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You will help shape how large enterprises move beyond experimentation to build, deploy, and govern intelligent systems at scale, sitting at the center of Cognizant's three-vector AI strategy. You will be a valued member of the AI, Integration & Process Platforms team and work collaboratively with business stakeholders, product owners, data scientists, engineers, and security teams.\nIn this role, you will\nArchitect end-to-end Agentic and Generative AI solutions, including multi-agent systems for autonomous task planning, execution, reflection, and escalation, along with LLM selection, agent orchestration, memory, tools, data ingestion, vector stores, RAG, APIs, and integration layers.\nEmbed Responsible AI principles such as fairness, explainability, transparency, human oversight, blast-radius controls, and kill-switch mechanisms, while ensuring compliance with AI governance standards, enterprise security policies, and regulatory frameworks.\nTranslate business use cases into AI solution blueprints, reference architectures, and implementation roadmaps, and provide technical leadership to delivery teams across PoCs, pilots, and production deployments.\nSupport pre-sales, RFPs, solutioning, and deal credentialization by articulating Agentic AI value propositions to business, technical, and executive audiences.\nDrive thought leadership and innovation by staying current with Generative AI and Agentic AI advancements, contributing to internal accelerators and reusable assets, and mentoring architects and engineering teams on GenAI and agent-based system design.\nWork model\nAt Cognizant, we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role's business requirements, this is a remote position open to qualified applicants in the United States. 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 you're engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.\nWhat you need to have to be considered\n10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, frontier engineering, AI engineering, or related technology leadership roles, with recent focus on Generative AI and Agentic AI.\nHands-on knowledge of large language models, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, agentic workflows, and agent orchestration frameworks.\nExperience designing AI, machine learning, or GenAI systems on hyperscaler platforms such as Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, or Amazon Web Services.\nStrong understanding of API-driven architectures, microservices, event-driven systems, cloud-native platforms, containers, orchestration, MLOps, and LLMOps.\nAbility to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to business, technical, and executive audiences in client-facing or consulting environments.\nThese will help you stand out\nExperience with integration and business process management platforms such as Boomi, Kong, Pega, and Appian.\nMaster's degree or Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related STEM field.\nEvidence of technical thought leadership, such as patents, technical publications, professional portfolio, peer recognition, or similar contributions.\nExperience with agentic AI governance frameworks, autonomous system controls, responsible AI practices, and outcome monitoring.\nExposure to industry-specific Generative AI use cases across communications, media, technology, banking, financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, or similar domains.\nWe're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. 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