Remote Enterprise Architect - Infrastructure Strategy Lead

Cognizant; Carson City (NV); Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

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 data center, storage, and backup platforms. This remote USA role collaborates with business leaders, engineering, security, and technology vendors to ensure architectures align with business objectives.

The candidate will define current-state, transition-state, and future-state architectures while driving governance, standards, and roadmaps for

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering; master's preferred.
• 16–20 years in enterprise infrastructure architecture or related fields.
• Experience designing and governing large-scale enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain current-state, transition-state, and target-state architectures.
• Develop standards, reference architectures, and roadmaps for data center, storage, backup, and DR.
• Lead assessments for infrastructure modernization, cloud adoption, and migration initiatives.
• Evaluate solutions with focus on scalability, security, and cost optimization.
• Ensure designs meet resiliency, compliance, and business-continuity requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align governance across lifecycles.
• Create architecture documentation and decision records.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Governance

Architecture standards

Roadmaps

Data center tech

Disaster recovery

Cloud strategy

Vendor evaluation

Cross-functional leadership

Security principles

TOGAF knowledge

Cloud modernization

Education

Bachelor's degree

16–20 years experience

Master's degree

Tools

TOGAF

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead strategic design, governance, and modernization of enterprise infrastructure across data center, storage, and backup platforms. This remote USA role collaborates with business leaders, engineering, security, and technology vendors to ensure architectures align with business objectives.

The candidate will define current-state, transition-state, and future-state architectures while driving governance, standards, and roadmaps for