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Acting as the lead architect within a Frontier pod, you'll combine deep technical expertise, business acumen and strategic thinking to design AI-native systems that create measurable outcomes for some of the world's leading organizations.\nAs a trusted technical advisor, you'll guide the architecture, governance and evolution of complex agentic systems, translate complex challenges into scalable AI solutions, establish engineering standards and mentor the next generation of Frontier talent, turning bold ideas into production-ready capabilities that create lasting value.\nIn this role, you will\nDesign and deploy advanced agentic systems and workflows, establishing governance models for permissions, context-sharing and data access.\nArchitect enterprise-scale agent deployments on leading AI platforms, creating trust layers and cross-agent governance frameworks that enable responsible AI adoption.\nDefine orchestration patterns, state management strategies, tool-calling frameworks and resilience models for complex AI ecosystems.\nEstablish AI quality engineering practices, including agent evaluation frameworks, synthetic data strategies and agentic testing methodologies.\nDesign and scale enterprise knowledge architectures, ontologies and retrieval systems that enable trustworthy, context-aware AI experiences.\nWork model\nWe believe hybrid work is the way forward as 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 the Netherlands. 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 must have to be considered\n7-15 years of delivery experience with deep AI-systems design expertise.\nStrong agentic system architecture skills, including AI orchestration and state-management patterns.\nHands-on experience with enterprise agent platforms such as Copilot Studio or Agentforce, and MCP/A2A agent protocols.\nExpertise in RAG-at-scale and grounding strategy, plus knowledge graph and ontology engineering.\nAgentic test-framework design experience together with AI security and access controls.\nThese will help you succeed\nAI-native solution architecture expertise paired with strong agentic engineering and orchestration.\nContext and retrieval engineering depth for grounding agents at enterprise scale.\nAI quality and evaluation design experience across agentic systems.\nTechnical leadership and advisory skills, with strong client engagement and the ability to mentor engineers.\nDomain fluency, contextual judgment and a strong business-outcome orientation.\nWhat We Offer\n\nA competitive salary based on your qualities and experience\nNS business card to cover your commute expenses\n25 days of paid holiday per year\nA laptop and a smartphone\nA pension scheme\nHealth insurance\nOrganisation driven by technology - we have a tremendous technology backbone\nOpen, 'can do' team spirit and international environment\n\nWe're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. 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