Senior AI Solution Architect: Azure & Databricks GenAI Lead

Cognizant; Washington (District of Columbia); In loco; USD 157.000 - 180.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Descrizione del lavoro

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AI Solution Architect to lead enterprise-scale AI, Generative AI, and agentic AI initiatives. You will define scalable architectures leveraging Azure, LLMs, RAG, and multi-agent frameworks while guiding cross-functional teams through enterprise AI adoption.

The role requires hands-on AI engineering coupled with enterprise architecture, data platform, security, and governance expertise to translate business goals into secure, production-ready AI solutions.

Competenze

• 10+ years of experience in Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Data Engineering, or Software Engineering.
• 5+ years delivering AI, ML, Data Science, or analytics solutions.
• 3+ years implementing enterprise Generative AI, RAG, LLM, or agentic AI solutions.
• Deep expertise with Microsoft Azure and related cloud services.
• Strong knowledge of Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, Lakehouse patterns.
• Hands-on knowledge of LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, CrewAI, MCP.
• Experience designing API-first, event-driven, microservices, cloud-native integration for AI platforms.
• Strong knowledge of AI security, governance, privacy, and regulatory compliance.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional teams and executive tech discussions.

Mansioni

• Define enterprise AI strategy, reference architectures, governance standards aligned with business goals.
• Architect Generative AI and agentic AI solutions using Azure tools, LLMs, and vector databases.
• Design multi-agent systems using LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, CrewAI, MCP.
• Establish orchestration patterns for tool calling, memory management, context engineering, and autonomous workflows.
• Design modern data platforms using Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, and Microsoft Fabric.
• Architect data pipelines, metadata, lineage, quality, and self-service analytics capabilities.
• Build secure, scalable cloud-native solutions with AKS, API Management, Cosmos DB, and Azure SQL.
• Establish Responsible AI, model governance, evaluation, observability, and AI risk-management frameworks.
• Lead architecture reviews, workshops, proofs of concept, and modernization programs.

Conoscenze

AI architecture

Azure cloud

LLMs / RAG

Multi-agent systems

Data platforms

Security & governance

Leadership

Descrizione del lavoro

Cognizant is seeking a Senior AI Solution Architect to lead enterprise-scale AI, Generative AI, and agentic AI initiatives. You will define scalable architectures leveraging Azure, LLMs, RAG, and multi-agent frameworks while guiding cross-functional teams through enterprise AI adoption.

The role requires hands-on AI engineering coupled with enterprise architecture, data platform, security, and governance expertise to translate business goals into secure, production-ready AI solutions.