Senior Agentic AI Architect: Azure & Low-Code Orchestration

Cognizant; Salem (OR); Remote; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant's Intelligent Automation Practice seeks a Senior Architect to design enterprise-grade agentic AI solutions. You’ll define reference architectures spanning pro-code agentic systems on Azure AI Foundry and low-code automation on Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot Studio, selecting the right pattern and platform for each use case.

You will lead multi-platform deployment, guide technology choices, and ensure production-ready implementations with guardrails and governance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of cloud solution architecture experience.
• 2+ years designing and 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).
• Strong understanding of LLM capabilities, tool call reliability, context management, grounding, and responsible AI.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end reference architectures for agentic AI across pro-code and low-code platforms.
• Select and justify appropriate agentic patterns based on use-case requirements.
• Lead engineering teams from development to production deployment on Azure AI Foundry or Power Platform.
• Guide platform and framework selection with clear trade-offs.
• Serve as AI architecture authority in client engagements: workshops, reviews, roadmaps.
• Develop reusable IP: reference architectures, playbooks, accelerators.

Skills

RAG retrieval

Multi-agent orchestration

Reasoning loops

Agent-to-agent communication

Python

Azure AI Foundry

MAF

Copilot Studio

Power Platform

Azure OpenAI SDK

Education

Azure certifications: AI-102 & AZ-900

Azure certifications: AZ-305 & PL-200 (Power Platform) preferred

Tools

Azure AI Foundry

Agent Framework (MAF)

Copilot Studio

Power Automate

Power Apps

Dataverse

Azure CLI

Job description

Cognizant's Intelligent Automation Practice seeks a Senior Architect to design enterprise-grade agentic AI solutions. You’ll define reference architectures spanning pro-code agentic systems on Azure AI Foundry and low-code automation on Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot Studio, selecting the right pattern and platform for each use case.

You will lead multi-platform deployment, guide technology choices, and ensure production-ready implementations with guardrails and governance.