Remote Senior Agentic AI Architect - LLMs & Orchestration

Cognizant; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 108,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Cognizant is hiring a Senior AI Architect to define end-to-end Agentic AI architectures that transform large language models, multi-agent systems, and orchestration layers into secure, scalable, enterprise-grade solutions. You will work with data and platform teams and client stakeholders within the Digital Engineering group.

The role is remote within the United States, with potential in-person interviews and travel as needed.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in AI/ML and GenAI, including LLMs and multi-agent architectures.
• Strong Python programming experience with AI libraries.
• Experience architecting on cloud platforms (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP also).
• Experience with modern data/platform ecosystems and REST APIs.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end Agentic AI architecture frameworks leveraging LLMs and multi-agent systems.
• Design autonomous AI agents capable of planning, reasoning, and tool usage.
• Establish reference architectures for cloud-native, scalable, secure AI apps.
• Integrate AI agents with enterprise systems and data platforms.

Skills

AI/ML

GenAI

LLMs

Prompt engineering

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Databricks

Kafka

Event Hub

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Cognizant is hiring a Senior AI Architect to define end-to-end Agentic AI architectures that transform large language models, multi-agent systems, and orchestration layers into secure, scalable, enterprise-grade solutions. You will work with data and platform teams and client stakeholders within the Digital Engineering group.

The role is remote within the United States, with potential in-person interviews and travel as needed.