Enterprise AI Frontier Architect — Hybrid NL

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days of paid holiday per year

Laptop and smartphone

Health insurance

Pension scheme

NS business card to cover commute

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation in Amsterdam is seeking a Master Frontier Engineer to define what’s next in enterprise AI. You’ll lead an AI-native architecture and guide governance, enabling scalable, trustworthy systems across client platforms.

You’ll mentor engineers, establish engineering standards and design agentic workflows with strong state-management, data access, and security practices. Hybrid work with three days onsite in the Netherlands, plus supportive wellbeing programs.

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 systems architecture

RAG-at-scale

Ontology engineering

AI security

Leadership & mentoring

Tools

Copilot Studio

Agentforce

MCP/A2A protocols

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation in Amsterdam is seeking a Master Frontier Engineer to define what’s next in enterprise AI. You’ll lead an AI-native architecture and guide governance, enabling scalable, trustworthy systems across client platforms.

You’ll mentor engineers, establish engineering standards and design agentic workflows with strong state-management, data access, and security practices. Hybrid work with three days onsite in the Netherlands, plus supportive wellbeing programs.