Remote Enterprise Architect - Strategy Leader

Cognizant; Cheyenne (WY); Remote; USD 105,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

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 for large IT environments. Remote work available in the USA, with emphasis on governance, standards, and roadmaps across data center, databases, and disaster recovery.

The role requires deep expertise in enterprise architecture, governance, and strategic roadmaps, collaborating with business leaders, engineering, security, and vendors to align

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; Master's preferred.
• 16–20 years of progressive experience in enterprise infrastructure / solution architecture.
• Experience designing and governing large-scale enterprise infrastructure.
• Strong expertise in data center technologies, databases, storage, backup and recovery.
• Proven experience developing architectures, standards, governance and roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of security, compliance, risk management, and disaster recovery.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain current/transition/target-state architectures aligned with business and tech strategies.
• Develop standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and roadmaps for data center, storage, and DR environments.
• Lead architecture assessments for infrastructure transformation, cloud adoption, modernization, and consolidation.
• Evaluate solutions considering scalability, performance, security, availability, cost, and operational support.
• Ensure designs meet resilience, continuity, capacity planning, and cybersecurity standards.
• Drive vendor evaluations and proof-of-concept activities to support strategic investments.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to ensure architecture alignment and governance.
• Create and maintain architecture documentation and decision records.
• Provide senior leadership during complex incidents and major upgrades.
• Identify opportunities for standardization and automation to improve operations.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Data center tech

Governance processes

Roadmaps

Cloud (hybrid/multi-cloud)

Security/compliance

Vendor evaluations

Cross-functional leadership

Architecture documentation

Incident leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

TOGAF

Zachman

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead strategic design, governance, and modernization of enterprise infrastructure for large IT environments. Remote work available in the USA, with emphasis on governance, standards, and roadmaps across data center, databases, and disaster recovery.

The role requires deep expertise in enterprise architecture, governance, and strategic roadmaps, collaborating with business leaders, engineering, security, and vendors to align