Job summary
The Architect role requires twelve to fifteen years of experience designing and delivering scalable cloud solutions using AWS in a hybrid work environment. The candidate will design secure and resilient architectures mentor technical peers and ensure that cloud platforms meet business outcomes regulatory expectations and operational excellence goals for a large global organization.
Responsibilities
- Design robust AWS architectures that align with enterprise standards and support highly available and scalable applications for complex business domains
- Develop end to end cloud solutions that integrate compute storage network and security services to meet functional and non functional requirements for critical platforms
- Coordinate with product owners and engineering teams to translate business objectives into detailed AWS solution designs that can be implemented efficiently
- Define reference architectures and cloud design patterns that promote reuse consistency and operational efficiency across multiple programs and application portfolios
- Review solution proposals from project teams and provide clear architectural guidance to optimize performance cost security and long term maintainability
- Create detailed architecture documents diagrams and technical narratives that clearly describe how AWS services will be orchestrated and governed in production environments
- Collaborate with security and compliance teams to embed strong identity access management encryption and monitoring practices into all AWS designs and implementations
- Guide development and operations teams on best practices for AWS deployment automation observability and incident resilience using modern cloud tooling and workflows
- Conduct architecture assessments and cloud readiness reviews to identify risks dependencies and optimization opportunities in existing or planned AWS workloads
- Drive continuous improvement by analyzing system performance metrics and recommending architectural enhancements that improve reliability scalability and cost efficiency
- Engage with stakeholders across technology and business functions to explain architecture decisions tradeoffs and benefits in clear and accessible language
- Mentor colleagues by sharing cloud architecture knowledge patterns and lessons learned to raise overall technical maturity within the organization
- Align architecture roadmaps with organizational strategy ensuring that AWS adoption supports long term innovation sustainability and positive societal impact through efficient digital services
Qualifications
- possess a bachelors degree or higher in computer science information technology engineering or a closely related discipline from an accredited institution
- bring twelve to fifteen years of progressive experience in solution design and architecture with a significant focus on AWS based systems for enterprise scale environments
- demonstrate deep hands on expertise with core AWS services including compute storage databases networking identity and security components used in production systems
- show practical experience with infrastructure as code tools such as cloudformation terraform or similar technologies to automate repeatable and reliable AWS deployments
- exhibit strong understanding of cloud security principles including network segmentation encryption key management and secure configuration practices within AWS
- display proven ability to design resilient disaster recovery ready solutions leveraging multiple availability zones backup strategies and recovery automation in AWS
- apply solid knowledge of modern application architectures including microservices containerization and api driven design as implemented on AWS platforms
- articulate experience working in hybrid work models collaborating effectively through digital tools while maintaining strong communication with distributed teams and stakeholders
- illustrate familiarity with devops practices continuous integration continuous delivery and observability concepts that support stable and maintainable cloud solutions
- demonstrate clear communication and documentation skills to present architecture options risks and recommendations to technical and non technical audiences in concise terms
- show experience in guiding teams through cloud migration initiatives including assessment planning execution and post migration optimization in AWS environments
- express commitment to ongoing learning by staying current with AWS service innovations architectural patterns and industry best practices that enhance organizational value
Acerca de Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) es un creador de soluciones de IA y proveedor de servicios tecnológicos que conecta la inversión en IA con el valor empresarial mediante el desarrollo de soluciones de IA full‑stack para sus clientes. Su profundo conocimiento de la industria, junto con su experiencia en procesos e ingeniería, permite incorporar el contexto único de cada organización en sistemas tecnológicos que amplifican el potencial humano, generan resultados tangibles y mantienen a las empresas a la vanguardia en un entorno en constante cambio. Más información en cognizant.ai o @cognizant.
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