Lead Frontier AI Architect

Cognizant; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global clients

ServiceNow transformation programs

Learning & certifications

Collaborative work environment

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Master Frontier Engineer to define the next generation of enterprise AI. You will lead design and governance of agentic systems, orchestration, and retrieval architectures to deliver trustworthy AI at scale.

As a trusted advisor, you will mentor engineers, guide governance and standards, and partner with clients on AI-native solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.

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

Agentic system architecture

AI orchestration

State-management patterns

Grounding strategies

Knowledge graph

Ontology engineering

Agentic testing frameworks

AI security

Access controls

Client engagement

Tools

Copilot Studio

Agentforce

MCP/A2A protocols

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Master Frontier Engineer to define the next generation of enterprise AI. You will lead design and governance of agentic systems, orchestration, and retrieval architectures to deliver trustworthy AI at scale.

As a trusted advisor, you will mentor engineers, guide governance and standards, and partner with clients on AI-native solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.