AIA - Principal Architect
Cognizant · Philadelphia, PA · 2 wk ago
HybridArt & CreativeFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Design multi-agent systems using frameworks like LangGraph, Crew.ai, Strands SDK, Microsoft Agent Framework or Google ADK with clear agent contracts, guardrails, observability and governance
- Provide pre-sales solution support for RFIs/RFPs, Capability/PoV presentations and customer workshops related to GenAI/Agentic AI use cases
- Provide technical advisory on Agentic AI topics such as orchestration patterns, evaluation, observability, AgentOps, context engineering etc. to customers
- Architect context engineering patterns covering semantic layers, vector stores, metadata catalogs, lineage and knowledge graphs to setup data for AI Agents consumption
- Demonstrate technical authority and thought leadership in GenAI/Agentic AI discussions
- Lead architecture reviews and make technology selection decisions across the stack
- Leverage coding agents to experiment and build AI Agent prototypes to demonstrate tools & design patterns
- Create architecture decision frameworks, technology comparison matrices and visual slide decks to communicate complex architecture and technical strategies to mixed audience (executive + engineering)
- Mentor engineering and sales teams on agentic patterns, context engineering and the evolving AI services landscape
- Provide technology consulting support to delivery, CoE/community by publishing best practices/architectural guidelines, providing training, publishing whitepapers/case studies and building reusable components.
Requirements
- Overall, 15 + years of experience in the Data Engineering and/or AIML Space
- 2+ years of experience in Generative AI/Agentic AI architecture & implementation
- 2+ years of experience in pre-sales solutioning in GenAI/Agentic AI space
- Strong proficiency in one or more Agentic AI frameworks (LangGraph, Crew.ai, Strands SDK, Google ADK, Microsoft Agent Framework)
- Strong proficiency in foundational models and AI/GenAI Services in one of the hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Deep expertise in architecting & implementing multi-agentic systems with appropriate guardrails, observability and governance
- Deep expertise in advanced prompt engineering, RAG implementation and AI Agents evaluation techniques
- Prior experience in building ontologies and knowledge graphs is an added advantage