Cognizant is always looking for top talent. We are searching for candidates to fill future needs within the business. This job posting represents potential future employment opportunities with Cognizant. Although the position is not currently available, we want to provide you with the opportunity to express your interest in future employment opportunities with Cognizant. If a job opportunity that you may be qualified for becomes available in the future, we will notify you. At that time you can determine whether you would like to apply for the specific open position. Thank you for your interest in Cognizant career opportunities.
Cognizant Consulting is more than Cognizant’s consulting practice—we’re a global community of 6,000+ experts dedicated to helping clients reimagine their business. Blending our deep industry and technology advisory capability, we create innovative business solutions for Fortune 500 clients. And now, we’re looking for our next colleague who’ll join us in shaping the future of business. Could it be you?
As a Director, GenAI Delivery, you will make an impact by leading the delivery of complex GenAI programs end-to-end, staying close to engineering, and translating business goals into architecture and execution plans. You will be a valued member of the GenAI Consulting team and work collaboratively with managers, primary teams, and client stakeholders.
- Lead multi-workstream GenAI delivery programs, including scope, planning, staffing, risk management, dependencies, and stakeholder communications.
- Architect and review key technical decisions such as model selection, RAG design, context schemas, orchestration, tool-use, memory patterns, and evaluation strategy.
- Establish engineering standards (ADLC-style phases, quality gates, testing/evaluations, observability) and ensure teams ship production-grade solutions.
- Partner with enterprise architects to integrate AI capabilities with ERP/SCM/CRM, data platforms, identity, and integration layers.
- Convert ambiguous requirements into clear backlogs, technical specifications, and acceptance criteria; drive rapid iteration while protecting security and compliance.
- Build reusable assets: reference architectures, accelerators, prompt/context libraries, evaluation harnesses, and delivery playbooks.
- Coach and mentor senior engineers and architects; provide technical leadership, code/design reviews, and pragmatic problem solving.
- Consistently demonstrate the Cognizant Way to Lead, which means operating with Personal Leadership (building trust, collaboration, and inclusion), Organizational Leadership (driving vision and purpose, demonstrating a strategic and enterprise mindset, and creating and communicating a bold direction that inspires purpose), and Business Leadership (exemplifying client focus, managing ambiguity with accountability and results, and operating with financial acumen).
We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a remote position; however, the role requires a hybrid and travel‑based delivery model, including travel to client sites and Cognizant offices as needed. The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting and may change based on project or client needs. We will always be clear about role expectations.
- 10–18 years in software engineering/architecture with demonstrable delivery of production systems in enterprise environments.
- Hands-on experience building LLM-powered applications: RAG pipelines, tool-use agents, multi-step workflows; comfortable guiding implementation details.
- Strong grasp of cloud-native architecture (APIs, microservices, event-driven patterns), plus security and observability best practices.
- Practical experience with embeddings, semantic search, vector databases, re-rankers, and evaluation frameworks for RAG quality.
- Experience integrating with enterprise systems (ERP/SCM/CRM), middleware, and data platforms; strong understanding of system-of-record semantics.
- Demonstrated delivery leadership in transformations (ERP programs, modernization, cloud migrations) with real constraints: compliance, data quality, and integration complexity.
- Strong understanding of enterprise data architecture (lakes/warehouses, governance, lineage) and how to operationalize it for AI context and retrieval.
- Confidence operating in regulated environments and driving controls for privacy, security, auditability, and data residency.
- 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.
- Strong communication and executive-ready storytelling: explain architecture, trade-offs, and risks to varied audiences.
- Delivery mindset: thrives in ambiguity, drives decisions, removes blockers, and raises the bar on engineering quality.
- Collaborative leadership: partners effectively with product, security, data, and client stakeholders to move work forward.
- Embodiment of the Cognizant Way to Lead: Leading Self, Leading Others, & Leading the Business.
- The embodiment of Cognizant’s Values of: Work as One, Dare to Innovate, Raise the Bar, Do The Right Thing, & Own It.
- B.Tech / M.Tech in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent; cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Experience with DevSecOps, MLOps, or LLMOps practices in enterprise delivery.
- Prior client-facing consulting or embedded engineering roles in a professional services firm.
- $185,000 - $218,000
- This position is eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans
- Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
- 401(k) plan and contributions
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Employee assistance program
- 10 paid holidays plus PTO
- Paid parental leave and fertility assistance
- Learning and development certifications and programs
Applications will be accepted until 5/31/2026
Ce que nous offrons
- La possibilité d’avoir une carrière avec un impact. Ici, vous avez la possibilité de partager vos idées transformatrices pour aider notre entreprise et nos clients à améliorer le quotidien de tous.
- Prenez votre carrière en main grâce à notre écosystème d'apprentissage et de développement. Et lorsque vos ambitions changent ou que nous vous offrons de nouvelles occasions, nous vous aidons à pivoter en vous proposant des formations et des conseils pour trouver des postes qui pourraient mieux vous convenir.
- L’occasion de s'épanouir au sein d’une communauté diversifiée. Nous célébrons les expériences et perspectives d’autrui et encourageons un sentiment d'appartenance à travers nos groupes d'affinité et nos initiatives en matière de diversité et d'inclusion.
- Rémunération compétitive qui comprend un salaire concurrentiel et une pension avec des contributions équivalentes.
- Des prestations de soins de santé et financières flexibles pour vous soutenir, ainsi que vos personnes à charge admissibles, dès le premier jour au travail.
- Une vraie conciliation travail-vie personnelle. Nous offrons des vacances, des modalités de travail flexibles, des occasions de bénévolat, des événements sociaux et bien d’autres afin que vous puissiez être au mieux.
À propos de nous
Cognizant (NASDAQ : CTSH) est un concepteur d’IA et un fournisseur de services technologiques. Avec notre gamme de solutions IA full-stack, nous accompagnons nos clients au carrefour de l’investissement dans l’IA et de la valeur ajoutée. Notre grande expertise sectorielle, des processus et de l’ingénierie nous permet de convertir le contexte propre à chaque entreprise en systèmes technologiques amplificateurs du potentiel humain, générateurs de résultats tangibles et garants de l’avantage des acteurs internationaux dans un monde en constante évolution. Découvrez notre méthode sur www.cognizant.com ou suivez @cognizant.
Renseignments suppplémentaires sur l'emploi
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