement lakehouse graph ingestion, ontology and schema pipelines, semantic data products, vector and search integrations, LLM grounding layers, and governed access patterns on Databricks.
  • Build knowledge graph components that contribute to transforming a client's data architecture.
  • Design, develop, configure, test, and implement AI and semantic solutions that integrate with the broader enterprise system.
  • Work with project teams, delivery leads, engineers, architects, users, use case representatives, and UI designers to deliver assigned components of an end-to-end solution.
  • Build working relationships with client counterparts on the workstream and communicate implementation progress, risks, dependencies, and technical findings.
  • Assemble supporting evidence for recommended semantic layer solutions, including design rationale, implementation notes, validation inputs, data quality observations, and test outcomes.
  • Provide technical inputs or implementation examples for sales, solutioning, demos, accelerators, or reusable assets when called upon.
  • Design, evaluate, maintain, and deploy ontologies, schemas, mappings, graph data models, metadata structures, validation rules, and knowledge graph components as needed.
  • Continue developing skills in data and AI solutions, especially agentic technologies, generative AI, LLMs, multimodal models, semantic search, graph RAG, and knowledge graph approaches.
  • Share learnings with the team and help junior engineers understand practical development patterns, engineering standards, and knowledge graph implementation practices.
Desired Qualifications
  • At least two years of hands-on experience with cloud and data platforms, Databricks specialization, and exposure to AWS, Azure, or GCP in multi-cloud environments.
  • Databricks certification or hands-on project experience in data engineering, machine learning, lakehouse architecture, or platform engineering.
  • Team lead exposure or readiness to guide junior engineers on project tasks.
  • External client-facing consulting experience, including working with client stakeholders, delivery teams, or solutioning teams.
  • Broad experience in diverse machine learning techniques, graph RAG, agentic systems, semantic search, entity resolution, multimodal models, explainable AI, and responsible AI practices.
  • Experience building reusable code components, implementation templates, design notes, demos, proof-of-concept assets, runbooks, or enablement material.

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

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