Knowledge Engineer

Associated Bank is hiring a Knowledge Engineer to build shared data definitions and semantic models across the organization. The role partners with business and technology teams to advance data governance, decision-making, enterprise data strategy, and AI capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Develop enterprise semantic models, ontologies, taxonomies, and knowledge graph structures that create consistent business meaning across data domains
• Define and maintain enterprise business concepts, metadata standards, and data relationships to support governance and regulatory compliance
• Align data from multiple systems by mapping technical data to shared business definitions and reusable semantic standards
• Partner with data architecture, engineering, governance, AI, and business teams to translate business needs into scalable semantic solutions
• Enable advanced data discovery and analytics by applying semantic web standards, graph technologies, and knowledge modeling practices
• Support AI-ready data capabilities by designing semantic frameworks that improve context, search, and knowledge-driven insights
• Promote enterprise data consistency by advancing metadata, lineage, and governance best practices across the organization
• Fully complies with all applicable enterprise policies and procedures
• Acts in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in training materials, including but not limited to Bank Secrecy Act
• Responsible for reporting suspicious activity to Financial Intelligence
• Responsible to report all customer complaints as prescribed and procedure violations to management or HR
• Responsible to report ethical concerns as needed to Associated Bank’s anonymous Ethics Hotline

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Knowledge Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• 3+ years of experience with semantic technologies, data modeling, knowledge representation, graph databases, and semantic web standards
• 3+ years of experience working with modern data platforms and collaborating across data architecture, engineering, and governance teams to deliver enterprise data solutions
• Bachelor's degree in Data Science or a related discipline
• 1+ years of experience implementing or managing enterprise knowledge graph platforms or semantic technologies
• 1+ years of experience supporting enterprise data governance, metadata management, lineage, and data quality initiatives
• Neo4j Certified Professional certification
• SnowPro Advanced certification