Remote Senior AI Architect: Agentic AI & Enterprise Systems

Cognizant; New Jersey; Remote; USD 108,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays & PTO

401(k) plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AI Architect to define end-to-end Agentic AI architectures that leverage LLMs, multi-agent systems, and orchestration layers for enterprise-scale solutions. You will collaborate with client stakeholders and cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable AI platforms.

The role is remote within the United States with potential in-person interviews. Strong expertise in AI/ML, cloud platforms, and DevOps/MLOps is required; visa sponsorship is not available.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in AI/ML and GenAI, including LLMs, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, and multi-agent architectures.
• Strong programming skills in Python with hands-on experience across AI libraries.
• Experience architecting on cloud platforms (Azure preferred; including Azure OpenAI, Databricks) and AWS or GCP.
• Experience with modern data and platform ecosystems (Databricks, Snowflake, Synapse), REST APIs, microservices, and event streaming (Kafka, Event Hub).
• Strong DevOps and MLOps capabilities, including CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, monitoring, logging, and experiment tracking.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end Agentic AI architecture frameworks leveraging LLMs, multi-agent systems, and orchestration layers.
• Design autonomous AI agents capable of planning, reasoning, memory management, and tool usage.
• Establish reference architectures for enterprise-grade AI applications that are cloud-native, scalable, and secure.
• Integrate AI agents with enterprise systems, including data platforms, ERP, CRM, APIs, and event-driven systems.

Skills

AI/ML & GenAI

Python programming

Azure & cloud platforms

REST APIs & microservices

DevOps / MLOps

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Databricks

Kafka

Azure OpenAI

AWS / GCP

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring & logging

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AI Architect to define end-to-end Agentic AI architectures that leverage LLMs, multi-agent systems, and orchestration layers for enterprise-scale solutions. You will collaborate with client stakeholders and cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable AI platforms.

The role is remote within the United States with potential in-person interviews. Strong expertise in AI/ML, cloud platforms, and DevOps/MLOps is required; visa sponsorship is not available.