Remote Enterprise Architect – Infrastructure Strategy

Cognizant; Des Moines (IA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Paid Time Off

Disability insurance

Parental leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead the design, governance, and modernization of our enterprise infrastructure across large IT environments. You will shape current, transition, and target architectures to align with business goals and technology strategies.

The role requires deep expertise in data center, database, storage, backup, and DR, plus strong governance and roadmapping capabilities. Remote USA-based work is available with Cognizant's flexible model.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 16–20 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.

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

Governance

Roadmaps

Stakeholder leadership

Data center expertise

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

TOGAF

Zachman

Cloud platforms

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead the design, governance, and modernization of our enterprise infrastructure across large IT environments. You will shape current, transition, and target architectures to align with business goals and technology strategies.

The role requires deep expertise in data center, database, storage, backup, and DR, plus strong governance and roadmapping capabilities. Remote USA-based work is available with Cognizant's flexible model.