Consulting Principal, Enterprise AI

Consulting Principal, Enterprise AI

Cognizant Consulting is more than Cognizant's consulting practice—we're a global community of 5,000+ 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 Consulting Principal, Enterprise AI you will make an impact by defining enterprise-wide AI architecture strategy and establishing scalable, secure, and governed AI solutions across a portfolio of SaaS, fintech, payments, and Hi-Tech clients. You will be a valued member of the Enterprise Architecture team and work collaboratively with executive stakeholders, solution architects, engineering leaders, product teams, delivery organizations, and client leadership to drive AI transformation at enterprise scale.

In this role, you will:

• Define enterprise AI architecture vision, governance standards, and target-state roadmaps that enable AI-augmented operations, intelligent automation, and enhanced customer and employee experiences
• Architect scalable, resilient, explainable, and secure GenAI, machine learning, RAG, and agentic AI solutions while establishing reusable reference architectures and accelerators across client portfolios
• Design cloud-native architectures and integration patterns across AWS, Azure, and GCP, ensuring AI capabilities are seamlessly integrated with SaaS platforms, payment ecosystems, finance systems, Service Now, Salesforce, Docu Sign, and other enterprise applications
• Establish architecture governance, responsible AI standards, model evaluation frameworks, compliance controls, and Architecture Review Board processes to ensure production-ready solutions
• Serve as a trusted advisor to client executives while supporting solutioning, pre-sales activities, discovery workshops, proof-of-concepts, and large-scale transformation initiatives

Work model – Hybrid

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 hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in a client or Cognizant office. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you're engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.

What you must have to be considered

• 12–15+ years of Enterprise Architecture experience supporting large-scale enterprise technology transformation programs
• Proven experience architecting enterprise-grade AI, GenAI, machine learning, and agentic AI solutions
• Deep expertise with TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM) and Enterprise Architecture governance frameworks
• Significant client-facing consulting experience, including executive stakeholder engagement, solutioning, pre-sales, and strategic advisory responsibilities
• Strong experience designing cloud-native architectures across AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform
• Expertise in microservices, Kubernetes, Docker, event-driven architecture, Kafka, REST APIs, and enterprise integration patterns
• Experience designing GenAI solutions including RAG architectures, vector databases, LLM onboarding, AI orchestration frameworks, and autonomous agent solutions
• Strong understanding of AI governance, responsible AI practices, model evaluation frameworks, privacy requirements, and regulatory compliance controls
• Demonstrated ability to independently develop proofs of…