Senior Agentic AI Architect: Azure & Power Platform Lead

Cognizant; Dallas (TX); Remote; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

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.

You will 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 and translating complex business requirements into production-ready intelligent agent solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of cloud solution architecture experience.
• 2+ years designing and delivering agentic AI systems in production or near-production environments.
• Proficiency with Azure AI Foundry and Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF).
• Hands-on with Copilot Studio and Power Platform for agent automation.
• Strong understanding of LLM capabilities, tool calls, and responsible AI.
• Azure certifications AI-102 and AZ-900; PL-200 preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end reference architectures for agentic AI — topology, memory, retrieval, and deployment across pro-code and low-code platforms.
• Select and justify the appropriate agentic pattern based on use-case requirements and team capabilities.
• Lead engineering teams from local development and production deployment on Azure AI Foundry or Power Platform.
• Guide platform and framework selection with clear trade-off rationale for each engagement.
• Serve as the primary AI architecture authority in client engagements.
• Develop reusable IP: reference architectures, playbooks, accelerators for rapid PoC delivery.
• Embed responsible AI guardrails and production readiness standards.

Skills

Cloud solution architecture

Client-facing delivery

LLM capabilities understanding

Education

Azure AI certifications (AI-102, AZ-900)

Power Platform / PL-200 familiarity

Tools

Azure AI Foundry

MAF (Microsoft Agent Framework)

Copilot Studio

Power Platform (Power Automate, Power Apps, Dataverse)

Azure CLI / SDKs

Job description

Cognizant's Intelligent Automation Practice is seeking a Senior Architect to design and deliver enterprise-grade agentic AI solutions.

You will 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 and translating complex business requirements into production-ready intelligent agent solutions.