Lead Enterprise AI Frontier Architect

Cognizant; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant in London is seeking a Master Frontier Engineer to define the next frontier in enterprise AI. You will be the lead architect within a Frontier pod, combining deep technical expertise with business acumen to design AI-native systems that deliver measurable outcomes for major clients.

As a trusted technical advisor, you’ll guide architecture, governance and evolution of agentic systems, translate complex challenges into scalable AI solutions, set engineering standards and mentor the next

Qualifications

• 7-15 years of delivery experience with deep AI-systems design expertise.
• Strong agentic system architecture skills, including AI orchestration and state-management patterns.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise agent platforms such as Copilot Studio or Agentforce, and MCP/A2A agent protocols.
• Expertise in RAG-at-scale and grounding strategy, plus knowledge graph and ontology engineering.
• Agentic test-framework design experience together with AI security and access controls.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy advanced agentic systems and workflows, establishing governance models for permissions, context-sharing and data access.
• Architect enterprise-scale agent deployments on leading AI platforms, creating trust layers and cross-agent governance frameworks that enable responsible AI adoption.
• Define orchestration patterns, state management strategies, tool-calling frameworks and resilience models for complex AI ecosystems.
• Establish AI quality engineering practices, including agent evaluation frameworks, synthetic data strategies and agentic testing methodologies.
• Design and scale enterprise knowledge architectures, ontologies and retrieval systems that enable trustworthy, context-aware AI experiences.

Skills

AI systems design

Agentic system architecture

AI orchestration

Client engagement

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Copilot Studio

Agentforce

MCP/A2A agent protocols

Job description

Cognizant in London is seeking a Master Frontier Engineer to define the next frontier in enterprise AI. You will be the lead architect within a Frontier pod, combining deep technical expertise with business acumen to design AI-native systems that deliver measurable outcomes for major clients.

As a trusted technical advisor, you’ll guide architecture, governance and evolution of agentic systems, translate complex challenges into scalable AI solutions, set engineering standards and mentor the next