Remote Enterprise Architect — Infrastructure Strategy Lead

Cognizant; Charleston (WV); Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid 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, databases, and disaster recovery. The role requires deep expertise in architecture standards, governance, and strategic roadmaps, working with business leaders, engineering, security, and vendors to align solutions with objectives.

The ideal candidate will drive architecture standards, facilitate governance across project

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline; Master’s preferred.
• 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 modernization initiatives.
• Proven experience developing enterprise architecture frameworks, standards, governance processes, and strategic 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.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain current-state, transition-state, and target-state enterprise infrastructure architectures.
• Develop and govern architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and roadmaps for data center, database, storage, and DR environments.
• Lead architecture assessments and reviews for cloud adoption, modernization, migration, and lifecycle management.
• Evaluate solutions and provide architectural recommendations focusing on scalability, security, and cost optimization.
• Ensure designs meet resilience, continuity, capacity, and cybersecurity standards.
• Drive vendor evaluations and proof-of-concept activities to support strategic investments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain architecture alignment and governance.
• Create and maintain architecture documentation and reusable reference models.
• Provide senior-level technical leadership during major infrastructure upgrades and transformations.
• Identify opportunities for standardization and automation across the organization.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Governance

Cloud strategy

Stakeholder leadership

Frameworks

Data center

Disaster recovery

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

TOGAF

Zachman

Cloud platforms

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead strategic design, governance, and modernization of enterprise infrastructure across data center, storage, databases, and disaster recovery. The role requires deep expertise in architecture standards, governance, and strategic roadmaps, working with business leaders, engineering, security, and vendors to align solutions with objectives.

The ideal candidate will drive architecture standards, facilitate governance across project