Strategic Enterprise Architect — Remote, Modernization Leader

Cognizant; Baton Rouge (LA); Remote; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

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 enterprise infrastructure design, governance, and modernization across data center, storage, and backup platforms. You will define current-state, transition-state, and future-state architectures aligned with business strategies and coordinate with business leaders, engineering, and security teams.

The role emphasizes architecture standards, roadmaps, and governance, with emphasis on cloud adoption, ERP, and scalable solutions.

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.
• 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.

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

Data center tech

Cloud architecture

Vendor evaluations

Stakeholder leadership

Architecture governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Master's degree preferred

Tools

TOGAF framework

Zachman framework

IaC (infrastructure as code)

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead enterprise infrastructure design, governance, and modernization across data center, storage, and backup platforms. You will define current-state, transition-state, and future-state architectures aligned with business strategies and coordinate with business leaders, engineering, and security teams.

The role emphasizes architecture standards, roadmaps, and governance, with emphasis on cloud adoption, ERP, and scalable solutions.