Remote AI Architect: Scalable Multi-Agent Systems

Cognizant; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 103,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an AI Architect to lead the architecture, development, and scaling of production-grade autonomous multi-agent AI systems. You will partner with engineering, DevOps, product, and healthcare teams to deliver intelligent, goal-oriented agents that support the end-to-end software development lifecycle.

The role emphasizes hands-on design with Java, Spring Boot, React, and Claude APIs, plus leadership in secure coding, testing, and scalable roadmaps.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, full-stack application development, DevOps, or related engineering disciplines.
• At least one year of hands-on experience designing and building production-grade LLM, Agentic AI, or multi-agent solutions.
• Strong full-stack development experience with Java, Spring Boot, React, TypeScript, microservices, and REST APIs.
• Hands-on experience with Agentic AI frameworks and technologies such as Claude, Claude Code, retrieval-augmented generation, LangGraph, LangChain, and Azure.
• Experience integrating enterprise applications with LLM APIs and implementing secure, scalable AI-powered workflows.
• Strong understanding of automated testing, CI/CD, DevOps practices, application security, data privacy, and production architecture.
• Experience providing technical leadership and translating enterprise objectives into scalable AI architecture and engineering roadmaps.
• Availability to collaborate with project teams during Pacific Time business hours.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop scalable multi-agent AI systems using Agentic AI, Claude, retrieval-augmented generation, LangGraph, LangChain, and Azure.
• Design and build responsive, high-performance user interfaces using React, TypeScript, and modern state-management libraries.
• Develop scalable enterprise microservices, REST APIs, and business logic using Java and Spring Boot.
• Integrate Java backend services and React applications securely with Claude APIs to deliver intelligent, LLM-powered features and automated workflows.
• Use Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and AI-assisted engineering workflows to accelerate prototyping, multi-file refactoring, test-driven development, code reviews, and defect remediation.
• Optimize end-to-end performance and data flow across React applications, Java services, and cloud-hosted LLM endpoints.
• Implement comprehensive frontend and backend automated testing using tools such as Jest, React Testing Library, and JUnit.
• Establish secure coding, data privacy, architectural quality, and scalable engineering standards throughout the application lifecycle.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

React

TypeScript

Microservices

REST APIs

CI/CD

DevOps

Agentic AI

Claude API

Tools

Claude

Claude Code

LangGraph

LangChain

Azure

GitHub Copilot

Jest

JUnit

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an AI Architect to lead the architecture, development, and scaling of production-grade autonomous multi-agent AI systems. You will partner with engineering, DevOps, product, and healthcare teams to deliver intelligent, goal-oriented agents that support the end-to-end software development lifecycle.

The role emphasizes hands-on design with Java, Spring Boot, React, and Claude APIs, plus leadership in secure coding, testing, and scalable roadmaps.