6 days ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Validate and complete high-level and low-level solution designs in line with programme tooling, governance, and Home Office standards.
- Identify gaps in discovery outputs through information gathering, workshops, options assessment, and technical documentation analysis.
- Lead architecture decisions through peer reviews, design forums, and technical design authorities while building stakeholder consensus.
- Collaborate hands-on with alpha-phase development and DevOps teams to explain architectures and evolve designs based on delivery feedback.
- Shape requirements for future procurement and development, identify architecture risks, recommend mitigations, and inform later technology strategy.
- Manage and document key design decisions and organize architecture work across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience delivering solution architecture across large, complex IT landscapes in regulated or critical environments.
- Broad architecture experience spanning cloud, distributed, monolithic, ETL, cross-platform, and cross-organisational integration patterns.
- Ability to take ownership of architecture initiated by others, assess gaps quickly, and drive evidence-based conclusions.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, including influencing senior stakeholders, navigating conflict, and reaching consensus on complex architecture decisions.
- Experience managing and documenting design decisions, with an understanding of PPPT reference architecture and governance processes.
- Practical experience working with development and DevOps teams during alpha or iterative delivery phases.
- Strong facilitation, options-analysis, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.
- Experience creating architecture artefacts for procurement, future development, and technology strategy.
- Existing NPPV3 and SC clearance, or the willingness and ability to obtain both.
Benefits
- Remote, home-based working arrangement with occasional travel to Home Office sites in London or Croydon.
- Access to wellbeing programmes supporting work-life balance.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Cognizant
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