SharePoint SPFx Architect

Cognizant; Pune District, Chennai District, Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an SPFx Architect to own solution design across SharePoint Online, SPFx, and Power Platform. This design-authority role sets architecture, governs build-vs-buy decisions, and defines standards for secure, scalable solutions.

You will prototype when needed, challenge approaches, and drive governance across teams, ensuring alignment with client modernization roadmaps and SOWs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in SharePoint/M365 architecture
• Ability to design end-to-end SPFx and Power Platform solutions
• Proven governance, security, and ALM capabilities
• Experience producing architecture artifacts and governance documents
• Strong client-facing and proposal support skills

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution architecture for SPFx and Power Platform engagements.
• Make key technical decisions: SPFx vs Power Platform vs out-of-the-box.
• Define authentication and security architecture (Entra ID, Graph).
• Establish and maintain development standards, ALM, and governance.
• Provide architectural governance and design reviews for deliverables.
• Advise on modernization roadmaps and platform capabilities.
• Identify risks around performance, licensing, and long-term support.

Skills

SPFx architecture

SharePoint Online

Power Platform

M365 security and identity

architecture artifacts

Education

PL-600 / MS-600 / Azure/M365 architect credentials

Tools

Microsoft Graph

Entra ID

Dataverse

Azure Functions

Logic Apps

API Management

PowerShell

Job description

Job Title: SPFx Architect - Power Platform

Location: Pan India

Role Summary

We are looking for an Architect who owns the solution design across SharePoint Online, SPFx, and Power Platform. This is a design-authority role. You set the architecture, make the build-versus-buy and platform choices, define governance, and ensure what the teams build is secure, scalable, and maintainable. You are still technically deep enough to prototype and to challenge a developer's approach, but your primary output is design, direction, and standards rather than day-to-day feature code.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution architecture for SPFx and Power Platform engagements, from requirements through to a documented target design.
• Make the key technical decisions: SPFx versus Power Platform versus out-of-the-box, canvas versus model-driven, Dataverse versus SharePoint as the data layer, and where custom code is justified.
• Define authentication and security architecture, including Entra ID app registrations, permission scoping, least-privilege consent, and API access patterns via Microsoft Graph.
• Establish and maintain development standards, ALM strategy, environment/tenant governance, and reusable components across teams.
• Provide architectural governance and design review for the work that Leads and developers deliver.
• Advise clients and internal stakeholders on modernization roadmaps, platform capabilities, and effort/complexity trade-offs, and support proposals and SOWs with credible solution designs.
• Anticipate risks around performance, licensing, tenant limits, and long-term supportability, and design around them.

Must-Have Skills

• Strong architecture-level command of SharePoint Online, SPFx, and the broader M365 platform.
• Deep Power Platform expertise across Power Apps, Power Automate, and Dataverse, including environment strategy and DLP/governance.
• Solid grasp of Entra ID, Microsoft Graph, and M365 security and identity models.
• Ability to produce clear architecture artifacts: solution designs, integration flows, and governance documents.
• Track record of designing solutions that other teams then build and support.

Good-to-Have Skills

• SharePoint on-premises (2019/SPSE) and hybrid architecture for clients still on-prem or mid-migration.
• Copilot Studio and agentic/AI solution design.
• Azure integration services (Functions, Logic Apps, API Management) where solutions extend beyond M365.
• PowerShell for M365 administration and automation.

Experience & Qualifications

• Typically 10+ years across SharePoint and M365, with demonstrable architecture ownership on real engagements.
• Certifications such as PL-600, MS-600, or Azure/M365 architect-level credentials are strongly preferred.

Soft Skills

• Able to hold a design position with clients and internal teams and justify it clearly.

Strong written communication for architecture documentation and proposal support.