Cognizant

Solution Architect – Agentic AI

Cognizant
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4 days ago
Louisville, KY, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$116k - $180k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define enterprise reference architectures for AI Agents, Agent Factory, Agent Runtime, AI Control Plane, and AgentOps platforms.
  • Establish architecture standards, design patterns, reusable frameworks, and implementation guardrails for Agentic AI solutions.
  • Lead technical strategy for Agentic AI adoption across the software development lifecycle and business domains.
  • Drive architecture reviews and technical governance for enterprise AI initiatives.
  • Architect reusable capabilities including memory services, context engineering, workflow orchestration, business rules engines, and tool registries.
  • Define Model Context Protocol integration patterns and agent-to-agent communication frameworks.
  • Accelerate delivery through reusable agent assets, shared services, and standardized platform capabilities.

Requirements

  • 20+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture.
  • 7+ years of experience in cloud-native architecture and platform engineering.
  • 5+ years of experience building AI/ML, Generative AI, or Agentic AI solutions.
  • Strong experience defining enterprise architecture, reusable frameworks, design patterns, and technical standards.
  • Experience leading enterprise-scale platform initiatives and establishing governance and implementation guardrails.
  • Strong understanding of enterprise AI platforms, cloud-native architecture, and modern platform engineering concepts.
  • Demonstrated success influencing and collaborating with senior technical and business leaders.
  • Preferred experience with Agent Factory, Agent Runtime, AI Control Plane, AgentOps, Model Context Protocol, memory services, context engineering, workflow orchestration, business rules engines, tool registries, agent-to-agent communication, multi-agent architectures, reusable AI agent components, and shared platform services.

Benefits

  • Remote position in the United States, subject to project and business requirements.
  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
  • Paid holidays and paid time off.
  • 401(k) plan and contributions.
  • Long-term and short-term disability coverage.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Eligible for a discretionary annual incentive program based on performance and applicable plan terms.

Categories

Solutions Engineering
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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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