Enterprise AI Frontier Architect

Cognizant; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

NS business card

25 days holiday

Laptop provided

Smartphone provided

Pension scheme

Health insurance

Technology backbone

International environment

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Master Frontier Engineer to shape the next era of enterprise AI. You will act as the lead architect within a Frontier pod, guiding architecture, governance and evolution of complex agentic systems that deliver measurable business outcomes for top organizations.

You will design scalable AI-native architectures, establish governance and tooling, mentor engineers and translate bold ideas into production-ready capabilities.

Qualifications

• 7-15 years of delivery experience with AI systems design.
• Strong agentic system architecture skills and AI orchestration.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise agent platforms (Copilot Studio, Agentforce) and MCP/A2A protocols.
• Expertise in RAG-at-scale, grounding strategy, knowledge graphs and ontologies.
• Agentic test-framework design with AI security and access controls.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Delivery experience

AI architecture

Agent orchestration

State-management patterns

Copilot Studio

Agentforce

MCP/A2A protocols

RAG-at-scale

Knowledge graphs/ontologies

Agentic testing & security

Tools

Copilot Studio

Agentforce

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Master Frontier Engineer to shape the next era of enterprise AI. You will act as the lead architect within a Frontier pod, guiding architecture, governance and evolution of complex agentic systems that deliver measurable business outcomes for top organizations.

You will design scalable AI-native architectures, establish governance and tooling, mentor engineers and translate bold ideas into production-ready capabilities.