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As the senior technical leader who designs the enterprise-scale AI systems behind Cognizant's most complex client transformations, you'll define human-agent capability matrices, author guardrail specifications, lead client architecture workshops, and own the intellectual design of AI delivery at scale, spanning cross-domain, cross-platform and cross-sector work.\nFrom responsible-AI governance to regulated decisioning systems, you'll set the standard rather than meeting it. Partnering with senior client stakeholders, AI leaders and Frontier teams across industries and geographies, you'll establish the frameworks, guardrails and architectural patterns that enable organizations to confidently adopt AI at scale, while technically leading cohorts of Frontier Engineers and Masters and mentoring the next generation of Frontier talent.\nIn this role, you will\nDesign AI-native enterprise architectures and define human-agent capability matrices for delivery programmes.\n\nAuthor guardrail specifications and boundary documentation for agentic systems at enterprise scale.\n\nLead client architecture review workshops and produce context-pipeline blueprints.\n\nGovern ADLC adoption across the portfolio and define standards for AI-generated code quality.\n\nArchitect responsible-AI frameworks, including bias detection, explainability and audit-trail design.\n\nWork model\nWe believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. 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