2 days ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture design for AI, agentic workflow, process automation, and cloud integration solutions.
- Design LLM orchestration patterns, agent frameworks, decision logic, and prompt/context engineering approaches.
- Define cloud-native architectures across Azure, AWS, and GCP, including compute, storage, networking, and security considerations.
- Establish technical standards, governance, monitoring, observability, deployment controls, and model-risk practices for production AI systems.
- Act as the primary client-facing technical contact for architecture reviews, solution walkthroughs, and governance boards.
- Mentor AI/Automation Engineers and Integration Architects and provide technical direction through design reviews.
- Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions across RPA platforms, LLM providers, and agent frameworks.
- Assess legacy RPA environments and define modernization paths toward AI-enabled automation.
- Own technical risk assessment and escalation for architecture decisions.
- Support pre-sales and solutioning activities requiring architecture expertise.
Requirements
- 12–16 years of experience.
- Strong solution or enterprise architecture background, ideally including RPA or BPM experience extended into AI and agentic systems.
- Hands-on understanding of LLM orchestration, agent frameworks such as LangChain and Agent SDKs, and prompt/context engineering.
- Deep experience with Azure, AWS, and GCP cloud platforms.
- Experience defining governance standards for production AI systems, including monitoring, risk controls, and deployment gates.
- Strong client-facing, stakeholder management, communication, and business-to-technical translation skills.
- Proven technical leadership experience, including design reviews and mentoring.
- Experience evaluating and selecting automation and AI platforms and modernizing legacy automation environments.
- Architecture certifications are preferred.
- Preferred certifications include AWS Certified Machine Learning or an equivalent enterprise automation certification.
Benefits
- Day shift.
- Primary work location is London, UK—Bishopsgate; no travel is required.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
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.