Senior AWS WorkSpaces Migration Architect

Cognizant; Boise (ID); Remote; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contributions

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced AWS WorkSpaces Migration Architect to lead large-scale EUC transformation and VDI migrations to AWS WorkSpaces. You will design, architect, and deliver secure, scalable environments while guiding migration strategy, image management, and automation.

The ideal candidate has deep expertise in AWS WorkSpaces, Terraform, FSLogix, CI/CD automation, and enterprise-grade architectures, with strong client-facing capabilities and hands-on delivery experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field.
• 14+ years of EUC, VDI, Desktop Virtualization, or Cloud Workspace experience.
• 8+ years of hands-on AWS cloud services and AWS WorkSpaces.
• Proven experience leading large-scale desktop migration and workplace modernization.
• Strong client-facing consulting and architecture experience.
• Experience in enterprise-scale environments with thousands of virtual desktop users.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end discovery, assessment, application dependency mapping, sizing analysis, and migration planning for AWS WorkSpaces transformations.
• Define migration roadmaps, pilot deployments, waves, cutover and rollback strategies.
• Architect, deploy, and optimize AWS WorkSpaces Personal and Pools environments.
• Design desktop pool strategies aligned with personas, productivity, and security.
• Develop scalable AWS WorkSpaces architectures including HA and DR solutions.
• Create and implement user profile persistence strategies with FSLogix, Profile Containers, and related tech.
• Recommend desktop delivery models (Persistent/Non-Persistent/Hybrid) per requirements.
• Optimize application delivery, personalization, and data access in the VDI environment.
• Establish Golden Image Management and image lifecycle/automation standards.
• Develop Terraform IaC modules for AWS WorkSpaces, VPC, networking, IAM.
• Design CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and CodePipeline.
• Enable GitOps, automated testing, compliance validation, and release governance.
• Collaborate with clients, cloud/security teams, and operations for knowledge transfer.

Skills

AWS WorkSpaces

Terraform

FSLogix

CI/CD automation

Image Management

GA/DevOps tooling

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Client-facing consulting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Git

GitHub

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced AWS WorkSpaces Migration Architect to lead large-scale EUC transformation and VDI migrations to AWS WorkSpaces. You will design, architect, and deliver secure, scalable environments while guiding migration strategy, image management, and automation.

The ideal candidate has deep expertise in AWS WorkSpaces, Terraform, FSLogix, CI/CD automation, and enterprise-grade architectures, with strong client-facing capabilities and hands-on delivery experience.