10 hours ago
Base Salary
$130k - $155k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, development, and production deployment of enterprise AI solutions.
- Build full-stack applications spanning front-end applications, backend services, APIs, microservices, AI orchestration layers, and enterprise integrations.
- Develop React user experiences and Python/FastAPI backend services using cloud-native, distributed, and event-driven architectures.
- Design and implement LLM, RAG, enterprise search, knowledge management, agentic workflow, and multi-agent solutions.
- Integrate AI gateways, MCP gateways, agent and tool registries, memory frameworks, RAG services, search services, and observability platforms.
- Architect and optimize highly available, secure, and cost-efficient AWS AI platforms.
- Establish CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, release management, monitoring, observability, troubleshooting, and production support practices.
- Implement authentication, authorization, identity management, privacy, governance, guardrails, auditability, and responsible AI controls.
- Conduct architecture, design, and code reviews; mentor engineers and establish reusable software engineering standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field is required; a master’s degree is preferred.
- At least 6 years of software engineering experience with significant hands-on cloud-native application development experience.
- Strong AWS architecture knowledge covering VPC, IAM, networking, security, compute, and storage.
- Hands-on experience with AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, API Gateway, Step Functions, CloudWatch, and OpenSearch.
- Experience with AWS Bedrock AgentCore capabilities including runtime, gateway, identity, memory, and observability.
- Expertise in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and FastAPI.
- Experience developing RAG pipelines, LLM applications, enterprise search solutions, and knowledge management platforms.
- Experience designing agent-based systems with LangGraph, Strands Agents, or comparable agentic frameworks.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Understanding of MLOps, ModelOps, responsible AI, AI governance, model monitoring, and AI evaluation.
- Experience with REST APIs, microservices, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and relational, NoSQL, search, and vector databases.
- Strong software architecture, performance optimization, testing, production engineering, and cloud cost optimization skills.
- Preferred qualifications include regulated-industry experience, AWS certifications, enterprise AI platform and governance experience, Langfuse familiarity, and experience leading globally distributed engineering teams.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model based in New Jersey, with onsite work required as determined by client and business needs.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Life insurance, AD&D coverage, and short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Paid time off and company holidays.
- 401(k) plan with company contributions, subject to eligibility.
- Employee stock purchase plan where available.
- Employee assistance program.
- Parental leave and family care benefits.
- Tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.
- Learning, certification, career development, and advancement opportunities.
- Potential eligibility for performance bonuses, merit-based increases, and employee referral bonuses.
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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.