Knowledge Engineer

About the Position

Knowledge Engineer

Join the Centre for Advanced Data (C4AD) at Accenture as a Knowledge Engineer. You will be responsible for owning ontology and semantic strategy across engagements, setting the knowledge-engineering standards for the practice, and assuring the semantic layers that ground enterprise AI.

Responsibilities

• Own ontology and semantic strategy across C4AD engagements, setting the approach, standards, and quality bar for knowledge engineering across the practice.
• Assure semantic layers that ground enterprise AI, reviewing, governing, and signing off on the ontological structures that AI systems in our programmes reason over.
• Design, develop, and govern enterprise ontologies, taxonomies, and knowledge graphs that accurately represent business domains, their relationships, and the rules that govern them.
• Build and govern semantic models using RDF/OWL, SHACL, and SPARQL, and property graph approaches using platforms such as Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, or Stardog.
• Apply and adapt industry-standard ontologies (e.g. FIBO, BIAN, GS1, TM Forum) to meet organisation-specific semantic requirements.
• Develop and enforce semantic modelling standards, naming conventions, versioning, and curation workflows, and drive adoption of those standards across delivery teams.
• Enable AI and ML applications through knowledge graph enrichment, entity resolution, semantic search, and ontology-powered RAG pipelines.
• Engage business SMEs and domain experts to elicit and formalise implicit business rules, relationships, and concepts into explicit ontological structures.

Requirements

• Core Skills:
  • 5+ years of experience in knowledge engineering, ontology design, or semantic modelling, with a track record of owning the knowledge engineering approach on complex programmes, not just contributing to it.
  • Proven deep expertise in ontology engineering, authoring OWL ontologies, RDFS schemas, SHACL constraint shapes, and SPARQL queries, with real enterprise delivery behind it.
  • Hands-on experience with graph databases and knowledge graph platforms such as Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, Stardog, or GraphDB.
  • Proficiency with semantic tooling including Protégé, TopBraid Composer, or equivalent ontology authoring environments.
  • Strong understanding of how semantic models connect to downstream data products, metadata catalogues, and AI/ML enrichment workflows, and the ability to assure that integration is sound.
  • Knowledge of property graph modelling and the ability to move between RDF-based and property graph paradigms depending on platform and use case.
  • Experience with entity resolution, semantic search, and knowledge-driven RAG architectures.
  • Experience working within modern data architectures including data mesh, data lakehouse, and federated governance models.
  • Background in linked data principles (W3C standards) and LLM grounding techniques, including GraphRAG and ontology-grounded generation, and practical experience applying them in enterprise contexts.
  • Industry experience in Financial Services, Government, Health, Energy, or Utilities sectors in APAC is highly regarded.
• Secondary Skills:
  • Good communication skills with the ability to engage both technical teams and business SMEs.

We Offer

• 18 weeks paid parental leave
• Long & short-term career break opportunities
• Structured career development program
• Local and international career opportunities
• Certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace™
• Flexible Work Arrangements - centered around Accenture’s Truly Human ethos and our commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our people
• We are proud to be in the top 3 of last year’s Diversity & Inclusion Index!

About the Company

At Accenture, we recognise that our people are multi-dimensional, and we create a work environment where all people feel like they can bring their authentic selves to work, every day. Our unwavering commitment to inclusion and diversity unleashes innovation and creates a culture where everyone feels they have equal opportunity. Our range of progressive policies support flexibility in ‘where’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ our people work to ensure that Accenture is an organisation where you can strive for more, achieve great things and maintain the balance and wellbeing you need.

We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have a preferred communication method, please email [email protected] and cite the relevant Job Number, or contact us on +61 2 9005 5000.

Locations:

• Melbourne, Australia
• Sydney, Australia

Employment Type:

• Full-time

Experience Level:

• Senior

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At Accenture, we recognise that our people are multi-dimensional, and we create a work environment where all people feel like they can bring their authentic selves to work, every day.

Our unwavering commitment to inclusion and diversity unleashes innovation and creates a culture where everyone feels they have equal opportunity. Our range of progressive policies support flexibility in ‘where’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ our people work to ensure that Accenture is an organisation where you can strive for more, achieve great things and maintain the balance and wellbeing you need.

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