Job Description:

An Enterprise architect with a proven track record in architecting for a large-scale delivery in a multi-site, multi supplier environment.

1. Work hand in hand with Customer Enterprise Architecture (EA) team (be part of them) and jointly share their goals.

2. Work across EA Services including Business Technology Strategy, Roadmap, Architecture Development, Architecture Governance, Innovation and Application Portfolio Management (APM).

3. Should be able to understand enterprise holistically across various technology domains such as infrastructure, data, integration, ERP, CRM, AI, Security etc.

4. Should have good business acumen and should be able to quickly understand and align to customer business domains, their value streams, and capabilities.

5. Help customers evolve through their EA office maturity from current to improved level including helping them define optimized EA org structure, architecture development method, Governance Process, APM tools implementation etc.

6. Must be willing to perform typical Enterprise Architect type of work – A lot abstract, research, product evaluations, strategic, directional and governance work, presentations etc.

7. Good understanding of Architecture patterns/ Style/ Design Patterns along with a range of technical architectures

8. Require Complex problem-solving skills, good documentation, presentation skills with client enterprise architects and CxO.

9. Expertise in one of the cloud platforms – AWS/ Azure/ GCP/ OpenShift/ PCF (customer preferred choice)

10. Ability to Integrate multiple systems within an enterprise and to design an end-to-end solution.

11. A good understanding of web technologies and concepts, tool-based approaches, web security and open-source products.

12. Experience in Data Architecture, one RDBMS and One NoSQL DB

13. Experience in providing enterprise integration to products such as SAP, Sales Force, and ServiceNow has an added advantage.

14. Good understanding of DevSecOps & Automation

15. Practical experience of Agile & Iterative delivery methodologies

16. TOGAF type of enterprise architecture certification is preferred. But not mandatory

Skills:

Expertise in one of the technologies - Java or .NET

Expertise in one of the cloud platforms – AWS/ Azure/ GCP/ OpenShift/ PCF

Experience in AI / ML including Generative AI

Send your resume to jwalesh.b@cognizant.com

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