Lead Agentic AI Architect (LLM & Multi-Agent)

Cognizant

Harrisburg (Dauphin County)

Remote

USD 108,000 - 180,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Paid Time Off

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant seeks a Senior AI Architect to define end-to-end Agentic AI architectures that turn large language models, multi-agent systems, and orchestration layers into secure, scalable enterprise solutions. You will join the Digital Engineering team and collaborate with client stakeholders, data and platform teams, and cross-functional engineering groups.

Position is remote in the United States with travel as required by the client.

Qualifications

Deep expertise in AI/ML, GenAI, LLMs, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG and agent architectures.
Strong Python programming skills with hands-on AI libraries.
Experience architecting on cloud platforms (Azure preferred; Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Studio, Databricks; AWS/GCP also).
Experience with modern data/platform ecosystems (Databricks, Snowflake, Synapse); REST APIs, microservices, event streaming (Kafka).
Strong DevOps/MLOps capabilities: CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, monitoring, logging, experiment tracking.

Responsibilities

Define end-to-end Agentic AI architecture frameworks using LLMs, multi-agent systems, and orchestration layers.
Design autonomous AI agents capable of planning, reasoning, memory management, and tool usage.
Establish reference architectures for cloud-native, scalable, secure AI applications.
Integrate AI agents with enterprise systems (data platforms, ERP, CRM, APIs, event-driven systems).