Remote Enterprise Architect — Agentic AI Platforms

Cognizant; Frankfort (KY); Remote; USD 116,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term disability

Paid parental leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking an experienced Solution Architect – Agentic AI to define and drive enterprise architectures for next-generation AI agent capabilities. You will shape reference architectures, standards, reusable frameworks, and governance to enable scalable adoption across the SDLC and business domains.

You will collaborate with technology and business stakeholders to establish robust AI agent capabilities and accelerate enterprise adoption, leading

Qualifications

• 20+ years in software engineering and architecture.
• 7+ years in cloud-native architecture and platform engineering.
• 5+ years building AI/ML, Generative AI, or Agentic AI solutions.
• Experience defining enterprise architecture, reusable frameworks, and standards.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale platform initiatives.
• Strong understanding of enterprise AI platforms and modern platform engineering.
• Proven ability to influence senior technical and business leaders.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise reference architectures for AI Agents, Agent Factory, Agent Runtime, AI Control Plane, and AgentOps platforms.
• Establish architecture standards, design patterns, reusable frameworks, and guardrails for Agentic AI solutions.
• Lead technical strategy for Agentic AI adoption across the software lifecycle and business domains.
• Drive architecture reviews and governance for enterprise AI initiatives.
• Architect reusable agent capabilities including memory services, context engineering, orchestration, and tool registries.
• Define MCP integration patterns and agent-to-agent communication frameworks.
• Accelerate delivery through shared services and standardized platform capabilities.

Skills

Software engineering

Architecture leadership

Cloud-native architecture

AI/ML/Generative AI

Enterprise governance

Platform engineering

Stakeholder influence

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking an experienced Solution Architect – Agentic AI to define and drive enterprise architectures for next-generation AI agent capabilities. You will shape reference architectures, standards, reusable frameworks, and governance to enable scalable adoption across the SDLC and business domains.

You will collaborate with technology and business stakeholders to establish robust AI agent capabilities and accelerate enterprise adoption, leading