Senior Enterprise Architect: Hybrid Cloud, Security & Governance

Cognizant; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant in Finland is seeking an Enterprise Architect (d/f/m) to lead end-to-end architecture across workplace, data centre, network, security, database, storage, automation and cloud services. This is a senior position requiring 12-15+ years of relevant experience in enterprise infrastructure.

You will chair governance forums, translate requirements into enterprise-wide decisions, maintain current and target state views, and collaborate with stakeholders across security, service management,

Qualifications

• 12–15+ years hands-on Enterprise Architect in enterprise infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise and infrastructure architecture, hybrid/multi-cloud and data centre services.
• Experience with identity, security, network and Zero Trust.
• Experience with integration, resilience, observability and automation.
• Ability to operate within ITSM controls (change, incident, problem, security, audit, service management).
• Strong ownership, analytical troubleshooting, stakeholder communication and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Define target-state enterprise architecture, principles, standards, guardrails and multi-year roadmaps.
• Translate business, regulatory, resilience, security and service requirements into architecture decisions.
• Maintain current-state and target-state views, capability maps and reference architectures.
• Ensure alignment across endpoint, identity, compute, storage, network, database, middleware, public cloud and private cloud designs.
• Chair or support architecture governance, solution reviews, design authority, exception handling, and technical risk decisions.
• Assess solution options for interoperability, scalability, availability, operability, security, cost and technical debt.
• Guide migrations, modernisation, platform consolidation, automation, observability, FinOps, and service transition.
• Collaborate with customer stakeholders, tower architects, delivery leads, security, service management, vendors, and commercial teams.
• Support RFP solutioning, estimates, assumptions, dependencies, risks, technical presentations, and executive decision material.

Skills

Enterprise Architect experience

Hybrid / multi-cloud

Identity & security

Automation & observability

ITSM controls

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Cognizant in Finland is seeking an Enterprise Architect (d/f/m) to lead end-to-end architecture across workplace, data centre, network, security, database, storage, automation and cloud services. This is a senior position requiring 12-15+ years of relevant experience in enterprise infrastructure.

You will chair governance forums, translate requirements into enterprise-wide decisions, maintain current and target state views, and collaborate with stakeholders across security, service management,