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We believe how you lead is as important as what you deliver. Cognizant leaders at every level: Drive our business strategy and inspire teams around our future. Live the leadership behaviors, leading themselves, others and the business. Uphold our Values, role modeling them in every action and decision. Nurture our people and culture, creating a workplace where all can thrive. This includes leading with strategic ability, architecting client value, driving AI-led innovation, executing with discipline, building a collaborative ecosystem, and amplifying human potential.\nAt Cognizant, leadership transcends titles and is embodied in actions and behaviors. We empower our leaders at every level to drive business strategy, inspire teams, uphold our values, and foster an inclusive culture.\nAbout the role\nAs an AI Chief Architect (f/d/m), you will make an impact by shaping Cognizant's AI portfolio-designing high-impact AI use cases, building compelling value propositions, and enabling early-stage client engagement that transforms opportunity spaces into structured, scalable, commercially strong AI offerings that drive growth for the AI Market Unit. You will be a valued member of the AI Market Unit team and work collaboratively with clients, sales teams, consulting, pre-sales specialists, ecosystem leaders, service line and business unit heads, and external technology and business leaders.\nIn this role, you will\nOwn the conceptual and architectural design for prioritized AI use cases and offerings, translating business problems, industry signals, and AI capabilities into structured solution blueprints and compelling narratives.\nBuild business value frameworks, impact models, ROI frameworks, and client-ready points of view, and create reusable offering assets such as pitch decks, one-pagers, demo scripts, and solution differentiators.\nPartner with clients, sales, consulting, and pre-sales teams in early discovery phases, leading ideation sessions and offering walkthroughs to surface use cases and refine solution approaches.\nOwn AI offering portfolio inputs-prioritization, roadmap, investment inputs, GTM readiness criteria, and pricing and sales-kit approval-while remaining accountable for offering lifecycle performance across revenue, adoption, and renewals.\nInfluence GTM and market positioning, field enablement through playbooks and value-selling tools, and engineering decisions that ensure offerings are scalable and deployment ready.\nConsistently demonstrate the Cognizant Way to Lead through strategic agility, client value creation, AI-led innovation, disciplined execution, collaborative ecosystem building and amplifying human potential through a culture of growth, inclusion and effective human-AI collaboration.\nWork model\nAt Cognizant, we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role's business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in Frankfurt, Germany. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.\nThe working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.\nWhat you need to have to be considered\nSignificant direct experience in consulting, solution design, digital/AI strategy, or product/experience design, with a proven ability to frame business problems and structure AI or digital solutions.\nExposure to AI platforms, GenAI toolchains, and industry-specific AI use cases, paired with an understanding of AI/ML concepts at a business-technical level.\nStrong commercial acumen and the ability to tie technology to measurable business value.\nDemonstrated stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration across sales, engineering, consulting, and product teams.\nAn architecture certification such as TOGAF or similar.\nDemonstrated ability to lead with strategic vision, client-centric thinking, innovation, disciplined execution, collaboration and a commitment to developing people in line with the Cognizant Way to Lead.\nProven track record of building trust, demonstrating ownership, exercising sound judgment and fostering an inclusive culture that supports growth and associate success.\nThese will help you stand out\nStrong conceptual and structured problem-solving skills, with the ability to blueprint solutions and articulate complex ideas simply.\nBusiness storytelling and narrative building for executive audiences.\nKnowledge of the German language (B2+ level).\nExperience thriving in complex, fast-evolving environments by translating strategy into action, fostering cross-functional collaboration and championing continuous learning and curiosity.\nWe're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. 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