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Conversational AI Architect (NiCE Cognigy)

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26 days ago
London, United KingdomMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end Cognigy solution design across assigned conversational AI use cases.
  • Define architecture, reusable patterns, flow structures, agentic AI strategy, tool calling, integrations, security controls, guardrails, multilingual support, voice experiences, xApps, reporting, and production-readiness standards.
  • Determine when to use agentic AI, deterministic flows, NLU, Knowledge AI, xApps, or human handover.
  • Define patterns for LLM Prompt nodes, tool schemas, Resolve Tool Actions, context management, API integrations, fallback handling, escalation, and error recovery.
  • Provide technical direction to Cognigy AI Engineers, review implementation quality, validate design decisions, unblock delivery issues, and own solution sign-off.
  • Lead stakeholder workshops, demonstrations, design reviews, risk reviews, and technical governance.
  • Support implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and escalation of unclear or risky designs when required.

Requirements

  • At least 2–3 years of experience designing and delivering conversational AI, voice AI, or agentic AI solutions.
  • Strong hands-on Cognigy AI architecture and delivery experience, including Flows, Voice Gateway, Agentic AI tool calling, LLM Prompt nodes, Knowledge AI, xApps, Playbooks, Insights, environment management, and reusable solution patterns.
  • Practical understanding of LLM prompting, tool design, tool orchestration, structured tool results, hallucination prevention, prompt grounding, guardrails, and deterministic or NLU approaches.
  • Working knowledge of conversation design, including intent journeys, task flows, fallback paths, repair prompts, turn-taking, escalation, voice-friendly wording, and customer-friction reduction.
  • Strong JavaScript skills for reviewing Code Nodes, validation logic, payload mapping, API response handling, context manipulation, logging, and custom flow behavior.
  • Experience designing secure API integrations, PII-safe handling, authentication patterns, error handling, observability, and production support models.
  • Strong voice-agent architecture experience, including STT/TTS selection, multilingual recognition, DTMF, barge-in, end pointing, transfers, hang-up logic, silence handling, latency, and speech tuning.
  • Ability to debug complex issues using transcripts, context, input, tool arguments, Voice Gateway logs, API responses, Insights, and Code Node logs.
  • Cognigy certification, advanced conversation design or voice UX experience, persona and tone-of-voice design, dialogue repair, multilingual copy, IVR migration, containment optimization, or usability testing are desirable.
  • Contact-center architecture, Agent Copilot, Cisco Finesse, SSML, advanced TTS tuning, SIP/WebRTC, Twilio or similar voice connectivity, CRM or case-management integrations, CCaaS integrations, and guardrail framework experience are desirable.

Benefits

  • 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with tenure.
  • Quarterly awards and bonuses.
  • Flexible working policy and industry-leading home-working and mobility technology.
  • Competitive pension scheme, financial wellness support, private medical insurance, Medicash cashback, retail discounts, and an employee assistance program.
  • Company shares, vehicle lease salary sacrifice, and Cycle to Work Scheme, with some available after one year of tenure.
  • Annual paid volunteering day and enhanced parental leave.
  • Funding for additional qualifications and courses plus paid study leave.

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