Remote Senior Cloud Solutions Architect — FedRAMP High

Cognizant; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to define and drive secure, scalable architectures for financial services platforms in a FedRAMP High government cloud environment.

You will collaborate with engineering, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, compliance, and business stakeholders to modernize platforms and deliver secure cloud-native solutions. This role emphasizes architecture standards, security controls, and production readiness.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software architecture, solution architecture, or enterprise architecture roles.
• Strong experience designing and delivering solutions within regulated financial services environments, including banking, securities servicing, capital markets, trust, custody, or transfer agency platforms.
• Expertise with Azure Government and cloud-native architecture principles, including APIs, microservices, containers, and distributed systems.
• Hands‑on experience with enterprise application platforms such as .NET or Java and modern integration architectures.
• Strong knowledge of FedRAMP High, NIST 800-53 controls, secure SDLC practices, identity and access management, and cloud security frameworks.
• Experience leading architecture reviews and driving scalability, resiliency, observability, and operational excellence initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Design cloud-native, highly available, and secure architectures supporting financial services platforms, transfer agency operations, securities processing, reporting, and client integrations.
• Define enterprise architecture standards for APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, data management, integration patterns, and security controls.
• Partner with cybersecurity and DevSecOps teams to align solutions with FedRAMP High, NIST 800-53, Zero Trust, identity and access management, encryption, audit logging, and continuous monitoring requirements.
• Review and govern solution designs to ensure scalability, resiliency, performance, operational readiness, and long-term maintainability.
• Lead architecture modernization efforts and provide guidance on technical strategy, risk management, and production support models.

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to define and drive secure, scalable architectures for financial services platforms in a FedRAMP High government cloud environment.

You will collaborate with engineering, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, compliance, and business stakeholders to modernize platforms and deliver secure cloud-native solutions. This role emphasizes architecture standards, security controls, and production readiness.