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$204k
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Based on 240 similar postings.
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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.
Listed pay typically runs
$100,000–$135,000
across 211 roles with salary data.
The Senior Agentic AI Engineer will lead a development team across onshore and offshore locations to design and architect solutions based on specific client requirements. This role involves hands-on development, supporting QA and UAT teams, and building production-grade Generative AI applications. Key responsibilities include developing and orchestrating AI agents using AWS Bedrock, Bedrock AgentCore, and AWS Strands. Candidates must possess skills in conversational AI, intent modeling, prompt engineering, and NLU concepts. Technical requirements include proficiency with AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, API Gateway, IAM, and CloudWatch. The work focuses on building agentic AI platforms, implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and ensuring secure LLM deployment through guardrails, prompt injection mitigation, and responsible AI controls to optimize for accuracy, latency, scalability, and cost efficiency.