Principal Architect

Job summary

As a Chief Architect (Associate Director) with 12 to 14 years of experience you will lead the design and implementation of complex technical solutions. You will work in a hybrid model ensuring that our systems are robust scalable and aligned with business goals. Your expertise will drive innovation and efficiency impacting both the company and society positively.

Responsibilities

Work closely with clients intermediaries and internal Cognizant authorities to build high impact solutions

Define solution vision and direction building on commonalities and benefits across lines of business and technologies

Good track record of winning large deals

Anchor solution and strategy discussions with CxOs and Business Leaders

Lead a multi-functional team of solution architects across their respective domains.

Envision a transformation roadmap that aligns with the strategic and tactical direction of the partner client

Drive the translation of complex business initiatives into creative and innovate business technology solutions and ensure consistency across traditional solution boundaries

Work with Business Stakeholders and Project Managers to understand inefficiencies in clients existing business processes and applications and recommend solutions

Coordination with all stakeholders sales solutions operations change management pricing transition facilities et al to ensure timely and high quality proposal and response submission to clients

Lead and contribute towards the design development and implementation of winning technical estimation and solutions for customers

Creation and maintain effective knowledge management system to support all the solutioning phase of the deal lifecycle

Design technology solution that aligns with the larger engagement model across towers and jointly build engagement level transformation themes

Certifications Required

TOGAF Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or equivalent.