Consulting Principal, AI Architecture and Engineering Lead
Cognizant
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This role pays less than 64% of similar roles. Most pay $173,200–$235,750 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $192k versus about $204k 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 330 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $100,000–$135,000 across 211 roles with salary data.
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JOB TITLE: Consulting Principal - AI Architect As a Consulting Principal - AI Architect within the AI & Data Consulting team, you will design and deliver advanced AI solutions focused on LLM-based systems, context engineering, and agentic workflows. You will architect enterprise-grade LLM solutions, including context architectures, memory models, and prompt engineering strategies while designing and optimizing RAG pipelines with retrieval, embeddings, and re-ranking. Your daily work involves leading the development of agentic workflows, integrating APIs, and connecting AI solutions with enterprise platforms like ERP and CRM systems. You must possess expertise in Python-based production systems, vector databases, and frameworks such as LangChain or LlamaIndex. You will ensure security, data integrity, and cost optimization while mentoring teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and high-impact AI applications across diverse enterprise environments.
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