Senior AI Agent Platform Architect (Hybrid)

Cognizant; Irving (TX); Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 155,000; 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 Google ADK Architect to define enterprise AI agent platforms and multi-agent ecosystems, driving strategy, governance, and delivery leadership for strategic AI initiatives.

You will collaborate with executives, lead engineering teams, ensure production readiness and compliance, and shape reference architectures on Google Cloud with Vertex AI, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, while working in a hybrid model based in Irving, TX or Newark, NJ.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years in AI/ML leadership roles.
• Expert knowledge of Google ADK, Vertex AI, Generative AI architectures, and multi-agent systems.
• Extensive experience designing enterprise-scale AI platforms on Google Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the enterprise roadmap and reference architectures for AI agent platforms and multi-agent ecosystems using Google ADK, Vertex AI, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, and related orchestration frameworks.
• Provide technical governance for large-scale agentic AI implementations and evaluate emerging AI agent technologies, frameworks, and protocols, including MCP and A2A communication standards.
• Lead AI agent development teams and strategic programs, driving platform scalability, security, resiliency, operational excellence, architecture reviews, and production readiness.
• Establish engineering standards, development lifecycle practices, observability frameworks, deployment patterns, reusable agent frameworks, accelerators, and governance models.
• Collaborate with executive stakeholders to align AI initiatives with business objectives while sponsoring innovation, proof-of-concepts, capability-building programs, and adherence to responsible AI, compliance, and security requirements.

Skills

AI leadership

Python

Cloud-native

CI/CD

DevOps

Generative AI

Google Cloud

Tools

Google ADK

Vertex AI

LangGraph

CrewAI

AutoGen

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Google ADK Architect to define enterprise AI agent platforms and multi-agent ecosystems, driving strategy, governance, and delivery leadership for strategic AI initiatives.

You will collaborate with executives, lead engineering teams, ensure production readiness and compliance, and shape reference architectures on Google Cloud with Vertex AI, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, while working in a hybrid model based in Irving, TX or Newark, NJ.