Senior Agentic AI Architect - Remote (USA)

Cognizant; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 100,000 - 130,000; 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 is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer for a remote role in the USA. You will lead production-grade AI agent systems, architect solutions, and drive integration with Bedrock and AWS AI tools to deliver scalable agentic experiences.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, design leadership, and collaboration with onshore and offshore teams, with focus on secure, observable AI deployments and governance.

Qualifications

• MUST have Conversational AI & Agentic AI platforms.
• MUST have hands-on experience with AWS Bedrock, Bedrock AgentCore, and Lex.
• MUST have experience in building voice/chat bots, LLM apps, tool calling, and multi-agent workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead Dev team across onshore and offshore.
• Hands-on development, design and architecture based on client requirements.
• Support QA and UAT teams.

Skills

Conversational AI

Agentic AI platforms

AWS Bedrock

AWS Lex

Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Strands SDK

Voice & Chat Bot development

LLM orchestration

Prompt engineering

Security & governance in AI

Tools

Amazon Bedrock

AWS Lambda

Amazon S3

DynamoDB

API Gateway

IAM

CloudWatch

Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Strands

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer for a remote role in the USA. You will lead production-grade AI agent systems, architect solutions, and drive integration with Bedrock and AWS AI tools to deliver scalable agentic experiences.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, design leadership, and collaboration with onshore and offshore teams, with focus on secure, observable AI deployments and governance.