Senior Agentic AI Architect — Azure & Low-Code Leader

Cognizant; Boise (ID); Remote; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant's Intelligent Automation Practice is seeking a Senior Architect to design and deliver enterprise-grade agentic AI solutions spanning pro-code patterns on Azure AI Foundry and low-code automation on Copilot Studio and Power Platform.

You will define reference architectures, select the right pattern for each use case, and translate complex business requirements into production-ready intelligent agent solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of cloud solution architecture experience.
• 2+ years delivering agentic AI systems in production or near-production environments.
• Experience with pro-code agentic systems (Azure AI Foundry, MAF) and low-code platforms (Copilot Studio, Power Platform).

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end reference architectures for agentic AI, covering topology, integrations, memory and deployment.
• Select and justify the appropriate agentic pattern based on use-case requirements.
• Lead engineering teams from local development to production deployment on Azure AI Foundry or Power Platform.
• Guide platform and framework selection (MAF, Copilot Studio, Power Automate) with clear trade-off rationale.
• Develop reusable IP: reference architectures, playbooks and accelerators for PoC delivery.

Skills

Agentic patterns

RAG retrieval

Multi-agent orchestration

Reasoning loops

A2A communication

Python

Education

AI certifications (AI/ML)

Azure certifications

Tools

MAF

Copilot Studio

Power Platform

Dataverse

Azure CLI

Job description

Cognizant's Intelligent Automation Practice is seeking a Senior Architect to design and deliver enterprise-grade agentic AI solutions spanning pro-code patterns on Azure AI Foundry and low-code automation on Copilot Studio and Power Platform.

You will define reference architectures, select the right pattern for each use case, and translate complex business requirements into production-ready intelligent agent solutions.