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GenAI Architect / Senior Manager
- Cognizant (Chicago, IL)
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**Cognizant’s Digital Engineering** practice is seeking a highly qualified **GenAI Solution Architect** with experience developing and building high-performing, scalable, enterprise applications. You will be part of a digital software team that works on high-demand applications. Our engineers have a passion for high-quality, reliable and maintainable code. You will work side by side with product managers, designers, and clients, making decisions together in order to quickly deliver valuable working software to clients and their users. Our engineers are agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what we’re doing wrong, so we can fix it, and what we’re doing right, so we can improve on it. Above all, we judge success by the success of our team and the happiness of our customers.
**Cognizant Digital Engineering** If you’re like us, you’ve got big ideas. At Cognizant, we’re exploring new ideas every day. We help industry leading companies reinvent their business models and innovate products that create new value—by connecting people with things, insights and experiences. Cognizant digital engineering designs, engineers and delivers digital products and experiences that drive digital-first business models. We offer the most comprehensive digital engineering expertise and client-centric methodology for sustainable innovation.
**Location** : Chicago, IL
You must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
Cognizant will not sponsor H-1B or other U.S. work authorization for this role.
Responsibilities
•Requirement Analysis: Translate complex business needs into technical requirements and solution designs.
•Solution Design: Develop architectural blueprints, define system structure, behavior, and features, and choose the best technologies.
•Technical Leadership: Guide development teams, provide technical direction, and ensure adherence to standards and best practices.
•Stakeholder Communication: Act as a liaison, explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical business stakeholders and presenting solutions.
•Risk Management: Identify and mitigate technical and project risks, designing for security, disaster recovery, and scalability.
•System Integration: Ensure new solutions integrate seamlessly with existing hardware, software, and networks.
•Documentation: Create comprehensive documentation for architecture, design decisions, and workflows.
•Lifecycle Oversight: Oversee the solution from concept through deployment and beyond, ensuring alignment with business goals
Required Qualifications
•Bachelor's/Master's degree in CS/IT
•15+ years of IT experience (design and development), deep technical skills in (Azure, Java, Python, GenAI) & architecture patterns
•Experience in design and implementation of GenAI solutions is a must
•Problem-solving, business process analysis, data-driven decision making
•Stakeholder management, negotiation, translating business needs to tech solutions.
Travel: 0-5%
Why Choose Cognizant?
It takes a lot to succeed in today’s fast-paced market, and Cognizant Technology Solutions has become a leader in the industry. We love big ideas and even bigger dreams! We stand out because we put human experiences at the core. Our associates enjoy robust benefits and training opportunities from our industry-recognized, award-winning Academy team. You will have access to hundreds of technical trainings to keep your skillsets fresh and have opportunities to acquire certifications on the newest technologies.
Everything we do at Cognizant we do with passion—for our clients (fortune 100 companies), our communities, and our organization. It’s the defining attribute that we look for in our people.
If you love ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you!
About Cognizant Digital Engineering
Well-designed software transcends digital technology, going beyond the fulfillment of basic requirements to focus instead on human needs. Within Cognizant Digital Engineering, we help clients develop software products that transform human insights into tangible, production-ready digital solutions. We also work with our clients to scale their native cloud applications. Using insights from the lived experiences of our consumers, we seamlessly replace traditional service strategies with engaging, precise, and direct digital applications. Designing phenomenal software is vital to success in the digital economy—and we understand that a human-centric approach is key to this design.
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Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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