Remote Solution Architect for Agentic AI Platforms

Cognizant; Carson City (NV); 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

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Solution Architect—Agentic AI to define and drive enterprise architecture for next-generation AI agent capabilities. You will shape reference architectures, platform standards, reusable frameworks, and governance models for scalable adoption across the lifecycle and business domains.

You will lead architecture reviews, establish standards, and drive adoption of Agentic AI with emphasis on memory services, context engineering, and agent-to-agent communication

Qualifications

• 20+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture.
• 7+ years of cloud-native architecture and platform engineering.
• 5+ years of AI/ML, Generative AI, or Agentic AI solutions.
• Strong experience defining enterprise architecture, reusable frameworks, design patterns, and technical standards.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale platform initiatives.

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 implementation guardrails for Agentic AI solutions.
• Lead the technical strategy for Agentic AI adoption across the software development lifecycle and business domains.
• Drive architecture reviews and technical governance for enterprise AI initiatives.
• Architect reusable agent capabilities such as memory services, context engineering, workflow orchestration, and tool registries.
• Define Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration patterns and agent-to-agent communication frameworks.
• Accelerate delivery through reusable agent assets and standardized platform capabilities.

Skills

Software engineering

Enterprise architecture

Cloud-native architecture

AI/ML and Generative AI

Technical governance

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Solution Architect—Agentic AI to define and drive enterprise architecture for next-generation AI agent capabilities. You will shape reference architectures, platform standards, reusable frameworks, and governance models for scalable adoption across the lifecycle and business domains.

You will lead architecture reviews, establish standards, and drive adoption of Agentic AI with emphasis on memory services, context engineering, and agent-to-agent communication