Senior Data Architect - Graph Expert

Accenture, recognized as a Great Place To Work®, is a leading global professional services company that helps major businesses, public administrations, and other organizations around the world develop their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth, and improve services for citizens, creating tangible value at speed and scale.

We are looking for experienced Knowledge Graph Engineers to join our Data & AI practice in Spain.
This role is available in Sevilla, Málaga, Alicante, or Gijón and follows a hybrid working model, combining remote work with in-office collaboration to foster innovation, knowledge sharing, and close teamwork.

Candidates must reside in Spain and hold a valid permit to work in Spain.

YOU ARE

You lead the complete knowledge engineering scope on our most strategic and complex programs; lead creation of thought leadership, innovation, and assets for the discipline. You own how the most demanding programs formulate real-world problems into scalable AI and KG solutions, setting strategy and architecture end to end. You lead and develop teams of engineers, building capability across the discipline and guiding adoption of new methods and algorithms. You define what staying at the forefront means for the practice; drive innovation and translate it into new offerings. You set the standards for how ontologies are designed, evaluated, and maintained across programs. You make the case to senior stakeholders and shape the methodologies and data architectures that prove value at scale. You lead the creation of thought leadership, innovation, and reusable assets that advance the discipline beyond any single engagement. You partner with business and technical leaders to direct end-to-end delivery across complex, multi-stakeholder programs

THE WORK

• Lead the complete Knowledge Graph solution scope that transforms data architecture for our most strategic and complex clients.

• Own the design, development, and implementation of AI and semantic solutions across the program.

• Partner with project leaders, delivery leads, and senior client stakeholders to create stand-out, graph-powered offerings.

• Develop trusted-advisor relationships with senior client stakeholders.

• Make and defend the business case for the semantic layer solution at the executive level.

• Lead Accenture sales and pre-sales efforts and shape data transformation programs.

• Drive the practice's thought leadership, innovation, and asset development on trends and agentic technologies, and develop the teams who deliver them.

EDUCATION

• MSc or BSc in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or a related field.

BASIC (REQUIRED) QUALIFICATION

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, plus all of the following:

• Proven experience with Knowledge Graph technologies (RDF, SPARQL, LPG, SHACL)

• Ample experience in schema design, ontology management, and KG curation

• Hands-on xperience designing and developing KG solutions and graph-based ML models (functional + technical)

• Experience with end-to-end data pipeline implementations for AI applications (esp. LLMs), with hands-on design and configuration

• Strong knowledge of relational databases, object stores, graph databases (Stardog, Neo4J, Amazon Neptune), and vector databases

• Managerial experience leading people, able to explain the value of the semantic layer and knowledge graphs to senior business and technology stakeholders, with a proven track record in sales and/or pre-sales and in delivering data transformation programs and developing teams
• Fluency in Spanish and a high level of English (B2 - C1)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATION 

• Experience in Practical experience with NLP techniques and/or Search Techniques, prompt engineering

• Experience with LLMs for enterprise-scale applications.

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Experience in Python, with experience in frameworks like Tensorflow, PyTorch, and tools for building ETL pipelines (e.g. Apache NiFi, Airflow)

• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work across engineering, research, and product teams across multiple time zones.

• You have external client-facing consulting experience

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

• Broad experience in diverse ML techniques and agentic systems.

At Accenture, recognized as a Great Place To Work®, we are committed to a hybrid work model that, supported by technology and our office spaces, enables us to maintain the essential human connection needed to collaborate effectively with our teams and clients. This connection helps us foster our culture of inclusion and diversity and has contributed to being recognized by Refinitiv as one of the world's most diverse companies.

In addition, we offer:

• Private medical, life, and accident insurance.
• Medical services and wellbeing programs.
• Flexible benefits program and employee share purchase plan.
• Flexible working arrangements (working hours, additional leave days, vacation options, and more).
• Personalized learning and career development paths.
• Sustainability initiatives and opportunities to participate in the Accenture Foundation.
• Employee diversity and inclusion networks.
• Additional benefits, including special banking conditions through our Bankinter office and profit-sharing programs.

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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