Senior Agentic AI Engineer — AWS Bedrock & Orchestration

Cognizant; Springfield (IL); Remote; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Insurance

PTO

401(k)

Disability

Parental Leave

ESPP

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a senior developer to drive Conversational AI initiatives in a remote-capable role open to qualified applicants in Minneapolis, MN. You will lead an onshore/offshore development team, contribute hands-on in design and architecture, and support QA and UAT activities to ensure delivery quality.

Required is deep expertise in AWS Bedrock, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, and agent orchestration, with strong cloud and security practices for enterprise AI deployments.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS Bedrock, Bedrock AgentCore and Strands.
• Hands-on development of voice and chat bots and AI agents.
• Strong knowledge of design, architecture and integration for production AI.
• Proficiency in prompt engineering, evaluation, grounding and safety controls.
• Experience with scalable, secure deployment of enterprise AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead Dev team across onshore and offshore.
• Hands on Dev, Design and architecture based on client requirements.
• Support QA and UAT team.

Skills

Conversational AI

Agentic AI

LLM app development

Prompt engineering

RAG architectures

Multi-agent orchestration

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Lex

AWS Strands

Lambda

S3

DynamoDB

API Gateway

IAM

CloudWatch

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a senior developer to drive Conversational AI initiatives in a remote-capable role open to qualified applicants in Minneapolis, MN. You will lead an onshore/offshore development team, contribute hands-on in design and architecture, and support QA and UAT activities to ensure delivery quality.

Required is deep expertise in AWS Bedrock, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, and agent orchestration, with strong cloud and security practices for enterprise AI deployments.