Cognizant

AI Architect

Cognizant$150K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years in technology/architecture roles with enterprise-scale system design
  • 2+ years designing or implementing agentic AI / LLM-based systems in production
  • Solid experience in data engineering and integration of data systems
  • Strong understanding of LLM architectures, prompt engineering, and RAG
  • Experience with agent orchestration frameworks and custom orchestration layers
  • Familiarity with cloud architecture and AI/ML services
  • Understanding of API design and microservices architectures

Responsibilities

  • Design end-to-end architecture for multi-agent systems automating data engineering tasks
  • Define agent design patterns for intelligent automation solutions
  • Select and evaluate frameworks for enterprise-scale deployments
  • Partner with data engineering teams to identify automation opportunities
  • Architect agents for autonomous failure detection and remediation
  • Ensure automation solutions integrate with existing data platforms
  • Define guardrails for monitoring agent reliability and safety

Benefits

  • Opportunities for technical leadership and mentoring
  • Engagement with cutting-edge AI technology
  • Collaboration with diverse teams in a high-impact environment
  • Access to industry-standard tools and frameworks
  • Support for professional development and certifications
Full Job Description
Gen AI Architect - Agentic AI for Data Engineering Platform Automation

Role Summary

We are seeking a Gen AI Architect to design and lead the implementation of agentic AI solutions that automate and modernize our data engineering platform. This role sits at the intersection of generative AI architecture and data engineering, requiring someone who can design intelligent, autonomous systems (agents) that orchestrate, monitor, and optimize data pipelines, quality checks, transformations, and operational workflows - with minimal human intervention.

Experience: 15+ years overall in technology/architecture roles, with demonstrated hands-on experience architecting agentic AI / LLM-based systems, and working knowledge of data engineering platforms and practices.

Key Responsibilities

Agentic AI Architecture & Strategy
  • Design end-to-end architecture for multi-agent systems that automate data engineering tasks (pipeline orchestration, data quality remediation, schema drift detection, anomaly resolution, metadata management, etc.)
  • Define agent design patterns: planning/reasoning loops, tool-use frameworks, memory/state management, multi-agent orchestration, human-in-the-loop checkpoints
  • Select and evaluate frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, or custom orchestration) suited to enterprise-scale deployment
  • Establish architecture standards for LLM integration, prompt/context management, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and tool/function calling within data workflows

Data Engineering Platform Automation
  • Partner with data engineering teams to identify high-value automation opportunities across ingestion, transformation, orchestration (Airflow/dbt/Spark, etc.), and observability layers
  • Architect agents that can read pipeline metadata, logs, and lineage to autonomously detect, diagnose, and (where appropriate) remediate failures
  • Ensure automation solutions integrate cleanly with existing data platforms (data warehouses/lakehouses, ETL/ELT tools, orchestration engines, catalogs)

Technical Leadership & Governance
  • Define guardrails, evaluation frameworks, and monitoring for agent reliability, safety, and cost (token usage, latency, hallucination risk)
  • Establish patterns for human oversight, escalation, and rollback in autonomous workflows
  • Lead technical design reviews, POCs, and pilot-to-production transitions for agentic solutions
  • Mentor engineering teams on agentic design principles and best practices

Required Qualifications

Experience
  • 15+ years in software/data/AI architecture roles, including enterprise-scale system design
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience designing or implementing agentic AI / LLM-based systems (not just prototypes - production or near-production exposure preferred)
  • Solid foundational experience in data engineering: pipeline design, ETL/ELT, orchestration tools, data quality frameworks (does not need to be a hands-on data engineer, but must be conversant enough to architect solutions that integrate with these systems)

Technical Skills
  • Strong understanding of LLM architectures, prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings/vector stores, and function/tool calling
  • Experience with agent orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, or equivalents) or building custom orchestration layers
  • Familiarity with data engineering tooling: Airflow, dbt, Spark, Kafka, cloud data warehouses/lakehouses (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, etc.)
  • Cloud architecture experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP) including AI/ML services
  • Understanding of API design, microservices, and event-driven architectures
  • Familiarity with MLOps/LLMOps practices - model evaluation, observability, cost/latency monitoring

Preferred / Nice-to-Have
  • Experience architecting agentic systems specifically for data ops / DataOps automation
  • Exposure to data governance, lineage, and catalog tools (Collibra, Alation, Unity Catalog, etc.)
  • Certifications in cloud architecture or AI/ML (AWS/Azure/GCP Solutions Architect, etc.)
  • Experience with evaluation/guardrail frameworks for autonomous agents (e.g., agent testing harnesses, red-teaming for AI systems)
  • Prior experience in a "platform automation" or "AI-driven operations" initiative

About Cognizant

TriZetto is Powering Integrated Healthcare Management. With technology solutions touching more than half the U.S. population today, TriZetto is uniquely positioned to drive the convergence of core benefit administration, care management and constituent engagement. TriZetto provides premier information technology solutions that enable payers and other constituents in the healthcare supply chain to improve the coordination of benefits and care for healthcare consumers.

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Size
340,400 employees
Market Cap
$28.7 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.3 billion
Founded
1994
5 Year Trend
+6.5%
Revenue
$16.6 billion
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