About The Role The senior technical leader who designs the enterprise-scale AI systems behind Cognizant's most complex client transformations. Defines human-agent capability matrices, authors guardrail specifications, leads client architecture workshops, and owns the intellectual design of AI delivery at scale, cross-domain, cross-platform and cross-sector. From responsible-AI governance to regulated decisioning systems, the Distinguished Frontier Engineer sets the standard rather than meeting it, and technically leads cohorts of Frontier Engineers and Masters.

What You Will Do

- Design AI-native enterprise architectures and define human-agent capability matrices for delivery programmes.
- Author guardrail specifications and boundary documentation for agentic systems at enterprise scale.
- Lead client architecture review workshops and produce context-pipeline blueprints.
- Govern ADLC adoption across the portfolio; define standards for AI-generated code quality.
- Architect responsible-AI frameworks: bias detection, explainability and audit-trail design.
- Design regulated AI decisioning systems with compliance controls for relevant domains.

What You Bring Core skills:



AI-native enterprise architecture, Guardrail specification & responsible-AI framework design, Context-pipeline architecture at scale, ADLC delivery governance, Cross-platform AI integration strategy, AIOps orchestration architecture, Regulated AI decisioning design, Frontier-model evaluation & red-teaming, Human-agent capability modelling. Competencies: Enterprise AI Architecture, Responsible-AI &

- Guardrail Design, ADLC Governance &
- Standards, Technical Leadership &
- Advisory, AI Quality &
- Evaluation Design, Domain Fluency &
- Contextual Judgment, Business-Outcome Orientation.

ENTRY AND GROWTH

Experience: 12-22 yrs with enterprise AI architecture leadership.

Entry: Demonstrate enterprise-scale AI architecture and responsible-AI leadership; pass the Frontier CoE assessment at Architect level.

What Success Looks Like

Builds, ships and permanently owns AI-native systems end to end in a small Frontier pod, and is measured on the customer outcome the pod commits to, not on technical throughput alone.

📌 Frontier Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Cognizant
📍 Chennai