Senior Enterprise AI Architect — Responsible AI & Guardrails

Cognizant; Oslo; Hybrid; NOK 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Distinguished Frontier Engineer to shape the enterprise AI systems used in large-scale client transformations. You will design human-agent capability matrices, define guardrails, and lead architecture workshops to drive AI delivery at scale across industries.

You will partner with AI leaders and Frontier teams to establish frameworks and standards, govern responsible-AI practices, and mentor the next generation of frontier talent while embracing hybrid work in Norway.

Qualifications

• 12-20 years of experience with enterprise AI architecture leadership.
• Deep expertise in AI-native enterprise architecture and context-pipeline architecture at scale.
• Strong background in guardrail specification and responsible-AI framework design, including regulated AI decisioning.
• Experience with ADLC delivery governance and cross-platform AI integration strategy.
• Skills in frontier-model evaluation and red-teaming, AIOps orchestration architecture and human-agent capability modelling.

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

Guardrail specification

Responsible-AI design

ADLC governance

Frontier-model evaluation

Red-teaming

AIOps orchestration

Human-agent capability modelling

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Distinguished Frontier Engineer to shape the enterprise AI systems used in large-scale client transformations. You will design human-agent capability matrices, define guardrails, and lead architecture workshops to drive AI delivery at scale across industries.

You will partner with AI leaders and Frontier teams to establish frameworks and standards, govern responsible-AI practices, and mentor the next generation of frontier talent while embracing hybrid work in Norway.