Director of Projects, Engagement Delivery Lead

Cognizant

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Folsom, CACharlotte, NCPlano, TX
Salary
$215,000–$225,000 / yr
Posted
7 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 330 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Director of Projects, Engagement Delivery Lead

The Director of Projects - Engagement Delivery Lead serves as the Chief Architect for enterprise-grade artificial intelligence solutions within a hybrid work model. This role involves guiding the strategic design and integration of generative AI and machine learning capabilities across complex business platforms. Key responsibilities include defining enterprise-wide AI architectures, creating solution blueprints for data flows and model lifecycles, and overseeing architectural governance to ensure technical robustness and ethical alignment. The position requires expertise in model selection, training, deployment, and optimization, as well as developing reference architectures for model orchestration and feature stores. Candidates must utilize deep knowledge of supervised and unsupervised learning, prompting techniques, and fine-tuning across cloud-native or on-premises environments to solve complex business problems while maintaining data privacy and regulatory adherence.

What you'll do

  • Define enterprise-wide AI architectures that embed generative AI and machine learning into core business platforms.
  • Create comprehensive AI solution blueprints detailing data flows, model lifecycles, and integration patterns.
  • Oversee architectural governance by defining standards and review processes for technical robustness and ethical alignment.
  • Provide expert guidance on generative AI model selection, training, deployment, and performance optimization.
  • Develop reference architectures for model orchestration, feature stores, and experiment tracking to accelerate delivery.
  • Evaluate emerging AI technologies and frameworks to produce objective recommendations balancing innovation and risk.
  • Design data pipelines and model serving infrastructure that support training, validation, and inference workflows.
  • Review complex AI implementations to provide feedback on security, resilience, performance, and sustainability.

What we're looking for

  • At least twenty years of experience designing large-scale enterprise architectures with a focus on AI and machine learning.
  • Advanced hands-on expertise in generative AI, including model architectures, prompting, fine-tuning, and deployment strategies.
  • Deep understanding of core AI and ML foundations, including supervised/unsupervised learning, model evaluation, and data preparation.
  • Practical knowledge of AI platforms and tools for experimentation, model lifecycle management, and monitoring.
  • Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams including data scientists, software engineers, product owners, and risk partners.
  • Familiarity with responsible AI principles including fairness, transparency, explainability, and privacy.
  • Comfort working in a hybrid model and day shift context using modern collaboration tools.
  • Experience with large multinational organizations and complex regulatory landscapes (preferred).

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