Remote Enterprise Architect: Infrastructure & Governance

Cognizant; Saint Paul (MN); Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead strategy, governance, and modernization of enterprise infrastructure across large IT environments. You will define current-state, transition-state, and future-state architectures while aligning with business objectives, security requirements, and governance practices.

The role is remote within the USA, offering a competitive salary up to $150K and eligibility for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program based on

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field; Master's preferred.
• 16–20 years of progressive experience in enterprise infrastructure or solution architecture.
• Experience designing and governing large-scale enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Strong expertise in data center technologies, databases, storage, backup, and modernization.
• Experience developing enterprise architecture frameworks, standards, governance, and roadmaps.
• Understanding of security, compliance, risk management, and disaster recovery.
• Experience evaluating emerging technologies and vendor solutions.
• Ability to lead cross-functional architecture discussions with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain current-state, transition-state, and target-state architectures.
• Govern architecture standards, reference architectures, and roadmaps for data center and cloud environments.
• Lead infrastructure assessments for infrastructure transformation, cloud adoption, modernization, migration, consolidation, and lifecycle management.
• Evaluate solutions for scalability, performance, security, availability, cost optimization, and operational support.
• Ensure infrastructure designs meet resilience, disaster recovery, compliance, and cybersecurity standards.
• Drive technology selection processes, vendor evaluations, product assessments, and PoC activities.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, engineering, security, operations, service management, and project teams for governance.
• Create and maintain architecture documentation including standards, design artifacts, and decision records.
• Provide senior-level leadership during critical incidents and major upgrades.
• Identify opportunities for standardization and automation, promoting best practices across the org.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Infrastructure governance

Cloud modernization

Stakeholder leadership

Data center technologies

Security & compliance

Vendor evaluation

Documentation & design artifacts

Disaster recovery planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

TOGAF

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead strategy, governance, and modernization of enterprise infrastructure across large IT environments. You will define current-state, transition-state, and future-state architectures while aligning with business objectives, security requirements, and governance practices.

The role is remote within the USA, offering a competitive salary up to $150K and eligibility for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program based on