5 days ago
Base Salary
$80k - $170k/yr
Responsibilities
- Conduct market research and technical assessments of emerging AI platforms, foundation models, AI agents, orchestration frameworks, developer tools, and enterprise AI products.
- Design end-to-end solution architectures and architecture patterns using Microsoft Azure for AI, cloud-native applications, integrations, APIs, data platforms, and automation.
- Integrate GenAI agents into backend codebases, APIs, and data pipelines and ensure production readiness through error handling, retries, idempotency, logging, and monitoring.
- Participate across the software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, production support, code reviews, and architecture governance.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and project teams on requirements, architecture reviews, technical assessments, solution vision, and implementation roadmaps.
- Mentor development teams on modern cloud and AI architecture practices and contribute to shared engineering standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
- At least 10 years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture.
- At least 5 years of experience designing enterprise solutions on Microsoft Azure.
- Experience evaluating emerging technologies, conducting technical market assessments, delivering proofs of concept, and scaling them into production.
- Experience leading enterprise architecture and cloud transformation initiatives in complex, cross-functional organizations.
- Strong knowledge of production engineering concepts including error handling, retries, idempotency, observability, and fault tolerance.
- Proficiency building APIs with FastAPI or similar frameworks.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based version control workflows.
- Ability to work autonomously in ambiguous environments and make sound engineering trade-offs.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills across multicultural and distributed teams.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- Paid holidays and paid time off.
- 401(k) plan and contributions.
- Long-term and short-term disability coverage.
- Paid parental leave.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Onsite position; applications are accepted until November 15, 2026.
- Eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program based on performance and applicable plan terms.
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About Cognizant
Cognizant is a public IT services and consulting firm that designs, builds, and runs enterprise technology, including digital engineering, cloud modernization, data/AI, and managed services. It sells consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing on multi-year engagements to large enterprises in healthcare, banking, retail, communications, and manufacturing. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, Cognizant is NASDAQ-listed (CTSH) and a Fortune 500 company.