Senior Enterprise Architect – CNI & Cloud Strategy Lead

Cognizant; Greater London; Presencial; GBP 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Cognizant Consulting in the UK is seeking an Enterprise Architect (AD / Consulting Principal) to lead the target-state architecture across application, data, integration and cloud for a major gas utility client in critical national infrastructure.

You will chair the Technical Design Authority, steer roadmaps, and ensure designs meet enterprise, security and operational-resilience standards, while sustaining UK-based client-facing accountability for sensitive activities.

Formación

• 15+ years of IT experience with senior enterprise architecture leadership on large, complex estates.
• Proven experience across cloud, data, integration, and application architecture.
• Gas Utility/CNI experience strongly preferred.
• UK-based and able to work on-site in Warwick.

Responsabilidades

• Define and maintain target-state architecture, principles, reference architectures, and transition roadmap.
• Chair and contribute to Technical Design Authority and architecture governance forums.
• Own architectural decisions across multi-hosting estate (GCP, on-prem, IBM, SaaS) and integration landscape.
• Provide architecture input to S/4HANA upgrades, ServiceNow enablement, and Maximo roadmap.
• Ensure designs meet CNI and security compliance obligations.
• Act as senior client-facing architecture authority to CIO and technology leadership.
• Support transition and onshore/offshore delivery with UK-based accountability.

Conocimientos

Enterprise architecture leadership

Cloud architecture

Data architecture

Integration architecture

Executive stakeholder management

Security and resilience

Educación

TOGAF certification or equivalent enterprise architecture qualification

Herramientas

GCP

IBM

SaaS

SAP CPI/PO

Apigee

Maximo

S/4HANA

ServiceNow

Descripción del empleo

Cognizant Consulting in the UK is seeking an Enterprise Architect (AD / Consulting Principal) to lead the target-state architecture across application, data, integration and cloud for a major gas utility client in critical national infrastructure.

You will chair the Technical Design Authority, steer roadmaps, and ensure designs meet enterprise, security and operational-resilience standards, while sustaining UK-based client-facing accountability for sensitive activities.