Senior Enterprise Architect - Infra & Cloud Strategy

Cognizant

Bismarck (ND)

Remote

USD 120,000 - 150,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead the strategic design, governance, and modernization of enterprise infrastructure across data centers, databases, storage, and backup platforms, ensuring alignment with business objectives.

The role demands 16–20 years of experience, familiarity with frameworks such as TOGAF, and strong collaboration with business leaders, security teams, and vendors. Remote USA work is supported where feasible.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline. Master's degree preferred.
16 to 20 years of progressive experience in enterprise infrastructure architecture or related fields.
Extensive experience designing and governing large-scale enterprise infrastructure environments.

Responsibilities

Define and maintain current-state, transition-state, and target-state enterprise infrastructure architectures aligned with business and technology strategies.
Develop and govern enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and technology roadmaps for data center, database, storage, backup, and disaster recovery environments.
Lead architecture assessments and reviews for infrastructure transformation, cloud adoption, modernization, migration, consolidation, and lifecycle management initiatives.
Evaluate solution alternatives and provide architectural recommendations considering scalability, performance, security, availability, cost optimization, and operational support requirements.
Ensure infrastructure designs meet enterprise requirements for resilience, disaster recovery, business continuity, capacity planning, compliance, risk management, and cybersecurity standards.
Drive technology selection processes, vendor evaluations, product assessments, and proof-of-concept activities to support strategic investment decisions.
Collaborate with infrastructure, engineering, security, operations, service management, and project delivery teams to establish architecture alignment and governance throughout project lifecycles.
Create and maintain architecture documentation including standards, design artifacts, decision records, exception reviews, system diagrams, and reusable reference models.
Provide senior-level technical leadership and architectural guidance during complex incidents, critical production issues, major infrastructure upgrades, and enterprise transformation programs.
Identify opportunities for standardization, automation, operational efficiency, and continuous improvement while promoting architecture best practices across the organization.