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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.
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JOB TITLE: Consulting Principal Enterprise Architect — AI Specialty (Platforms & Services / Hi-Tech)
As a Consulting Principal Enterprise Architect — AI Specialty (Platforms & Services / Hi-Tech), you will join the Enterprise Architecture team to serve as the senior AI architecture authority for a portfolio of Platforms & Services and Hi-Tech accounts. You will define enterprise-wide AI visions, target-state roadmaps, and reference architectures for GenAI and autonomous agentic frameworks. Your daily responsibilities include architecting scalable, secure, and explainable systems, standardizing reusable building blocks like RAG pipelines and vector stores, and building hands-on proofs of concept. You will utilize Python, LangChain, LlamaIndex, MLflow, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Hugging Face across AWS, Azure, and GCP. You must navigate complex domain contexts including SaaS, fintech payments, and semiconductor manufacturing while ensuring responsible-AI practices and compliance with PCI-DSS and SOX.
AI
LLM
Agentic Workflows
Vector Search
AI Orchestration
Distributed Systems
APIs
Cloud-Native
Data Platforms
AI Governance
Observability
Security
Privacy
Compliance