Senior Frontier AI Architect — Enterprise Agent Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

NS business card for commute

25 days paid holiday per year

Laptop

Smartphone

Pension scheme

Health insurance

International environment

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Master Frontier Engineer to lead the architecture of enterprise AI systems, shaping governance, data access, and scalable agentic platforms for top clients in a hybrid Netherlands setting.

You will mentor the next generation of Frontier talent, translate complex challenges into AI-ready solutions, and drive production-ready capabilities that deliver measurable business value.

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 architecture

Agent platforms Copilot Studio

Agent platforms Agentforce

MCP/A2A protocols

RAG-at-scale

Knowledge graph

Ontology engineering

AI security

Access controls

Tools

Copilot Studio

Agentforce

MCP/A2A protocols

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Master Frontier Engineer to lead the architecture of enterprise AI systems, shaping governance, data access, and scalable agentic platforms for top clients in a hybrid Netherlands setting.

You will mentor the next generation of Frontier talent, translate complex challenges into AI-ready solutions, and drive production-ready capabilities that deliver measurable business value.