Sr. Cloud Architect
Cognizant Digital Practice helps clients reinvent products, experiences, and business models to build new value, differentiation, and drive revenue in the digital economy. We take an Experience centered approach which uses human insights to take ideas from vision to outcome and building end to end experience led solutions that enables brands to transform their customer and employee experiences using design, marketing, and commerce capabilities.
Location: Dallas Forth Worth, Texas
*Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in US*
Roles & Responsibilities:
Oversees and contributes to the technical approach of application design
Collaborate with developers to guide the architecture approach for the Functional and Technical Design
Creates required architecture and design documents to support technical application architecture, vision, strategy, standards, policies, and presentations
Contribute technical input and responses in meetings and discussions in order to support the best application architecture
Escalates technical issues when needed to keep project on track and minimize risk
Use the Agile process working with Business, Automation and Development teams to analyze Business Capabilities/Requirements and translate into Features/User Stories
Advocate and guide development teams to Shift-Left collaboration and automated testing.
Consistently demonstrates a positive, professional, leadership attitude and frame of mind when working with and communicating with others
Qualifications:
10 years of development experience Java
8 years architectural and design experience
5 years building cloud native application targeting Azure Cloud
Preferred Qualifications
Airline industry experience
Hands-on experience in systems development in Azure Cloud building Cloud Native Applications
Proficient in Agile, DevOps and Cloud Native software delivery methodologies
Proficient building application architecture and design using Unified Modeling Language
Knowledge of Azure Cloud technologies, Microservices Architecture and Event Driven Architecture
Knowledge of networking fundamentals and understand GTM, WAF and other network related concepts
Experience supporting and directing technical architecture for supported business domains
Ability to work across multiple functional teams in the creation of business solutions
Knowledge of systems integration practices and understanding of Service Oriented Architecture principles and practices
Ability to simultaneously manage a large Architect workload involving multiple projects, day-to-day tasks, meetings and ad-hoc technical requests
Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
- Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
- 401(k) plan and contributions
- Long-term/Short-term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits 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.
Why Choose Cognizant?
It takes a lot to succeed in today’s fast-paced market, and Cognizant Technology Solutions has become a leader in the industry. We love big ideas and even bigger dreams. We stand out because we put human experiences at the core.
Our associates enjoy robust benefits and training opportunities from our industry recognized, award winning Academy team. You will have access to hundreds of technical trainings to keep your skills fresh and have opportunities to obtain certifications on the latest technologies.
If you’re comfortable with ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you!
