Principal AI Architect & Enterprise Platform Leader

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 122,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision and life

401(k) plan and contributions

Employee stock purchase plan

Employee assistance program

10 paid holidays plus PTO

Paid parental leave and fertility

Learning and development programs

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting is seeking an Consulting Principal - AI Architect to translate business priorities into secure, scalable AI platforms and customer-facing solutions. You will collaborate with product, data, cloud, security, risk, legal, business leaders, engineering teams, and clients to deliver measurable outcomes.

You will lead architecture from discovery to production, guide model-agnostic AI solutions, establish AI platform practices, and mentor engineers while balancing delivery

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software, platform, data, or cloud engineering experience, including 5+ years in architecture or technical leadership, with demonstrated delivery of enterprise-scale production AI systems.
• Hands-on expertise in LLM application engineering, agents, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation, guardrails, distributed systems, cloud architecture, and multiple model providers.
• Experience establishing secure, reliable AI platform and LLMOps practices, including CI/CD, observability, automated evaluation, incident response, privacy, security, governance, resilience, and cost optimization.
• Experience guiding modern full-stack and distributed-system engineering using Angular and TypeScript, C# and .NET, APIs and events, PostgreSQL or AlloyDB, Redis, vector or graph stores, containers, and Google Cloud services.
• Strong executive communication, client-facing leadership, cross-functional collaboration, mentoring, and technical decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern target architectures, reference patterns, reusable services, and engineering standards for enterprise AI, generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic applications, and AI-enabled digital products.
• Lead solutions from discovery and architecture through implementation, evaluation, deployment, and production operations, while remaining hands-on in design reviews, prototyping, troubleshooting, and critical technical decisions.
• Architect model-agnostic AI solutions using frontier and open models, stateful agents, multi-agent workflows, tool calling, memory, human approvals, Model Context Protocol, vector or graph retrieval, and secure enterprise integrations.
• Establish AI platform and LLMOps practices covering prompt and model versioning, automated evaluation, CI/CD, observability, rollback, incident response, latency, reliability, cost optimization, and responsible-AI controls.
• Lead, mentor, and develop architects and engineers while partnering with cross-functional leaders to prioritize use cases, assess vendors, strengthen engineering quality, and deliver measurable outcomes.

Skills

Executive communication

Client-facing leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Technical decision-making

Tools

Angular & TypeScript

C# & .NET

APIs and events

PostgreSQL/AlloyDB

Redis

Graph/Vector stores

Containers

Google Cloud

Job description

Cognizant Consulting is seeking an Consulting Principal - AI Architect to translate business priorities into secure, scalable AI platforms and customer-facing solutions. You will collaborate with product, data, cloud, security, risk, legal, business leaders, engineering teams, and clients to deliver measurable outcomes.

You will lead architecture from discovery to production, guide model-agnostic AI solutions, establish AI platform practices, and mentor engineers while balancing delivery