Senior Enterprise Frontier AI Architect

Cognizant; Oslo; Hybrid; NOK 2,000,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Master Frontier Engineer to define enterprise AI's next chapter. As lead architect within a Frontier pod, you’ll blend deep technical expertise with business insight to design AI-native systems that deliver measurable outcomes for global clients.

You will shape architecture, governance and evolution of agentic systems, translate challenges into scalable AI solutions, and mentor the next generation of Frontier talent, turning bold ideas into production-ready capabilities.

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 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

AI orchestration

State management patterns

Technical leadership

Tools

Copilot Studio

Agentforce

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Master Frontier Engineer to define enterprise AI's next chapter. As lead architect within a Frontier pod, you’ll blend deep technical expertise with business insight to design AI-native systems that deliver measurable outcomes for global clients.

You will shape architecture, governance and evolution of agentic systems, translate challenges into scalable AI solutions, and mentor the next generation of Frontier talent, turning bold ideas into production-ready capabilities.