9 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define end-to-end architecture for enterprise platforms, applications, integrations, and digital transformation initiatives.
- Design scalable, secure, highly available, production-grade cloud-native solutions.
- Establish architecture standards, governance frameworks, and reusable design patterns.
- Lead cloud transformation, modernization, migration, and deployment strategy initiatives.
- Drive architecture reviews, technology evaluations, and solution approval processes.
- Ensure solutions meet security, performance, reliability, scalability, compliance, and disaster recovery requirements.
- Partner with engineering, security, data, infrastructure, operations, and business teams.
- Mentor architects and technical leaders and promote architecture best practices.
- Influence senior executives and drive strategic technology decisions.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in technology delivery, including significant experience in Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, or Technology Leadership roles.
- Proven experience designing and governing enterprise-scale, production-grade solutions.
- Deep expertise in cloud platforms, with Azure preferred, cloud-native architectures, and modern application design patterns.
- Strong understanding of integration architectures, deployment strategies, DevSecOps, and CI/CD.
- Experience defining and implementing non-functional requirements for security, scalability, availability, performance, and disaster recovery.
- Strong stakeholder management, leadership, communication, problem-solving, mentoring, and technical leadership capabilities.
- Experience with AI/GenAI, Data & Analytics, intelligent automation platforms, Kubernetes, container platforms, and Infrastructure as Code is helpful.
- Experience leading large-scale cloud modernization and digital transformation programs is helpful.
- Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, governance practices, multi-cloud architectures, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems is helpful.
- Ability to influence senior executives and drive strategic technology decisions.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring 3–4 days per week in a client or Cognizant office.
- Wellbeing programs intended to support work-life balance.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
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.