Lead Agentic AI Architect (Remote) for Enterprise LLMs

Cognizant; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 108,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Disability insurance

Parental leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AI Architect to define end-to-end Agentic AI architectures that turn LLMs, multi-agent systems, and orchestration into secure, scalable enterprise solutions. You will collaborate with client stakeholders and cross-functional teams on architecture and deployment strategies.

Remote position in the United States with potential travel, offering a competitive salary range and comprehensive benefits. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in AI/ML and GenAI, including LLMs, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG, embeddings, and multi-agent architectures.
• Strong programming skills in Python (primary) with hands-on experience across AI libraries.
• Experience architecting on cloud platforms, with Azure preferred (including Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Studio, and Databricks), as well as AWS or GCP.
• Experience with modern data and platform ecosystems (Databricks, Snowflake, Synapse), REST APIs, microservices, and event streaming (Kafka, Event Hub).
• Strong DevOps and MLOps capabilities, including CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, monitoring, logging, and experiment tracking.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

AI/ML

GenAI

LLMs

Prompt engineering

Fine-tuning

RAG

Embeddings

Multi-agent architectures

Agent frameworks

Python

Cloud platforms

Azure

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Studio

Databricks

Snowflake

Synapse

REST APIs

Microservices

Event streaming

Kafka

Event Hub

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Monitoring

Logging

Experiment tracking

DevOps

MLOps

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Synapse

Kafka

Event Hub

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AI Architect to define end-to-end Agentic AI architectures that turn LLMs, multi-agent systems, and orchestration into secure, scalable enterprise solutions. You will collaborate with client stakeholders and cross-functional teams on architecture and deployment strategies.

Remote position in the United States with potential travel, offering a competitive salary range and comprehensive benefits. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.