Senior Enterprise Architect — Remote Strategy & Modernization

Cognizant; City of Albany (NY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays + Paid Time Off

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. The role defines current, transition, and future-state architectures with a focus on data center, storage, and DR capabilities.

Ideal candidates possess deep expertise in architecture frameworks, governance, and strategic roadmaps, and will collaborate with business leaders, security, and vendors to align infrastructure with

Qualifications

• Extensive experience enabling large-scale enterprise infrastructure architectures.
• Proven ability to develop frameworks, standards, governance, and roadmaps.
• Strong knowledge of data center, storage, backup, and security domains.
• Experience with cloud adoption, modernization, and lifecycle management.
• Ability to align architecture with business objectives and risk controls.
• Excellent analytical, presentation, and documentation capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Define current/transition/target-state enterprise architectures aligned to strategy.
• Govern principles, standards, patterns, and roadmaps for data center, storage, and DR.
• Lead assessments for infrastructure transformation and cloud adoption.
• Evaluate solutions with emphasis on scalability, security, cost, and ops.
• Ensure resilience, continuity, capacity planning, and compliance.
• Drive vendor evaluations and proof-of-concept activities for investments.
• Collaborate across teams to maintain architecture alignment throughout projects.
• Create and maintain architecture artifacts, diagrams, and decision records.
• Provide senior technical leadership during incidents and major upgrades.
• Identify opportunities for standardization and automation.

Skills

Senior-level experience

Enterprise infrastructure

Architecture governance

Cross-functional leadership

Security & compliance

Vendor evaluation

Incident leadership

Problem solving & presentation

Distributed/matrixed orgs

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

TOGAF

Zachman

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead strategic design, governance, and modernization of enterprise infrastructure across large IT environments. The role defines current, transition, and future-state architectures with a focus on data center, storage, and DR capabilities.

Ideal candidates possess deep expertise in architecture frameworks, governance, and strategic roadmaps, and will collaborate with business leaders, security, and vendors to align infrastructure with