Remote Senior Enterprise Architect, Cloud Modernization

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Augusta (ME); Remote; USD 116,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

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 in the United States.

The role focuses on leading architecture across APIs, legacy systems, and backend platforms on AWS, leveraging microservices, Kafka, Python, and MongoDB, while guiding CI/CD, observability, and delivery quality.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of architecture and hands-on engineering in Java/Spring/AWS.
• Experience designing cloud solutions on AWS with ECS/EKS, Lambda, IAM, and API Gateway.
• Experience designing event-driven and real-time architectures using Apache Kafka, messaging technologies, and asynchronous integration patterns.
• Experience leading enterprise platform modernization, legacy integration, technical transition, CI/CD, observability, performance, and engineering-quality practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise architecture and modernization of APIs and legacy apps on AWS.
• Provide hands-on engineering leadership across Java/Spring Boot microservices, REST/SOAP APIs, Python workflows, Kafka, MongoDB, and AWS-based solutions.
• Own technical delivery governance: manage roadmaps, dependencies, SLAs/KPIs, and delivery quality across workstreams.
• Partner with Product Owners and engineering teams; mentor development, QA, BA, and product teams.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Cloud architecture

Microservices

Distributed systems

REST/SOAP APIs

Tools

Jira

Confluence

ServiceNow

Postman

SoapUI

RabbitMQ

Redis

MySQL

Docker

Datadog

Kubernetes

AWS

ECS/EKS

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 in the United States.

The role focuses on leading architecture across APIs, legacy systems, and backend platforms on AWS, leveraging microservices, Kafka, Python, and MongoDB, while guiding CI/CD, observability, and delivery quality.