Cognizant

Principal Architect

Cognizant
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1 month ago
Chennai, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design scalable end-to-end generative AI architectures, solution blueprints, and reference architectures for complex enterprise problems.
  • Integrate generative AI models with existing systems and data pipelines to deliver reliable, reusable capabilities.
  • Architect AWS cloud-native solutions and establish CloudFormation-based infrastructure automation and governance.
  • Define and optimize machine learning workflows for data preparation, training, tuning, deployment, monitoring, scaling, storage, and compute utilization.
  • Translate business requirements into technical designs and advise stakeholders on architectural options, tradeoffs, and recommendations.
  • Guide secure AI design practices covering data protection, access control, observability, compliance, and responsible AI.
  • Review solution designs and implementation plans, identify risks and gaps, and ensure adherence to architectural standards.
  • Coordinate with platform and operations teams on high availability, resilience, and disaster recovery for AWS AI workloads.
  • Document architectural decisions, patterns, and guidelines and mentor teams on AI and cloud architecture.

Requirements

  • Extensive hands-on experience designing and implementing production generative AI solutions, including model integration, prompt engineering, and lifecycle management.
  • Strong proficiency with AWS CloudFormation, including authoring modular templates, managing stacks, and enforcing infrastructure automation practices.
  • Proven expertise with AWS machine learning services such as SageMaker across data preparation, training, deployment, and model monitoring.
  • Background in distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
  • Experience collaborating with distributed teams in hybrid work environments using remote-friendly communication and delivery practices.
  • Preferred experience with MLOps tools and frameworks for machine learning and generative AI workflows.
  • Preferred experience with data governance, data quality, and metadata management for training and inference data.
  • Preferred experience mentoring technical teams and contributing to architecture-focused communities of practice.
  • Industry knowledge in finance, retail, or healthcare is preferred.
  • Awareness of ethical AI guidelines and regulatory considerations is preferred.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model.

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About Cognizant

10,000+ employees

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.

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