Remote Enterprise Architect - Infrastructure & Roadmap Leader

Cognizant; Indianapolis (IN); Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical 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 strategic design, governance, and modernization of enterprise infrastructure across large IT environments. Remote work in the USA with emphasis on data center, databases, storage, backup, and DR.

The role demands deep expertise in architecture frameworks, security, risk management, and roadmaps while collaborating with business leaders, engineering, security, and vendors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 16 to 20 years of progressive experience in enterprise infrastructure architecture, solution architecture, or infrastructure engineering.
• Extensive experience designing and governing large-scale enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Strong expertise in data center technologies, databases, storage platforms, backup and recovery solutions, and infrastructure modernization initiatives.
• Proven experience developing enterprise architecture frameworks, standards, governance processes, and strategic technology roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure security, compliance controls, risk management, business continuity, and disaster recovery principles.
• Experience evaluating emerging technologies, vendor solutions, and infrastructure platforms to support enterprise technology strategies.
• Ability to lead cross-functional architecture discussions with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, presentation, documentation, and decision-making skills.
• Experience working in geographically distributed and matrixed organizations.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain current-state, transition-state, and target-state enterprise infrastructure architectures aligned with business and technology strategies.
• Develop and govern enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and technology roadmaps for data center, database, storage, backup, and disaster recovery environments.
• Lead architecture assessments and reviews for infrastructure transformation, cloud adoption, modernization, migration, consolidation, and lifecycle management initiatives.
• Evaluate solution alternatives and provide architectural recommendations considering scalability, performance, security, availability, cost optimization, and operational support requirements.
• Ensure infrastructure designs meet enterprise requirements for resilience, disaster recovery, business continuity, capacity planning, compliance, risk management, and cybersecurity standards.
• Drive technology selection processes, vendor evaluations, product assessments, and proof-of-concept activities to support strategic investment decisions.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, engineering, security, operations, service management, and project delivery teams to establish architecture alignment and governance throughout project lifecycles.
• Create and maintain architecture documentation including standards, design artifacts, decision records, exception reviews, system diagrams, and reusable reference models.
• Provide senior-level technical leadership and architectural guidance during complex incidents, critical production issues, major infrastructure upgrades, and enterprise transformation programs.
• Identify opportunities for standardization, automation, operational efficiency, and continuous improvement while promoting architecture best practices across the organization.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Solution architecture

Governance

Vendor evaluation

Cloud strategy

IaC

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead strategic design, governance, and modernization of enterprise infrastructure across large IT environments. Remote work in the USA with emphasis on data center, databases, storage, backup, and DR.

The role demands deep expertise in architecture frameworks, security, risk management, and roadmaps while collaborating with business leaders, engineering, security, and vendors.