Principal Architect

Cognizant; Telangana; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a senior-level architect to drive platform architecture and technical direction across multiple complex systems. You will collaborate with senior engineers and platform owners to shape standards and guide teams through design and implementation of scalable, cloud-native solutions.

Focus areas include microservices, data management, APIs, and robust, highly available architectures aligned with enterprise goals.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of web-development or solutions architecture experience.
• End-to-end software development of complex multi-tiered systems.
• Experience with multiple IT disciplines and architectural concepts.
• Experience with system and process analysis.
• Experience implementing large-scale technological enhancements or pivots.
• Experience working with data and DBMS, including legacy and emerging database technologies.
• Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL.
• Experience building highly available customer-facing applications in a GDHA setting.
• Experience building cloud-native applications.
• Experience with APIs.
• Experience designing highly available and resilient solutions and transforming monolith to microservices architecture.
• Experience in infrastructure, security, DevOps, application development, or cloud computing (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• A bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in computer science or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Set the platform’s technical direction and strategic objectives with Senior engineers and platform owner.
• Align with central architecture to influence standards and enterprise objectives.
• Participate in design and code reviews to ensure delivery and standards.
• Drive architecture decisions to solve complex problems for platforms.
• Guide technical platform architecture with Senior architects and engineering teams.
• Push architecture toward long-term business goals and collaborate with leadership on priorities.
• Capture best practices and share reference architectures.
• Network with peers on technical matters and prototype designs.
• Contribute to enterprise-wide research projects.

Skills

Web development

Solutions architecture

End-to-end development

Architectural concepts

System analysis

Data & DBMS

RDBMS

NoSQL

Cloud-native apps

APIs

Microservices

Cloud computing (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Job description

Experience & Skills

• 10+ years of web-development or solutions architecture experience
• Hands-on experience with end-to-end software development of complex multi-tiered systems
• Experience with multiple IT disciplines with a confirmed understanding of relevant architectural concepts
• Experience using system and process analysis
• Experience implementing large-scale technological enhancements or pivots, including pilot implementations and analysis
• Experience working with data and DBMS, including legacy and emerging database technologies
• Experience with RDBMS, NoSQL.
• Experience building highly available customer-facing applications, in a GDHA setting
• Experience building cloud-native applications
• Experience with API’s
• Experience designing highly available and resilient solutions, Automation, identify opportunity of performance improvements, Able to transform traditional monolith architecture.
• Stack to modern microservices based loosely decoupled architecture.
• Experience in 2 or 3 of the following technology areas. Infrastructure, Security, DevOps, Application Development, Database technologies, Cloud computing(AWS, Azure, GCP)
• A bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in computer science or a related field

Role Responsibilities

• Work with Senior level engineers, architects and platform owner to set the platform’s technical direction and strategic objectives.
• Align efforts with central architecture function to influence technical standards and progress enterprise objectives.
• Participate in design and code reviews to ensure both delivery of desired business outcomes and alignment to enterprise standards.
• Drive key architecture decisions to solve critical complex problems for assigned and adjacent platforms.
• Work with the company platform Owner and Senior architects to guide technical platform architecture and engineering teams.
• Focus on driving architecture towards long-term business unit/enterprise goals and objectives. Partner with business Leadership to influence priorities and objectives.
• Capture best practice knowledge from engineering and field teams and share reference architectures and patterns with technical teams.
• Network with peers on technical matters, design prototypes, system designs and enterprise-wide research projects.