Knowledge Engineering Associate Director

What you'll do

• Own the evidence-first discovery methodology and define the scope for archaeology engagements.
• Defend the methodology against technical and business scope drift.
• Manage the archaeology tooling, knowledge graph pipelines, and language-coverage roadmap.
• Decide which assets should be standardized and productized within the portfolio.
• Serve as the public technical voice for the discipline through conference presentations and thought leadership.
• Lead client architecture councils to communicate the necessity of excavation before transformation.
• Oversee the development and commercialization of productized offerings and reusable methodologies.

What we're looking for

• Minimum of 12 years in enterprise software engineering, including significant brownfield modernization at multi-million-LOC scale.
• Minimum of 3 years leading large-scale architectural discovery or modernization engagements as the named technical owner.
• 5+ years of working fluency with knowledge graphs, ontology modeling, data taxonomy, static analysis, dependency analysis, and Git history mining.
• 2+ years of hands-on work with LLM-assisted code analysis.
• Minimum 3 years of experience leading the development, commercialization, or evolution of a productized offering, platform, or reusable methodology.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience; if an Associate's Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience.
• Published or spoken on AI-augmented code analysis, code archaeology, or software architecture recovery (preferred).