Remote Principal Architect — Cloud-Native Modernization

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Helena (MT); Remote; USD 116,000 - 175,000; 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 Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Principal Architect to translate complex client requirements into scalable, high-performing engineering solutions and drive modernization of enterprise platforms.

You will lead architecture across API modernization, legacy integration, and cloud-native implementations on AWS, using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Python, and MongoDB, while guiding CI/CD, observability, and delivery quality.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of architecture and hands-on engineering experience with Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, microservices, distributed systems, and REST/SOAP APIs.
• Experience designing secure, highly available cloud solutions on AWS (ECS/EKS, Lambda, IAM, API Gateway).
• Experience with event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka and asynchronous integration patterns.
• Proven track record leading enterprise platform modernization, CI/CD, observability, performance, and engineering-quality practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise architecture and modernization across APIs, legacy systems, and backend platforms on AWS using microservices and event-driven design.
• Drive technical transition and delivery with knowledge capture, shadow transition, and successful handoffs.
• Provide hands-on engineering leadership and set architecture/engineering standards for Java/Spring Boot microservices, REST/SOAP APIs, Python workflows, Kafka, MongoDB, and AWS solutions.
• Own governance of technical delivery: backlogs, roadmaps, SLAs/KPIs, performance, and delivery quality across workstreams.
• Mentor client engineering leads and cross-functional teams, translating business requirements into technical solutions.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Spring Cloud

Microservices

Distributed systems

REST APIs

SOAP APIs

Tools

Jira

Confluence

ServiceNow

Postman

SoapUI

RabbitMQ

Redis

MySQL

Docker

Datadog

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Principal Architect to translate complex client requirements into scalable, high-performing engineering solutions and drive modernization of enterprise platforms.

You will lead architecture across API modernization, legacy integration, and cloud-native implementations on AWS, using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Python, and MongoDB, while guiding CI/CD, observability, and delivery quality.