Remote: Associate Director, GenAI & Enterprise AI Architecture

Cognizant; Teaneck Township (NJ); Remote; USD 185,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an Associate Director – AI, Integration & Process Platforms to lead end-to-end architecture and engineering of Agentic and Generative AI solutions for enterprise clients. You will translate complex business problems into scalable, secure AI architectures built on LLMs, multi-agent systems, and cloud-native platforms.

You will embed Responsible AI practices and governance while guiding delivery teams through PoCs, pilots, and production deployments, collaborating with

Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise architecture or related technology leadership roles with Generative AI focus.
• Hands-on knowledge of large language models, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, agentic workflows, and agent orchestration frameworks.
• Experience designing AI, ML, or GenAI systems on hyperscaler platforms such as Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, or Amazon Web Services.
• Strong understanding of API-driven architectures, microservices, event-driven systems, cloud-native platforms, containers, orchestration, MLOps, and LLMOps.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to business, technical, and executive audiences in client-facing or consulting environments.

Responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end Agentic and Generative AI solutions, including multi-agent systems for autonomous task planning, execution, reflection, and escalation, along with LLM selection, agent orchestration, memory, tools, data ingestion, vector stores, RAG, APIs, and integration layers.
• Embed Responsible AI principles such as fairness, explainability, transparency, human oversight, blast-radius controls, and kill-switch mechanisms, while ensuring compliance with AI governance standards, enterprise security policies, and regulatory frameworks.
• Translate business use cases into AI solution blueprints, reference architectures, and implementation roadmaps, and provide technical leadership to delivery teams across PoCs, pilots, and production deployments.
• Support pre-sales, RFPs, solutioning, and deal credentialization by articulating Agentic AI value propositions to business, technical, and executive audiences.
• Drive thought leadership and innovation by staying current with Generative AI and Agentic AI advancements, contributing to internal accelerators and reusable assets, and mentoring architects and engineering teams on GenAI and agent-based system design.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

AI engineering

Generative AI

Agentic AI

Prompt engineering

LLMs

Agent orchestration

Cloud platforms

MLOps/LLMOps

Communication to stakeholders

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science or related STEM field

PhD in CS/Engineering (optional)

Tools

Boomi

Kong

Pega

Appian

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an Associate Director – AI, Integration & Process Platforms to lead end-to-end architecture and engineering of Agentic and Generative AI solutions for enterprise clients. You will translate complex business problems into scalable, secure AI architectures built on LLMs, multi-agent systems, and cloud-native platforms.

You will embed Responsible AI practices and governance while guiding delivery teams through PoCs, pilots, and production deployments, collaborating with