Senior Agentic AI Solutions Architect - Remote

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Dover (DE); Remote; USD 116,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits (Medical/Dental/Vision

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking an experienced Solution Architect – Agentic AI to define enterprise architecture for next-generation AI capabilities. You will shape reference architectures, platform standards, reusable frameworks, and governance models to enable scalable adoption across the software development lifecycle and business domains.

You will work across technology and business stakeholders to establish robust, reusable AI agent capabilities and accelerate

Qualifications

• 20+ years in software engineering and architecture.
• 7+ years in cloud-native architecture and platform engineering.
• 5+ years building AI/ML, Generative AI, or Agentic AI solutions.
• Proven ability to define enterprise architecture and standards.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale platform initiatives.
• Experience establishing architecture governance and guardrails.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise AI platforms and modern platform engineering.
• Proven ability to influence senior technical and business leaders.

Responsibilities

• Define reference architectures for AI Agents, Agent Factory, Agent Runtime, AI Control Plane, and AgentOps platforms.
• Establish architecture standards, design patterns, reusable frameworks, and guardrails for Agentic AI solutions.
• Lead the technical strategy for Agentic AI adoption across the software development lifecycle and business domains.
• Drive architecture reviews and governance for enterprise AI initiatives.
• Architect reusable agent capabilities: memory services, context engineering, workflow orchestration, business rules engines.
• Define Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration patterns and agent-to-agent communication frameworks.
• Accelerate delivery via reusable agent assets, shared services, and standardized platform capabilities.

Skills

Software engineering

Enterprise architecture

Cloud-native architecture

AI/ML / Generative AI

Platform governance

Leadership

Stakeholder collaboration

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking an experienced Solution Architect – Agentic AI to define enterprise architecture for next-generation AI capabilities. You will shape reference architectures, platform standards, reusable frameworks, and governance models to enable scalable adoption across the software development lifecycle and business domains.

You will work across technology and business stakeholders to establish robust, reusable AI agent capabilities and accelerate