Senior Enterprise Architect - Remote Infrastructure Strategy

Cognizant; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays & PTO

401(k) plan

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead strategic design, governance, and modernization of enterprise infrastructure across large IT environments. You will define current-state, transition-state, and future-state architectures while aligning with business objectives and technology strategies.

The role requires 16–20 years in enterprise infrastructure, deep data center and storage expertise, and strong governance capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 16 to 20 years of progressive experience in enterprise infrastructure architecture, solution architecture, or infrastructure engineering.
• Extensive experience designing and governing large-scale enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Strong expertise in data center technologies, databases, storage platforms, backup and recovery solutions, and infrastructure modernization initiatives.

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.
• 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.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Data center technologies

Governance & standards

Roadmaps & strategic planning

Vendor evaluations

Cross-functional leadership

Security & compliance

Architecture reviews

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

TOGAF

Zachman

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Infrastructure as code

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead strategic design, governance, and modernization of enterprise infrastructure across large IT environments. You will define current-state, transition-state, and future-state architectures while aligning with business objectives and technology strategies.

The role requires 16–20 years in enterprise infrastructure, deep data center and storage expertise, and strong governance capabilities.