Technology R&D Associate Manager

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You Are

As a Technology R&D Associate Manager, you formulate real-world problems into practical, efficient, and scalable AI and Knowledge Graph problems.

• You lead a team and provide guidance to explore and implement new methodologies, model building techniques, and cutting-edge algorithms, and applying these techniques with the right architecture to solve real-world problems.
• You have a deep understanding and ability to remain at the forefront of knowledge engineering, generative AI, LLM, and multi-modal models (with a focus on driving innovation by applying these techniques to new business problems, use cases, and scenarios).
• As needed by the specific problem, you design, evaluate, and maintain ontologies.
• As a significant part of this role, you will be justifying the value of innovative generative AI and knowledge graph approaches in the business problems, and you'll be expected to construct methodologies and data architectures that clearly demonstrate their value.
• You'll also work collaboratively with teams from both the business and technical side, including users, use case representatives, business owners, engineers, architects, and UI designers, to achieve end-to-end project development goals.

The Work:

• Build Knowledge Graph solutions that transform clients data architecture.
• Design, develop, and implement AI and semantic solutions and ensure that all the pieces work together seamlessly
• Work with the project team, team leaders, project delivery leads, and client stakeholders to create stand-out Data & AI offerings powered by graph-based technologies
• Develop strong relationships with clients and gain the trust of key advisors
• Make the business case for the semantic layer solution recommended to the client
• Pitch in on Accenture sales efforts when needed
• Continue to learn and develop cutting edge Data & AI solutions, especially agentic technologies, provide through leadership on technology trends, new opportunities and innovations, or foreseeable limitations, risks, and concerns

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 4 years of experience in designing and developing knowledge graph solutions and graph-based machine learning models, functional and technical experience required.
• Minimum of 1 end-to-end data pipeline implementation for AI applications, particularly those involving LLMs or similar models, including hands-on design and configuration

• Professionals in this position should have minimum of 4-years of deep knowledge of semantic web technologies and configuration expertise in software engineering including but not limited to:
  • Strong knowledge of relational databases, object stores, graph databases (e.g. Stardog, Neo4J, Amazon Neptune), and vector databases.
  • Experience in Knowledge Graph technologies (e.g. RDF, SPARQL, LPG, SHACL)
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Proficiency in Python, with experience in frameworks like Tensorflow, PyTorch, and tools for building ETL pipelines (e.g. Apache NiFi, Airflow)
  • Practical experience with NLP techniques, prompt engineering, and LLMs for enterprise-scale applications.
  • Knowledge of schema design, ontology management, and Knowledge Graph curation.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associates Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

Bonus Points If:

• You have team lead experience
• 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.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New York or Washington as set forth below.
We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $73,800 to $220,400

Colorado $73,800 to $190,400

District of Columbia $78,500 to $202,700

Illinois $68,300 to $190,400

Minnesota $73,800 to $190,400

Maryland $68,300 to $176,300

New York $68,300 to $220,400

Washington $78,500 to $202,700

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