Senior AI Platform Architect – GenAI & Cloud

Cognizant; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Paid holidays

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect – AI & GenAI Platforms to spearhead enterprise AI strategy and scalable GenAI solutions. Role spans governance, patterns, and cloud-native adoption across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with senior-level client engagement and pre-sales support.

The role emphasizes leadership of architecture across platforms and services, mentoring teams, and delivering measurable business value for Hi-Tech and FinTech clients.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture or Technology Consulting.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise AI architecture strategy, roadmaps, standards, and governance frameworks.
• Architect scalable GenAI, Agentic AI, ML, and cloud-native solutions across complex enterprise environments.
• Design AI platforms utilizing LLMs, RAG, vector databases, APIs, and modern cloud services.
• Build rapid proofs of concept and prototypes to accelerate innovation and validate business use cases.
• Establish Responsible AI practices, model governance, and production readiness criteria.
• Drive cloud-native architecture adoption across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
• Integrate AI solutions with enterprise platforms (Salesforce, ServiceNow, ERP, finance, payments).
• Serve as trusted advisor to client executives, business stakeholders, and delivery leadership.
• Support pre-sales, solutioning, architecture reviews, and strategic client workshops.
• Mentor architects and engineering teams while promoting reusable AI patterns and accelerators.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Cloud architecture

GenAI & LLMs

Executive stakeholder mgmt

Pre-sales & solutioning

Mentoring engineers

AWS/Azure/GCP

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

MLflow

Vector Databases

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect – AI & GenAI Platforms to spearhead enterprise AI strategy and scalable GenAI solutions. Role spans governance, patterns, and cloud-native adoption across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with senior-level client engagement and pre-sales support.

The role emphasizes leadership of architecture across platforms and services, mentoring teams, and delivering measurable business value for Hi-Tech and FinTech clients.