AI Architect

Cigna Healthcare is seeking an AI Architect to drive the architecture, design, and adoption of enterprise-grade Generative AI (GenAI) solutions across the Cigna International Health.

Role Summary: The AI Architect will define end-to-end GenAI architectures, establish enterprise standards and reference patterns, and layered guardrails. The role requires strong collaboration with product, security, privacy, legal, and cloud engineering teams, particularly in regulated enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Enterprise GenAI Architecture & Strategy:
• Define and maintain the blueprints, reference architectures, and design patterns for LLM-based applications.
• Translate business and product requirements into robust AI solution architectures that balance innovation, reliability, cost efficiency, and risk management.
• Act as a GenAI subject matter expert, advising senior leadership on AI strategy, feasibility, and adoption paths.

• LLM, RAG & Agentic Workflows:
• Architect knowledge bases and RAG architectures integrating structured and unstructured enterprise data sources.
• Establish agentic AI patterns, enabling multi-step reasoning, tool usage, workflow orchestration, and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Guide teams on prompt engineering, context management, and response grounding to improve accuracy, relevance, and user trust.

• AI Platforms, Gateways & Integration:
• Establish secure connectivity to LLM endpoints in the enterprise cloud, documenting DNS, routing, IAM policies, firewall rules, and network controls.
• Integrate GenAI capabilities into existing enterprise systems and digital platforms.

• Responsible AI, Security & Guardrails:
• Recommend layered guardrails across GenAI systems.
• Embed Responsible AI principles into architecture and delivery practices.
• Partner closely with security, privacy, legal, and compliance teams to meet enterprise governance standards and emerging AI regulations.

• Innovation, Productivity & Enablement:
• Drive GenAI initiatives focused on developer productivity, operational efficiency, and enhanced customer experiences.
• Stay current with emerging AI trends, tools, and architectures, assessing their applicability to enterprise use cases.
• Mentor engineers and architects, establishing best practices, architectural standards, and reusable components.

Required Skills & Expertise:

• Generative AI & Core Concepts:
• Large Language Models (LLMs), embeddings, prompt engineering.
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Knowledge bases, and Multimodal embeddings.
• Agentic AI workflows and tool calling.

• AI Architecture & Tooling:
• Awareness of AI Gateway / model access layer design and access controls.
• Proficiency in designing and implementing AI Gateway/model access layers.
• Experience in architecting solutions with vector databases and semantic search.

• Responsible AI & Governance:
• Prompt-injection mitigation and jailbreak prevention.
• Content safety, moderation, and policy enforcement.
• Human-in-the-loop architectures.

• Cloud & Enterprise Engineering:
• Experience architecting solutions with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and their AI services.
• Secure API design, IAM, networking, and CI/CD integration.

Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience building and architecting large-scale software or AI systems in medium-to-large enterprises.
• 5+ years of experience with AI/ML, NLP, or Generative AI.
• Experience working in regulated or compliance-sensitive environments.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Why This Role Matters: This role is critical to scaling Generative AI responsibly across the enterprise, ensuring that innovation delivers measurable business value while meeting the highest standards of security, governance, and ethics.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Multicultural and hybrid working environment
• Private Medical Insurance
• Employee Wellbeing Benefits
• Educational Development Program