Associate Director, AI/Gen AI Platform
Cognizant
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This role pays less than 75% of similar roles. Most pay $193,830–$277,775 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $192k versus about $236k for comparable roles.
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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.
Listed pay typically runs $114,500–$145,000 across 26 roles with salary data.
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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.
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