Sr. Consulting Manager (Technical Architect )

Cognizant; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary package

Training and development plans

Hybrid work arrangement

Exposure to international markets

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to lead architecture engagements and act as a Design Authority. You will coordinate multiple delivery teams, shape technology direction, and ensure governance across complex programs.

Hybrid London/Remote role with exposure to major clients and transformation initiatives. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in architecture leadership, strong stakeholder skills, and experience in IT consulting or SI in the public sector.

Qualifications

• Broad knowledge of technical architectures (cloud, distributed, monolithic).
• Strong understanding of architecture governance and related decision processes.
• Strong understanding of architecture design patterns and modeling notation (ArchiMate, UML).
• Experience coordinating multiple development teams and coaching junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide technology leadership and high-quality advisory services for transformation engagements.
• Lead and coordinate client proposals and collateral for Technology Consulting go-to-market.
• Ensure governance and architecture compliance across project delivery and DWG sessions.
• Mentor and develop consulting staff to ensure consistent service delivery.

Skills

Technical architecture

Stakeholder management

Architecture governance

Architecture design patterns

Modeling notation

Design decisions management

Tools

Sparx EA

Job description

Technical Architect

The Company

Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant has over 350,000 employees globally. Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 1000, and the Fortune 500, and is recognized among the fastest growing companies worldwide.

Cognizant Consulting

Cognizant Consulting helps clients to reimagine, redefine, and transform their businesses through technology. We bring unparalleled levels of insight, innovation and delivery velocity to help our clients become digital leaders and enable them to create disruption within their industry. We do this by employing the best people in the industry working with a single-minded focus and a pragmatic, hands‑on approach to delivering technology strategy and solutions.

About the Role

We are currently seeking Technical Architects at Senior Manager level to join our team. The candidates will have at least 5+ years’ experience leading architecture engagements and 3+ years’ experience as a Technical Design Authority. This role requires a high level of stakeholder management, the ability to quality assure architecture designs, and coordinate multiple development teams in a complex environment. The candidate will have IT consulting experience or have worked for a system integrator in the public sector.

Responsibilities

Providing technology leadership, delivering high quality, creative and insightful technology advice; you will ensure project success through timely and accurate production of agreed deliverables:

• Shaping, leading and delivering value through technology advisory consultancy and through guiding transformational delivery engagements
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship building skills at senior levels that will enable consensus building and shaping technology direction
• Leading in the development and presentation of client proposals collaborating with teams across our business
• Leading in the development of collateral to support Technology Consulting 'go to market' propositions and service offerings
• Farming of accounts - working with account teams to support opportunity identification, qualification and sales
• Contribute to the development of practice members’ skills to ensure a consistency of service delivery and expertise. Active coaching and mentoring of junior members of the team
• Develop, implement, and continually refine a coherent approach and appropriate frameworks to support business transformation proposals, that includes presentations, specimen RFI/RFP content, methodologies, toolkits and deliverables

What we can offer

• A career in one of the largest and fastest growing IT services providers worldwide
• Opportunity to work for the large multinationals and other leading companies
• A highly competitive benefits and salary package
• Ongoing support and funding with training and development plans
• Trust and responsibility to manage and grow your career
• Exposure into international markets and environments

What you'll bring

The Technical Architect will have set-up and operated a Technical Design Authority (TDA) function. They will be responsible for continuous improvement of the formal governance process and provide technical advice at informal Development Working Group (DWG) sessions. This includes assurance and compliance of high-level and low-level designs (HLDs/LLDs) against agreed architecture principles, standards, and quality guidelines. They will have strong communication skills, gravitas, and be able to exert influence in a complex stakeholder, multi-supplier, heterogenous IT environment.

Core skills and experience:

• Organize and run CTO Office TDA function (i.e., TDA charter, operating model)
• Broad knowledge of technical architectures (e.g., cloud, distributed, monolithic)
• Good coverage of application, data, integration, infrastructure, security domains
• Demonstratable understanding of architecture governance (incl., wavers/deviations)
• Strong understanding of architecture design patterns (incl., integration anti-patterns)
• Strong understanding of modeling notation (e.g., ArchiMate, UML, BPMN)
• Management and recording of key design decisions (i.e., architecture repository)

Desirable skills and experience:

• Familiarity with TOGAF (incl., ADM)
• Familiarity with Sparx EA
• Familiarity with Agile methods (e.g., SCRUM, SAFe)
• Knowledge of analysis and design methods (e.g., Structured, OOAD)

Location

London, United Kingdom (Hybrid - London / Remote)

Security Clearance

SC Clearance required or eligibility to obtain clearance.