Senior AI Architect — Multi-Agent Systems & Enterprise AI

Cognizant; Helena (MT); Remote; USD 103,000 - 163,000; 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 an AI Architect to lead the architecture, development, and scaling of production-grade autonomous multi-agent AI systems. You will collaborate across engineering, DevOps, product, and healthcare teams to build intelligent, goal-oriented agents supporting the end-to-end software lifecycle.

Responsibilities include architecting scalable AI systems with Claude and LangGraph, building React/TypeScript frontends, Java/Spring Boot backends, secure integrations, and driving testing

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, full-stack application development, DevOps, or related engineering disciplines.
• At least one year of hands-on experience designing and building production-grade LLM, Agentic AI, or multi-agent solutions.
• Strong full-stack development experience with Java, Spring Boot, React, TypeScript, microservices, and REST APIs.
• Hands-on experience with Agentic AI frameworks and technologies such as Claude, Claude Code, retrieval-augmented generation, LangGraph, LangChain, and Azure.
• Experience integrating enterprise applications with LLM APIs and implementing secure, scalable AI-powered workflows.
• Strong understanding of automated testing, CI/CD, DevOps practices, application security, data privacy, and production architecture.
• Experience providing technical leadership and translating enterprise objectives into scalable AI architecture and engineering roadmaps.
• Availability to collaborate with project teams during Pacific Time business hours.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop scalable multi-agent AI systems using Agentic AI, Claude, retrieval-augmented generation, LangGraph, LangChain, and Azure.
• Design and build responsive, high-performance user interfaces using React, TypeScript, and modern state-management libraries.
• Develop scalable enterprise microservices, REST APIs, and business logic using Java and Spring Boot.
• Integrate Java backend services and React applications securely with Claude APIs to deliver intelligent, LLM-powered features and automated workflows.
• Use Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and AI-assisted engineering workflows to accelerate prototyping, multi-file refactoring, test-driven development, code reviews, and defect remediation.
• Optimize end-to-end performance and data flow across React applications, Java services, and cloud-hosted LLM endpoints.
• Implement comprehensive frontend and backend automated testing using tools such as Jest, React Testing Library, and JUnit.
• Establish secure coding, data privacy, architectural quality, and scalable engineering standards throughout the application lifecycle.

Skills

Software engineering

Full-stack development

DevOps

Technical leadership

Pacific Time availability

LLM / multi-agent systems

Java

Spring Boot

React

TypeScript

microservices

REST APIs

Tools

Claude

Claude Code

retrieval-augmented generation

LangGraph

LangChain

Azure

GitHub Copilot

Jest

React Testing Library

JUnit

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an AI Architect to lead the architecture, development, and scaling of production-grade autonomous multi-agent AI systems. You will collaborate across engineering, DevOps, product, and healthcare teams to build intelligent, goal-oriented agents supporting the end-to-end software lifecycle.

Responsibilities include architecting scalable AI systems with Claude and LangGraph, building React/TypeScript frontends, Java/Spring Boot backends, secure integrations, and driving testing