Hybrid AI-Powered Modern Engineering Architect

Cognizant; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting seeks an AI & Modern Engineering Architect to shape target-state architectures and translate complex legacy findings into modernisation opportunities. You will collaborate with client stakeholders, governance, cloud, engineering, data, integration, testing and operations teams.

You will drive cloud-native, AI-enabled architectures, data migration plans and evidence-based recommendations, ensuring governance and business value.

Qualifications

• Experience in solution or domain architecture within enterprise transformation.
• Demonstrated AI-led software engineering approaches to legacy modernization.
• Shaping mainframe-to-cloud or application modernization with Java/Spring and AWS patterns.

Responsibilities

• Develop solution architecture inputs and target designs for complex telecom applications.
• Guide legacy modernization through refactor, migration and decommissioning with continuity.
• Align decisions with enterprise reference architecture and AWS cloud direction.

Skills

Solution architecture

Domain architecture

AI-led software engineering

Cloud migration planning

Java/Spring

AWS architecture

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Devin

Codex

GitHub Copilot

Amazon Q Developer

Job description

Cognizant Consulting seeks an AI & Modern Engineering Architect to shape target-state architectures and translate complex legacy findings into modernisation opportunities. You will collaborate with client stakeholders, governance, cloud, engineering, data, integration, testing and operations teams.

You will drive cloud-native, AI-enabled architectures, data migration plans and evidence-based recommendations, ensuring governance and business value.