Senior Enterprise AI Architect & Guardrail Leader

Cognizant; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

25 days holiday per year

Laptop provided

Smartphone provided

Pension scheme

Technology-forward organization

Job summary

Cognizant in the Netherlands seeks a Distinguished Frontier Engineer to shape enterprise AI delivery at scale. You will lead architecture design, guardrail specifications, and governance across multiple domains and clients, mentoring Frontier Engineers and driving responsible-AI frameworks.

You will partner with senior stakeholders and Frontier teams to set architectural standards, bias controls, and audit-trail designs while enabling scalable AI adoption across industries.

Qualifications

• 12-20 years of experience leading enterprise AI architecture initiatives.
• Deep knowledge of enterprise AI architecture and context-pipeline design at scale.
• Experience designing guardrails and responsible-AI frameworks for regulated environments.
• Delivery governance and cross-platform AI integration strategy experience.
• Ability to evaluate frontier models and design AI assurance patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design AI-native enterprise architectures and define human-agent capability matrices for delivery programmes.
• Author guardrail specifications and boundary documentation for agentic systems at enterprise scale.
• Lead client architecture review workshops and produce context-pipeline blueprints.
• Govern ADLC adoption across the portfolio and define standards for AI-generated code quality.
• Architect responsible-AI frameworks, including bias detection, explainability and audit-trail design.

Skills

Enterprise AI architecture leadership

Context-pipeline architecture at scale

Guardrail specification

ADLC governance

Cross-platform AI integration

Job description

Cognizant in the Netherlands seeks a Distinguished Frontier Engineer to shape enterprise AI delivery at scale. You will lead architecture design, guardrail specifications, and governance across multiple domains and clients, mentoring Frontier Engineers and driving responsible-AI frameworks.

You will partner with senior stakeholders and Frontier teams to set architectural standards, bias controls, and audit-trail designs while enabling scalable AI adoption across industries.