Enterprise AI Architect JD:
What You Will Do
• Design and implement context architectures for LLM apps and agents: schemas, memory patterns, context assembly, and context window management.
• Build and optimize RAG pipelines (chunking, embeddings, hybrid retrieval, re-ranking) and validate quality using repeatable evaluation harnesses.
• Develop system prompts, prompt libraries, and structured output patterns; harden solutions against prompt injection and jailbreak attempts.
• Implement agentic workflows and tool-use integrations (APIs, function calling, workflow engines) with clear guardrails and observability.
• Engineer memory and persistence patterns (session memory, episodic recall, vector memory) appropriate for enterprise privacy and retention needs.
• Work with enterprise data and app teams to connect AI solutions to real systems (ERP/SCM/CRM, data lakes/warehouses), ensuring secure access and correct semantics.
• Collaborate with delivery leads to break work into stories, estimate effort, and drive day-to-day execution; mentor engineers through reviews and pairing.
• Use systematic optimization (prompt/context tuning, retrieval experiments, DSPy-style approaches) to improve reliability, latency, and cost.
What You Bring
AI Engineering Skills
• Strong Python skills and ability to ship production services.
• Hands-on expertise with RAG: embeddings, vector stores, retrieval strategies, re-ranking, and grounding techniques.
• Strong prompt and context engineering: system prompts, structured outputs, tool-use prompting, and context assembly patterns.
• Experience building agentic systems with orchestration frameworks (or custom implementations) and designing safe tool integrations.
• Awareness of security threats (prompt injection, data exfiltration) and ability to implement practical mitigations and guardrails.
Enterprise Integration Background
• Experience integrating AI apps with enterprise services, data sources, and identity (SSO/IAM), including secure network and secrets handling.
• Ability to work with structured and unstructured enterprise data; understand governance/lineage enough to avoid incorrect or unsafe data use.
• Comfort operating within enterprise SDLC controls: CI/CD, change management, security reviews, and production incident response.
• Working knowledge of enterprise workflows and process context so AI solutions map to real operations and decision points.
Tools & Platforms
• Python; common LLM/RAG frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack or equivalent).
• Vector databases and search stacks (pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch).
• Memory and state management approaches (session stores, vector memory, durable stores) appropriate for privacy and retention constraints.
• Evaluation and observability tooling (RAGAS, LangSmith/Phoenix or equivalent) and ability to build custom eval pipelines.
Preferred Qualifications
• B.Tech / M.Tech in CS, Engineering, or Linguistics; research background in NLP or information retrieval is a plus.
• Published work, open-source contributions, or internal frameworks related to context management or prompt engineering.
• Prior consulting or professional services experience — ability to adapt context design to diverse client environments quickly
What we offer
- The chance to work with impact. Here, you’re empowered to bring your biggest thinking to help our company and clients improve everyday life.
- Ownership over your career. Stay at the top of your game through our award-winning learning and development ecosystem. And when your ambitions change or we offer new opportunities, we help you pivot by providing reskilling, on-the-job learning and guidance to find new roles that might be a better fit.
- The opportunity to thrive on a high caliber team with heart. We celebrate each other’s experiences and perspectives and promote a sense of belonging through our affinity groups and diversity and inclusion initiatives.
- A comprehensive total rewards package, including a competitive salary and a pension plan with matching contributions.
- Flexible health and financial benefits to support you and your eligible dependents—from day one.
- True work-life balance. Be at your best through paid time off, flexible work arrangements, volunteering opportunities, social events, and so much more.
About us
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, building the bridge between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, realize tangible returns and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.
Other employment-related information
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Language requirements vary depending on roles, but we ask that all candidates have basic English proficiency for company-wide communications purposes. For roles based in Quebec, professional English proficiency is required, as you’ll deliver services to and collaborate with stakeholders outside the province who may not speak French.