Remote Enterprise Architect — Infrastructure & Roadmap Leader

Cognizant; Sacramento (CA); Remote; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contributions

Paid holidays plus PTO

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead design, governance, and modernization of enterprise infrastructure across data centers, storage, backup, and DR. The role partners with business leaders, engineering, security, and vendors to align architectures with business objectives.

The incumbent will define current, transition, and future-state architectures, advance standards, and drive strategic roadmaps while ensuring resilience and cost optimization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or related field; master's preferred.
• 16–20 years of progressive experience in enterprise infrastructure architecture.
• Experience designing and governing large-scale enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Strong security, compliance, risk management, and disaster recovery knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain current-state, transition-state, and target-state architectures.
• Govern standards, reference architectures, and technology roadmaps for data center, storage, backup, and DR.
• Lead architecture assessments for cloud adoption, modernization, and migrations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure architecture governance.

Skills

Enterprise infrastructure architecture

Architecture governance

Cross-functional leadership

Vendor evaluations

Cloud & multi-cloud

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

TOGAF/Zachman frameworks

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

Cognizant seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead design, governance, and modernization of enterprise infrastructure across data centers, storage, backup, and DR. The role partners with business leaders, engineering, security, and vendors to align architectures with business objectives.

The incumbent will define current, transition, and future-state architectures, advance standards, and drive strategic roadmaps while ensuring resilience and cost optimization.