Remote Senior AI Architect – Enterprise GenAI & Agents

Cognizant; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 108,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AI Architect in the United States to design end-to-end Agentic AI architectures that leverage LLMs, multi-agent systems, and orchestration layers. You will integrate AI agents with enterprise systems and data platforms while ensuring security and scalability.

Strong Python skills and cloud experience (Azure preferred, plus AWS/GCP) are essential, along with DevOps/MLOps capabilities to support CI/CD and observability in complex environments.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in AI/ML and GenAI, including LLMs, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG, embeddings.
• Strong programming skills in Python with hands-on AI libraries.
• Experience architecting on cloud platforms (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP also).
• Familiarity with modern data ecosystems and REST APIs, microservices, event streaming.
• DevOps/MLOps capabilities, including CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, monitoring, logging.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end Agentic AI architecture frameworks using LLMs and multi-agent systems.
• Design autonomous AI agents for planning, reasoning, memory, and tool usage.
• Establish reference architectures for secure, scalable, cloud-native AI apps.
• Integrate AI agents with enterprise systems, data platforms, ERP/CRM, APIs, events.

Skills

AI/ML expertise

Python programming

Cloud architecture

DevOps/MLOps

Tools

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Studio

Databricks

AWS

GCP

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AI Architect in the United States to design end-to-end Agentic AI architectures that leverage LLMs, multi-agent systems, and orchestration layers. You will integrate AI agents with enterprise systems and data platforms while ensuring security and scalability.

Strong Python skills and cloud experience (Azure preferred, plus AWS/GCP) are essential, along with DevOps/MLOps capabilities to support CI/CD and observability in complex environments.