Enterprise Business Architect - Digital Business (D/F/M)

Job Description

Cognizant is enabling customer through Digital transformation journey using our proven “digital at scale” framework, which is based upon customer centric innovation, “core modernization” by using technology transformation and being agile to bring time to market. Technology transformation involves moving from legacy landscape to new core as well as building new digital native platform, which will enable enhanced Customer Experience, Scalability, Maintainability and Security with reduced operational and capex cost. In this transformation journey, Enterprise Architects plays very important role in driving the technology change which will enable business achieve their vision. Cognizant has a strong Enterprise / Solution Architect practice.
This is your chance to be part as a technology leader to make this journey best in class.

Enterprise Business Architect (D/F/M)

The Opportunity

You will envision, design and implement enterprise technology architectures to support the growing needs of digitalization at our clients. With Solution Architects, platform engineers and application developers and account teams you will work directly through collaboration and mentoring to shape the capabilities, strategies and requirements for our customers.

Your Key Result Areas:

• Responsible for envisioning, developing and driving the IT roadmap for clients as their enterprise architect providing strategies including hybrid-cloud, standardization and modernization of legacy environments, migration and operational optimization strategies and processes across all aspects of infrastructure
• Lead and successfully deliver cloud and non-cloud projects and services for our customers by working directly with key business stakeholders, executives and project teams
• Create solution architectures according to project requirements, taking into account the strategic target architecture as well as the architecture standards and principles of the banking and financial services clients
• Evaluate cloud architectures as well as application architecture and deploy cloud environments
• Responsible for deploying and overseeing our customers cloud computing strategy (e.g. cloud adoption plans, cloud application design, and designing cloud management and monitoring strategies)
• Consult key customers, domain consultants and senior management on project design and development scope
• Work closely with cloud providers and partners (including AWS, Microsoft, Google, Dell, Hitachi, etc) to drive best in class solutions

Your Qualifications:

• University degree and strong experience in Application, Solution and Enterprise architecture definition and implementation
• Experience in defining and delivering technology transformation roadmap for “core modernization” programs
• Experience in service-oriented architecture as well as integration architectures and design principles
• Experience with current and future looking architecture concepts like APIF First, Microservices, cloud based application architectures, cloud migration techniques
• Strong understanding of cloud computing architecture, technical design and implementations (including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS delivery models)
• Good knowledge in requirements analysis, data and process modeling (use of BPMN 2.0, UML)
• Experience in working with typical cloud components: front- and backend platforms, cloud-based delivery, digital native development on AWS or Cloud foundry
• Experience in the visualization and communication of IT architectures, including at the management level
• Fluent in English and German language

What you can expect

• Organization driven by technology – We have a tremendous technology backbone
• Open, ‘can do’ team spirit
• Environment where you can make your own ideas reality
• Drive your own career
• Market conform benefits

Our strength is built on our ability to work together. Our diverse backgrounds offer different perspectives and new ways of thinking. It encourages lively discussions, inspires thought leadership, and helps us build better solutions for our clients. We looking for someone who drives in this setting and is inspired to craft meaningful solutions through true collaboration.

If you’re comfortable with ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you. Send your CV to Tobias Kessemeier, Head of Executive Recruiting by mail: [email protected]