Technical Architect
The Company
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant has over 350,000 employees globally. Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 1000, and the Fortune 500, and is recognized among the fastest growing companies worldwide.
Cognizant Consulting
Cognizant Consulting helps clients to reimagine, redefine, and transform their businesses through technology. We bring unparalleled levels of insight, innovation and delivery velocity to help our clients become digital leaders and enable them to create disruption within their industry. We do this by employing the best people in the industry working with a single-minded focus and a pragmatic, hands-on approach to delivering technology strategy and solutions.
About the Role
We are currently seeking Technical Architects at Senior Manager level to join our team. The candidates will have at least 5+ years’ experience leading architecture engagements and 3+ years’ experience as a Technical Design Authority. This role requires a high level of stakeholder management, the ability to quality assure architecture designs, and coordinate multiple development teams in a complex environment. The candidate will have IT consulting experience or have worked for a system integrator in the public sector.
Responsibilities
Providing technology leadership, delivering high quality, creative and insightful technology advice; you will ensure project success through timely and accurate production of agreed deliverables:
- Shaping, leading and delivering value through technology advisory consultancy and through guiding transformational delivery engagements
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship building skills at senior levels that will enable consensus building and shaping technology direction
- Leading in the development and presentation of client proposals collaborating with teams across our business
- Leading in the development of collateral to support Technology Consulting ‘go to market’ propositions and service offerings
- Farming of accounts - working with account teams to support opportunity identification, qualification and sales
- Contribute to the development of practice members’ skills to ensure a consistency of service delivery and expertise. Active coaching and mentoring of junior members of the team
- Develop, implement, and continually refine a coherent approach and appropriate frameworks to support business transformation proposals, that includes presentations, specimen RFI/RFP content, methodologies, toolkits and deliverables
What we can offer
- A career in one of the largest and fastest growing IT services providers worldwide
- Opportunity to work for the large multinationals and other leading companies
- A highly competitive benefits and salary package
- Ongoing support and funding with training and development plans
- Trust and responsibility to manage and grow your career
- Exposure into international markets and environments
What you’ll bring
The Technical Architect will have set-up and operated a Technical Design Authority (TDA) function. They will be responsible for continuous improvement of the formal governance process and provide technical advice at informal Development Working Group (DWG) sessions. This includes assurance and compliance of high-level and low-level designs (HLDs/LLDs) against agreed architecture principles, standards, and quality guidelines. They will have strong communication skills, gravitas, and be able to exert influence in a complex stakeholder, multi-supplier, heterogenous IT environment.
Core skills and experience:
- Organize and run CTO Office TDA function (i.e., TDA charter, operating model)
- Broad knowledge of technical architectures (e.g., cloud, distributed, monolithic)
- Good coverage of application, data, integration, infrastructure, security domains
- Demonstratable understanding of architecture governance (incl., wavers/deviations)
- Strong understanding of architecture design patterns (incl., integration anti-patterns)
- Strong understanding of modeling notation (e.g., ArchiMate, UML, BPMN)
- Management and recording of key design decisions (i.e., architecture repository)
Desirable skills and experience:
- Familiarity with TOGAF (incl., ADM)
- Familiarity with Sparx EA
- Familiarity with Agile methods (e.g., SCRUM, SAFe)
- Knowledge of analysis and design methods (e.g., Structured, OOAD)
Location
London, United Kingdom (Hybrid – London / Remote)
Security Clearance: SC Clearance required or eligibility to obtain clearance.
About Cognizant:
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.
Additional employment information
Compensation information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
