About the Role
This Senior Manager will serve as a strategic leader for EY FSO’s enterprise knowledge transformation agenda, shaping how the firm captures, structures, governs, and scales proprietary knowledge across service lines. This role will provide vision and execution leadership for the design, implementation, productization, and adoption of ontology and knowledge graph capabilities that enable EY to move from siloed and localized know-how to scalable, reusable, machine-readable knowledge systems.
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end design, build-out, implementation, productization, and scaling of EY FSO’s ontology and knowledge graph capabilities.
- Transform how EY FSO captures, structures, encodes, governs, maintains, and distributes proprietary knowledge across service lines.
- Define and deliver an enterprise ontology strategy that connects information, expertise, methodologies, data, workflows, source-of-truth structures, and insights across the FSO organization.
- Design structured, interoperable, and machine-readable knowledge systems that support knowledge discovery, information extraction, semantic search, AI enablement, workflow standardization, and decision-making at scale.
- Define and lead the vision, objectives, scope, roadmap, governance model, delivery approach, success measures, and adoption strategy for EY's ontology-enabled knowledge transformation agenda.
- Lead teams in the design, implementation, productization, and scaling of enterprise knowledge graphs, ontologies, taxonomies, semantic models, source-of-truth structures, and structured knowledge systems.
- Translate complex, fragmented, and inconsistent business knowledge into scalable ontological models.
- Establish standards, naming conventions, quality controls, workflows, governance forums, lifecycle management practices, stewardship models, and operating practices for knowledge management.
- Work across service lines and functions to connect siloed information, align competing priorities, identify dependencies, and create consistent ways of working.
- Manage senior stakeholders across business, technology, legal, risk, compliance, operations, and client-facing teams.
- Build, manage, develop, and mentor multidisciplinary teams responsible for ontology, knowledge modeling, information architecture, information extraction, workflow design, governance, product delivery, adoption, and implementation.
- Support digital transformation by helping EY leaders and teams understand, adopt, and apply ontology, knowledge graphs, AI, and structured knowledge systems at scale.
- Report progress, risks, blockers, adoption, product maturity, and measurable impact to senior leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Data Science, Knowledge Management, Engineering, Business, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
- 12+ years of related experience, or 9+ years with a graduate degree, including significant experience leading complex transformation initiatives in large, matrixed organizations.
- Proven track record designing, implementing, and scaling ontology, knowledge graph, semantic modeling, or structured knowledge management solutions.
- Deep expertise in knowledge representation, metadata, and information architecture.
- Experience defining governance models, standards, workflows, quality controls, stewardship practices, operating models, and adoption approaches across multiple teams, functions, or business units.
- Proven ability to manage senior stakeholders, influence across a matrixed organization, and align competing priorities.
- Experience leading and developing multidisciplinary teams, including coaching, mentoring, upskilling, prioritizing work, managing delivery, and creating accountability for measurable outcomes.
- Ability to translate complex ontology, data, AI, and knowledge management concepts into clear business language, executive narratives, implementation plans, and business impact.
- Experience operating in regulated, controlled, and fast-changing environments with ambiguity, blockers, inconsistent information, red tape, and competing priorities.
- Ability and willingness to travel and work outside standard hours when necessary.
- Prior consulting experience is ideal.
Skills
- Ontology
- Knowledge Graphs
- Semantic Modeling
- Information Architecture
- Structured Knowledge Representation
- Graph Theory
- Metadata
- AI Enablement
- Semantic Search
- Workflow Standardization
- Change Leadership
- Team Building
- Stakeholder Management
- Organizational Complexity Navigation
Location
- US
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
- 12+ years of related experience
- 9+ years with a graduate degree
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Data Science, Knowledge Management, Engineering, Business, or a related field
- Advanced degree preferred
Salary/Compensations
- The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $144,000 to $329,100.
- The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $172,800 to $374,000.
Benefits
- Medical and dental coverage
- Pension and 401(k) plans
- Wide range of paid time off options
- Flexible vacation policy
- Time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence
About the Company
- EY is the only professional services firm with a separate business unit (“FSO”) that is dedicated to the financial services marketplace.
- EY teams have been at the forefront of every event that has reshaped and redefined the financial services industry.
- EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.
- Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.
- EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions.
- Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.
Equal Opportunity
- EY provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, including arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable law.
- EY is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities including veterans with disabilities.
