Senior AI Platform Architect – GenAI & Enterprise

Cognizant; Jackson (MS); Remote; USD 140,000 - 160,000; 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 Principal Enterprise Architect – AI & GenAI Platforms to lead enterprise AI strategy and build scalable GenAI solutions across multiple platforms and tech environments. The role emphasizes governance, rapid prototyping, and collaboration with executives and delivery leaders.

The ideal candidate will bring hands-on AI experience, deep enterprise architecture expertise, and a track record of delivering AI initiatives from strategy to production.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, or Technology Consulting.
• Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale AI, cloud, and digital transformation programs.
• Expertise in Generative AI, Agentic AI, LLMs, RAG, and AI governance.
• Strong experience with AWS, Azure, and/or GCP cloud platforms.
• Experience designing microservices, APIs, Kubernetes, Docker, and event-driven architectures.
• Strong executive communication, consulting, and client engagement experience.
• Demonstrated success leading AI initiatives from strategy through production deployment.

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 standards, and production readiness criteria.
• Drive cloud-native architecture adoption across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
• Integrate AI solutions with enterprise platforms including Salesforce, ServiceNow, ERP, finance, and payments systems.
• Serve as a 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

Solution Architecture

Executive communication

Client engagement

AI governance

Pre-sales

Roadmapping

Mentoring

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

LangChain

LlamaIndex

MLflow

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect – AI & GenAI Platforms to lead enterprise AI strategy and build scalable GenAI solutions across multiple platforms and tech environments. The role emphasizes governance, rapid prototyping, and collaboration with executives and delivery leaders.

The ideal candidate will bring hands-on AI experience, deep enterprise architecture expertise, and a track record of delivering AI initiatives from strategy to production.