Associate Director, Generative AI and Agentic AI Architecture

Location: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

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Associate Director, Generative AI and Agentic AI Architecture

About the role

As an Associate Director, Generative AI and Agentic AI Architecture, you will make an impact by shaping and delivering enterprise-scale Generative AI and Agentic AI solutions across strategic client accounts. You will be a valued member of Cognizant’s AI leadership team and work collaboratively with client executives, Sales, Presales, Delivery, Engineering, and Data Science teams.

In this highly visible role, you will combine hands-on AI architecture expertise with executive advisory, solution delivery, practice development, and technical leadership.

In this role, you will:

- Lead the strategy, architecture, and delivery of enterprise-grade Generative AI,



retrieval-augmented generation, and multi-agent AI solutions across multiple client engagements.

- Advise CXO-level stakeholders, facilitate executive workshops and AI maturity assessments, and translate complex AI capabilities into measurable business outcomes and adoption roadmaps.

- Define scalable reference architectures, technical standards, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, observability, and governance for production AI systems integrated with enterprise applications, data platforms, and cloud environments.

- Develop repeatable AI offerings, accelerators, reusable components, and intellectual property while supporting proposals, RFPs, solution estimates, and

📌 Associate Director, Generative AI and Agentic AI Architecture (Mississauga)
🏢 Cognizant
📍 Mississauga