9 hours ago
Melbourne, AustraliaSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop solution architecture inputs and target designs for complex telecommunications applications.
- Guide legacy modernization across refactoring, migration, and decommissioning pathways while protecting functional parity and operational continuity.
- Align architecture decisions with enterprise reference architecture, AWS-aligned cloud direction, open standards, API-first principles, and decoupled functional boundaries.
- Apply AI-assisted engineering practices to code modernization, automated testing, documentation generation, application analysis, and platform observability.
- Define future-state cloud-native, data-driven, and AI-enabled architectures.
- Define and review data, integration, migration, and cutover architecture, including dependency mapping, reconciliation, parallel runs, rollback, and stabilization.
- Present recommendations, risks, and trade-offs through architecture governance, design approval, readiness review, transition, cutover, and handover processes.
Requirements
- Experience in solution or domain architecture within complex enterprise transformation, preferably in telecommunications or another regulated environment.
- Experience applying AI-led software engineering approaches to legacy modernization, including automated code analysis, reverse engineering, documentation generation, code transformation, testing acceleration, and cloud migration planning.
- Experience with mainframe-to-cloud or application modernization solutions and Java/Spring and AWS-aligned architecture patterns.
- Ability to create solution blueprints, architecture decisions, dependency maps, migration designs, and risk and assumption records from incomplete or ambiguous information.
- Strong client-facing communication and facilitation skills with experience influencing architecture, engineering, program, and governance stakeholders in multi-vendor environments.
- Telecommunications architecture experience across order, service, billing, assurance, customer, or fixed-line capabilities is preferred.
- Experience with data migration, integration architecture, application decomposition, cutover, or legacy decommissioning is preferred.
- Knowledge of IMS, VSAM, NATURAL, SAS, and complex mainframe interface landscapes is preferred.
- Enterprise, solution architecture, or cloud certification is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring four days per week in a client or Cognizant office in Sydney or Melbourne.
- Wellbeing programs intended to support work-life balance.
About Cognizant
Cognizant is a public IT services and consulting firm that designs, builds, and runs enterprise technology, including digital engineering, cloud modernization, data/AI, and managed services. It sells consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing on multi-year engagements to large enterprises in healthcare, banking, retail, communications, and manufacturing. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, Cognizant is NASDAQ-listed (CTSH) and a Fortune 500 company.