Principal Consultant, Apps & AI
Microsoft
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This role pays more than 64% of similar roles. Most pay $149,443–$231,335 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $210k versus about $190k 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 37 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $124,500–$151,250 across 28 roles with salary data.
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Partner Consulting, AI joins the Enterprise AI Consulting Practice to lead end-to-end delivery of complex Generative AI and enterprise AI transformation programs. This role focuses on technical depth and delivery leadership, requiring the individual to manage multi-workstream programs while overseeing critical architecture decisions like model selection, RAG design, context schemas, and orchestration patterns. The candidate will build reusable assets such as reference architectures, prompt libraries, and evaluation harnesses while integrating AI capabilities across ERP, SCM, CRM, and data platforms. Key technical requirements include experience with LLM-powered applications, vector databases, semantic search, and cloud-native architectures including microservices and event-driven systems. The role addresses the challenge of deploying production-grade AI solutions within regulated environments, requiring expertise in prompt engineering, agentic systems, and MLOps to ensure security, compliance, and high-quality execution for large-scale enterprise transformations.
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