Senior Enterprise Cloud Modernization Architect

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 116,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Stock Purchase Plan

Parental Leave

Disability insurance

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Principal Architect to translate complex client requirements into scalable, cloud-native solutions and to guide modernization across enterprise platforms. You will lead architecture, implementation, and delivery, leveraging Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Kafka, Python, and MongoDB.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, technical governance, and collaboration with product owners, engineering teams, and clients, with a remote-friendly model for

Qualifications

• 15+ years of architecture and hands-on engineering with Java and cloud tech.
• Experience building secure, highly available AWS-based solutions (ECS/EKS, Lambda, IAM, API Gateway).
• Experience designing event-driven and real-time architectures using Kafka and real-time data patterns.
• Experience leading enterprise platform modernization, CI/CD, observability and engineering-quality practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise architecture and modernization of APIs and legacy platforms on AWS.
• Guide technical transition with knowledge transfer, shadowing and documentation.
• Establish architecture and engineering standards across Java/Spring Boot microservices, REST/SOAP APIs, Python workflows, Kafka and MongoDB.
• Partner with Product Owners and engineering teams on roadmaps, SLAs, KPIs and delivery quality.
• Mentor development, QA, BA and product teams as a senior technical advisor.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

AWS

REST APIs

Kafka

Python

MongoDB

Spring Cloud

Leadership

SAFe

Jira

Tools

Docker

RabbitMQ

Redis

MySQL

Datadog

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking a Principal Architect to translate complex client requirements into scalable, cloud-native solutions and to guide modernization across enterprise platforms. You will lead architecture, implementation, and delivery, leveraging Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Kafka, Python, and MongoDB.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, technical governance, and collaboration with product owners, engineering teams, and clients, with a remote-friendly model for