Associate Director, Agentic AI & Integration Platforms

Cognizant

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Work type
Remote
Location
Teaneck, NJ
Salary
$185,000–$200,000 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
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About Cognizant

Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.

Cognizant currently has 33 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Associate Director, Agentic AI & Integration Platforms

As an Associate Director – Agentic AI & Integration Platforms, you will join the AI, Integration & Process Platforms team to lead the end-to-end architecture, design, and engineering of Agentic and Generative AI solutions for enterprise clients. You will translate business use cases into solution blueprints and implementation roadmaps, building multi-agent systems for autonomous task planning, execution, and reflection. Your daily work involves managing LLM selection, agent orchestration, memory, data ingestion, vector stores, RAG, and integration layers while embedding Responsible AI principles like fairness and explainability. You must possess hands-on knowledge of prompt engineering, hyperscaler platforms like Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, or Amazon Web Services, and MLOps. You will solve complex business problems by creating scalable, secure, and governed intelligent systems using microservices and event-driven architectures.

What you'll do

  • Architect end-to-end Agentic and Generative AI solutions including multi-agent systems, LLM selection, and RAG.
  • Embed Responsible AI principles such as fairness, explainability, and human oversight into all AI architectures.
  • Translate business use cases into technical blueprints, reference architectures, and implementation roadmaps.
  • Provide technical leadership to delivery teams across PoCs, pilots, and production deployments.
  • Support pre-sales activities by articulating Agentic AI value propositions to executive and technical audiences.
  • Develop internal accelerators and reusable assets while mentoring architects and engineering teams on GenAI.
  • Ensure compliance with AI governance standards, enterprise security policies, and regulatory frameworks.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, frontier engineering, AI engineering, or related technology leadership roles.
  • Recent experience focusing on Generative AI and Agentic AI.
  • Hands-on knowledge of LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, vector databases, agentic workflows, and agent orchestration frameworks.
  • Experience designing AI, machine learning, or GenAI systems on hyperscaler platforms like GCP, Azure, or AWS.
  • Strong understanding of API-driven architectures, microservices, event-driven systems, cloud-native platforms, containers, MLOps, and LLMOps.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to business, technical, and executive audiences in client-facing or consulting environments.
  • Experience with integration and business process management platforms such as Boomi, Kong, Pega, and Appian (preferred).
  • Master's degree or Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related STEM field (preferred).

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