Remote Enterprise Architect: Strategy & Modernization

Cognizant; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Insurance

Paid holidays

401(k) plan

Disability

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead the design, governance, and modernization of enterprise infrastructure across large-scale IT environments. You will define current, transition, and future-state architectures and collaborate with business leaders, engineering, security, and vendors.

The role requires 16–20 years in enterprise infrastructure, Bachelor's or Master's, and strong data center, storage, and cloud modernization experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; Master's preferred.
• 16 to 20 years of progressive experience in enterprise infrastructure architecture or related field.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain current-state, transition-state, and target-state architectures.
• Maintain architecture principles, standards, and roadmaps for data center, storage, and DR.
• Lead assessments for cloud adoption, modernization, and lifecycle management.
• Evaluate options and provide architectural recommendations on scalability, security, and cost.
• Ensure designs meet resilience, compliance, and business-continuity requirements.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Governance

Cloud/Data center

Strategic roadmaps

Stakeholder collaboration

Security/compliance

Incident leadership

Vendor evaluation

Architecture documentation

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Master's degree preferred

Tools

TOGAF

Zachman

Cloud platforms like AWS/Azure/GCP

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead the design, governance, and modernization of enterprise infrastructure across large-scale IT environments. You will define current, transition, and future-state architectures and collaborate with business leaders, engineering, security, and vendors.

The role requires 16–20 years in enterprise infrastructure, Bachelor's or Master's, and strong data center, storage, and cloud modernization experience.