What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating a lot of opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world.
At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative and successful. And this is your chance to be part of the success story: we are looking for a Technical Architect to join our team.
As Certified Technical Architect, you are responsible for analysing and translating business information and technical requirements into architectural blueprints, proposing solutions to achieve complex business objectives, provides guidance on, assists in establishing, and participates in technical governance processes, collaborates on the design and implementation of a platform operating model that improves likelihood of successful go-lives and end-user adoption.
Responsibilities
Architecture & Design Leadership
• Define Platform Architecture: Own the end-to-end technical architecture for the ServiceNow platform, ensuring the solution is scalable, maintainable, secure, and performs optimally across all implemented and planned modules.
• Solution Design: Lead the design and development of High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs) for complex ServiceNow implementations, including multi-instance, global, or highly integrated environments.
• Strategic Alignment: Translate strategic business objectives and technology requirements into concrete, actionable architectural blueprints for the ServiceNow platform.
• Module Expertise: Apply deep knowledge of multiple ServiceNow modules to design cross-functional solutions and ensure proper data model alignment (e.g., CSDM).
Technical Governance and Assurance
• Establish Governance: Define, implement, and lead the technical governance processes (e.g., Design Authority Board) to review and approve all major platform changes, custom application development, and technical designs.
• Best Practices: Enforce ServiceNow best practices, design standards, and development guidelines to minimize technical debt and ensure the "Now Platform" remains evergreen.
• Risk Management: Conduct technical risk assessments and provide architectural assurance for complex projects, ensuring compliance with security protocols, data governance, and regulatory requirements.
Integration and Data Strategy
• Integration Framework: Design and govern secure, high-performance integration patterns (e.g., REST/SOAP APIs, IntegrationHub) between ServiceNow and other enterprise applications, cloud services, and third-party systems.
• Data Architecture: Lead the definition and governance of the ServiceNow data model, including the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) and Common Service Data Model (CSDM), ensuring data integrity and quality.
Leadership, Mentorship, and Stakeholder Engagement
• Technical Authority: Act as the ultimate technical escalation point, resolving complex architectural, performance, and security challenges.
• Mentorship: Coach, mentor, and provide technical guidance to Solution Architects, Developers, and Implementation teams, fostering technical excellence within the practice.
• Stakeholder Communication: Present technical strategies, architectural decisions, and platform roadmaps to a variety of audiences, including C-suite executives, business leaders, and technical teams.
Sales & Pre-Sales Activities
• Supports pre-sales activities including scoping, compilation of estimates and generation of statement of work documents
Requirements
• Certification: Active ServiceNow Certified Technical Architect (CTA) credential is mandatory.
• Experience: Minimum of 8+ years of hands-on experience in ServiceNow solution design, development, and implementation, with at least 3-5 years acting as a Platform or Enterprise Architect.
• Platform Mastery: In-depth, demonstrated expertise across the core ServiceNow platform and multiple major application suites.
• Technical Skills: Expert proficiency in platform security (ACLs, encryption), scripting (JavaScript, GlideScript), data modelling, and integration frameworks. Recent experience with platform components such as flow designer, NOW Experience, Service Portal, ATF, and Integration Hub with addition of NowAssist and NowCreate.
• Enterprise Experience: Proven track record of architecting and leading large-scale, complex, and global ServiceNow deployments.
Preferred
• Additional Certifications: Certified Application Developer (CAD), multiple Certified Implementation Specialist (CIS) certifications (e.g., ITSM, HRSD, ITOM).
• Framework Knowledge: Familiarity with Enterprise Architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) and ITIL processes.
• Delivery Methodologies: Experience with Agile and DevOps methodologies for platform development and release management.
• Language: Fluent English & Dutch, and nice to have any other European language.
What we offer
• A competitive salary based on your qualities and experience
• NS business card to cover your commute expenses
• 25 days of paid holiday per year
• A laptop and a smartphone
• A pension scheme
• Health insurance
• Organization driven by technology – we have a tremendous technology backbone
• Access to Udemy, Cognizant Academy digital libraries for your continuous learning
• Open, ‘can do’ team spirit and international environment that encourages making your ideas reality!
Diversity and Inclusion at Cognizant
At Cognizant, we believe diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our ability to execute successfully and consistently over the long term. We recognize that our people are our most important asset. We strive to create an environment where all associates feel comfortable to be themselves, feel accepted and can therefore thrive both personally and professionally. We continue to drive D&I throughout our organization to unlock the insights, imagination and innovation of our associates, as well as reflect the diversity of our clients and communities. We are a Dutch and European Top Employer and continually drive employment recognition and engagement through employee friendly policies and affinity groups such as “Women Empowered”, “Embrace LGBTQ+” and “Race Equality Network”. For more information, see https://careers.cognizant.com/global/en/diversity-and-inclusion .
Recruiter details
Name: Nikoletta Katona
Email: [email protected]
La Comunidad Cognizant:
Somos un equipo que se aprecia y apoya mutuamente. Nuestros asociados trabajan en un entorno colaborativo e integrador en el que todos pueden prosperar.
- Cognizant es una comunidad global con más de 300.000+ asociados en todo el mundo.
- No solo soñamos con un mundo mejor, sino que trabajamos para hacerlo realidad.
- Cuidamos de nuestros asociados, clientes, socios, comunidades y entorno haciendo lo correcto.
- Fomentamos un entorno innovador en el que puedes desarrollar tu carrera profesional.
Acerca de nosotros
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) es arquitecto de soluciones de IA y proveedor de servicios tecnológicos que traduce la inversión en inteligencia artificial en valor empresarial real mediante soluciones de IA de stack completo adaptadas a cada cliente. Su profundo conocimiento de la industria, los procesos y la ingeniería le permite integrar el contexto único de cada organización en sistemas tecnológicos que amplifican el potencial humano, generan un impacto real en el negocio y mantienen a las grandes empresas globales un paso adelante en un mundo en constante cambio. Para más información, visita www.cognizant.es o síguenos en @cognizant.
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