Senior Generative AI Architect - Enterprise Agent Solutions

Cognizant; Village of Tarrytown (NY); Hybrid; USD 81,000 - 142,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Lead Generative AI Engineer in a hybrid role based in Tarrytown, NY. You will guide the design and delivery of enterprise-scale agentic AI solutions, partnering with stakeholders to move from PoC to production while mentoring engineers and promoting best practices.

You will work with LangGraph, LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, and RAG implementations, leveraging cloud platforms and modern tooling to enable scalable AI workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years focused on AI/ML or Generative AI solutions.
• Proven experience deploying production-grade agentic AI or multi-agent solutions.
• Strong hands-on expertise with LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, or similar LLM orchestration frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and implementation of multi-agent AI solutions using LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, and Semantic Kernel.
• Build scalable agentic AI applications including agent workflows, memory management, tool integrations, and inter-agent communication.
• Develop and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions with vector DBs, prompts, and evaluation frameworks.
• Drive end-to-end delivery from PoC to production, including cloud infra, APIs, CI/CD, monitoring, and support.
• Support Claude Enterprise adoption through platform integrations, onboarding, governance, enablement, and user support.
• Provide technical leadership via mentorship, code reviews, and promotion of best practices and reusable frameworks.
• Translate requirements with stakeholders into scalable AI solutions and communicate recommendations clearly.
• Continuously evaluate emerging AI tech and foundation models to improve capabilities.

Skills

LangChain

LangGraph

AutoGen

CrewAI

Semantic Kernel

Python

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenAI GPT

Claude

Gemini

RAG

Vector databases

Prompt engineering

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Lead Generative AI Engineer in a hybrid role based in Tarrytown, NY. You will guide the design and delivery of enterprise-scale agentic AI solutions, partnering with stakeholders to move from PoC to production while mentoring engineers and promoting best practices.

You will work with LangGraph, LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, and RAG implementations, leveraging cloud platforms and modern tooling to enable scalable AI workflows.