Remote Enterprise Architect: Infrastructure Modernization

Cognizant; Wayzata (MN); Remote; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + PTO

401(k) plan

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Parental leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead strategy, design, and governance of enterprise infrastructure across data centers, databases, storage, and backup. You will define current/transition/future-state architectures and drive modernization efforts while collaborating with business leaders, security, operations, and vendors.

Ideal candidates have deep expertise in infrastructure architecture, standards, and roadmaps, plus strong leadership in large, distributed organizations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline (Master's preferred).
• 16 to 20 years of progressive experience in enterprise infrastructure architecture or related roles.
• Extensive experience designing and governing large-scale enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Strong expertise in data center technologies, databases, storage, backup, and DR.
• Proven experience developing enterprise architecture frameworks, standards, governance, and roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of security, compliance, risk management, business continuity, and DR principles.
• Experience evaluating emerging technologies and vendor solutions.
• Ability to lead cross-functional architecture discussions with stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, presentation, documentation, and decision-making skills.
• Experience in distributed and matrixed organizations.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain current-state, transition-state, and target-state architectures.
• Govern standards, reference architectures, and roadmaps for data center, storage, and DR.
• Lead architecture assessments for cloud adoption and modernization initiatives.
• Evaluate solutions considering scalability, security, cost, and operations.
• Ensure designs meet resilience, compliance, and cyber standards.
• Drive vendor evaluations and proof-of-concept activities.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure architecture alignment through lifecycles.
• Create and maintain architecture documentation and decision records.
• Provide senior technical leadership during incidents and major upgrades.
• Identify opportunities for standardization and automation.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Data center tech

Storage & backup

Governance standards

Roadmaps & patterns

Security & risk

Cloud strategy

Vendor evaluation

Cross-functional leadership

Automation / IaC

Disaster recovery

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

TOGAF

AWS / Azure / GCP

Automation tooling

Job description

Cognizant seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead strategy, design, and governance of enterprise infrastructure across data centers, databases, storage, and backup. You will define current/transition/future-state architectures and drive modernization efforts while collaborating with business leaders, security, operations, and vendors.

Ideal candidates have deep expertise in infrastructure architecture, standards, and roadmaps, plus strong leadership in large, distributed organizations.