24 days ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design and deploy advanced agentic systems and workflows with governance for permissions, context sharing, and data access.
- Architect enterprise-scale agent deployments, trust layers, and cross-agent governance frameworks.
- Define orchestration patterns, state-management strategies, tool-calling frameworks, and resilience models.
- Establish AI quality engineering practices, agent evaluation frameworks, synthetic data strategies, and agentic testing methodologies.
- Design and scale enterprise knowledge architectures, ontologies, and retrieval systems.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor, establish engineering standards, engage clients, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- 7–15 years of delivery experience with deep AI-systems design expertise.
- Strong agentic system architecture skills, including AI orchestration and state-management patterns.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise agent platforms such as Copilot Studio or Agentforce and MCP/A2A agent protocols.
- Expertise in RAG at scale, grounding strategy, knowledge graph engineering, and ontology engineering.
- Experience designing agentic test frameworks together with AI security and access controls.
- AI-native solution architecture, agentic engineering, orchestration, context and retrieval engineering, and AI quality and evaluation design experience.
- Technical leadership, client engagement, mentoring ability, domain fluency, contextual judgment, and business-outcome orientation.
Benefits
- Hybrid position requiring three days per week in a client or Cognizant office in the Netherlands.
- Competitive salary based on qualities and experience.
- NS business card covering commute expenses.
- 25 days of paid holiday per year.
- Laptop and smartphone.
- Pension scheme and health insurance.
- Wellbeing programs and an open, international team environment.
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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.