Senior Cloud Architect - Enterprise Modernization & Microservices

Cognizant; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 116,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Paid Holidays & PTO

401(k) Plan

Disability Insurance

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Principal Architect to translate complex client requirements into scalable, high‑performing engineering solutions and lead modernization of enterprise platforms. You will guide architecture, implementation, modernization, and continuous delivery with Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Kafka, Python, and MongoDB.

You will drive technical delivery governance, mentor teams, and partner with clients and Product Owners to deliver reliable, scalable backend systems while maintaining strong

Qualifications

• 15+ years of architecture and hands-on engineering experience.
• Experience architecting secure, highly available cloud solutions on AWS (ECS/EKS, Lambda, IAM, API Gateway).
• Designing event-driven and real-time architectures using Apache Kafka and messaging systems.
• Leading enterprise platform modernization, legacy integration, CI/CD, observability, performance, and engineering-quality practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise architecture and modernization: Design scalable target‑state architectures and guide the modernization of enterprise APIs, legacy applications, and complex backend platforms on AWS using microservices and event‑driven architecture.
• Drive technical transition and delivery: Lead technical execution across knowledge acquisition, shadow, and reverse‑shadow transition phases while ensuring technical readiness, knowledge continuity, documentation, and successful handoffs.
• Provide hands‑on engineering leadership: Establish architecture and engineering standards across Java/Spring Boot microservices, REST/SOAP APIs, Python workflows, Apache Kafka, MongoDB, and AWS‑based solutions while guiding code quality, testing, observability, and CI/CD practices.
• Own technical delivery governance: Partner with Product Owners and engineering teams on backlog management, technical roadmaps, dependencies, SLAs/KPIs, performance, and delivery quality across assigned workstreams.
• Partner with clients and engineering teams: Serve as a senior technical advisor to client engineering leads and cross‑functional stakeholders, translating business requirements into technical solutions while mentoring development, QA, BA, and product teams.

Skills

Java & Spring

Cloud AWS

Event-driven architecture

CI/CD & Observability

Tools

RabbitMQ

Redis

MySQL

Docker

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Principal Architect to translate complex client requirements into scalable, high‑performing engineering solutions and lead modernization of enterprise platforms. You will guide architecture, implementation, modernization, and continuous delivery with Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Kafka, Python, and MongoDB.

You will drive technical delivery governance, mentor teams, and partner with clients and Product Owners to deliver reliable, scalable backend systems while maintaining strong