Senior Enterprise Architect – Remote Modernization

Cognizant; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

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 design, governance, and modernization of enterprise infrastructure across large IT environments. Remote work in the USA is supported with flexibility to align with business needs.

The role requires senior-level expertise in data center, storage, backup, and disaster recovery, plus strong leadership and vendor evaluation abilities. This position emphasizes strategic roadmaps and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline.
• 16 to 20 years of progressive experience in enterprise infrastructure architecture.
• 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.
• Proven experience developing enterprise architecture frameworks, standards, governance processes, and strategic technology roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure security, compliance controls, risk management, business continuity, and disaster recovery principles.
• Experience evaluating emerging technologies, vendor solutions, and infrastructure platforms to support enterprise technology strategies.
• Ability to lead cross-functional architecture discussions with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, presentation, documentation, and decision-making skills.
• Experience working in geographically distributed and matrixed organizations.

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.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Architecture governance

Roadmaps

Stakeholder management

Cloud architecture

Security governance

Documentation

Leadership

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

TOGAF

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead design, governance, and modernization of enterprise infrastructure across large IT environments. Remote work in the USA is supported with flexibility to align with business needs.

The role requires senior-level expertise in data center, storage, backup, and disaster recovery, plus strong leadership and vendor evaluation abilities. This position emphasizes strategic roadmaps and cross-functional collaboration.