About Cognizant Consulting
Cognizant Consulting is more than Cognizant’s consulting practice—we’re a global community of 6,000+ experts dedicated to helping clients reimagine their business. Blending our deep industry and technology advisory capability, we create innovative business solutions for Fortune 500 clients. And now, we’re looking for our next colleague who’ll join us in shaping the future of business. Could it be you?
About the Role
As a Consulting Principal, Enterprise Architecture, you will make an impact by providing technology leadership and delivering high quality, creative, and insightful technology advice. You will be a valued member of the team and work collaboratively with managers, primary teams, and other stakeholders and clients.
In this role, you will:
- Shape, lead, and deliver value through technology advisory consultancy and guide transformational delivery engagements.
- Build strong stakeholder relationships at senior levels to enable consensus and shape technology direction.
- Lead the development and presentation of client proposals, collaborating with teams across the business.
- Develop collateral to support Technology Consulting ‘go to market’ propositions and service offerings.
- Support account teams in opportunity identification, qualification, and sales.
- Contribute to the development of practice members’ skills, including active coaching and mentoring of junior team members.
- Develop, implement, and refine frameworks to support business transformation proposals, including presentations, RFI/RFP content, methodologies, toolkits, and deliverables.
Work Model
We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring a mix of remote and onsite working in London. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.
What You Must Have to Be Considered
- At least 5+ years’ experience leading architecture engagements and 3+ years’ experience as a Technical Design Authority.
- IT consulting experience or experience working for a system integrator in the public sector.
- Security Check (SC) clearance required; candidates must have been resident in the UK for 5 years. Successfully obtaining clearance is a condition of employment.
- Experience in organizing and running CTO Office TDA functions (e.g., TDA charter, operating model).
- Broad knowledge of technical architectures (cloud, distributed, monolithic).
- Good coverage of application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security domains.
- Demonstrable understanding of architecture governance (including waivers/deviations).
- Strong understanding of architecture design patterns (including integration anti-patterns).
- Strong understanding of modeling notation (e.g., ArchiMate, UML, BPMN).
- Management and recording of key design decisions (architecture repository).
- Strong communication skills, gravitas, and ability to exert influence in a complex stakeholder, multi-supplier, heterogeneous IT environment.
These Will Help You Succeed
- Familiarity with TOGAF (including ADM).
- Familiarity with Sparx EA.
- Familiarity with Agile methods (e.g., SCRUM, SAFe).
- Knowledge of analysis and design methods (e.g., Structured, OOAD).
- Ability to schedule and organize meetings, conduct technical architecture reviews, educate and advise development teams, accurately record design decisions, and research IT architecture and technology topics.
- Ability to manage people, navigate conflict, abstract complex themes, problem solve, distil key discussion points, organize work, and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
We're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. Think about your transferable experiences and unique skills that make you stand out as someone who can bring new and exciting things to this role.
Sobre a Cognizant
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) é uma construtora de IA e fornecedora de serviços de tecnologia, criando a ponte entre o investimento em IA e o valor para as empresas por meio do desenvolvimento de soluções de IA completas para nossos clientes. Nossa profunda experiência em setores, processos e engenharia nos permite incorporar o contexto único de cada organização em sistemas tecnológicos que potencializam a capacidade humana, geram resultados tangíveis e mantêm empresas globais à frente em um mundo em rápida transformação. Saiba mais em cognizant.ai ou @cognizant.
A Cognizant é uma empregadora que investe em equidade. Sua candidatura não será pautada em raça, cor, gênero, sexualidade, credo, origem, deficiência, gravidez ou qualquer outra característica protegida pelas leis brasileiras.
Informações adicionais de emprego
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Embora nosso sistema permita a candidatura em todos os idiomas, o(s) idioma(s) e o(s) nível(is) de proficiência exigidos para o trabalho variam. No entanto, é necessário um nível básico de inglês para fins de comunicação em toda a empresa.
A Cognizant é uma empregadora que investe em equidade. Sua candidatura não será pautada em raça, cor, gênero, sexualidade, credo, origem, deficiência, gravidez ou qualquer outra característica protegida pelas leis brasileiras.
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