Cognizant

Principal Architect

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Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Set platform technical direction and strategic objectives with senior engineers, architects, and platform owners.
  • Align architecture efforts with the central architecture function, technical standards, and enterprise objectives.
  • Participate in design and code reviews to ensure business outcomes and enterprise standards are met.
  • Drive architecture decisions for critical and complex problems across assigned and adjacent platforms.
  • Guide technical platform architecture and engineering teams with platform owners and senior architects.
  • Direct architecture toward long-term business unit and enterprise goals while partnering with business leadership on priorities.
  • Capture and share engineering best practices, reference architectures, and patterns with technical teams.
  • Collaborate with peers on technical matters, prototypes, system designs, and enterprise-wide research projects.

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of web development or solutions architecture experience.
  • Hands-on experience developing complex multi-tiered systems end to end.
  • Experience across multiple IT disciplines and a confirmed understanding of architectural concepts.
  • Experience with system and process analysis and large-scale technology enhancements or pivots, including pilot implementations and analysis.
  • Experience working with data and DBMS technologies, including legacy and emerging databases, RDBMS, and NoSQL.
  • Experience building highly available customer-facing applications in a GDHA setting.
  • Experience building cloud-native applications and working with APIs.
  • Experience designing highly available and resilient solutions, automating processes, improving performance, and transforming monolithic architectures into loosely coupled architectures.
  • Experience in two or three of infrastructure, security, DevOps, application development, database technologies, or cloud computing.
  • Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in computer science or a related field.
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About Cognizant

10,000+ employees

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value. We build full-stack AI solutions powered by deep industry, process and engineering expertise — embedding an organization's unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential and drive tangible outcomes. From strategy to deployment, we help global enterprises move from AI ambition to AI impact and stay ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai | Follow us @cognizant

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