Principal Enterprise Architect
 Cognizant North America | |
life insurance, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, 401(k)
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 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 5001 Statesman Drive (Show on map) | |
 Jun 10, 2025 | |
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Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, redefining clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our outstanding industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com. Cognizant Technology Solutions is looking for a Principal Enterprise Architect to join the team of IT professionals in a role. If you meet our background requirements and skills and are in search of an opportunity with these skills and expertise, here is the opportunity for you! Responsibilities: Developing and coordinating the long-term technology strategy to align with the company's business goals and market trends Technology Leadership: Leading the adoption of new technologies and ensuring the integration of innovative solutions across the organization. Drive the agenda for Innovation Center with Comms customers System Architecture: Designing and maintaining the overall system architecture, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security. Teamwork Across Functions: Working closely with various groups like IT, network operations, and business units to ensure cohesive and efficient operations. Regulatory Alignment: Ensuring that all systems and processes align with industry regulations and standards. Performance Optimization: Continuously supervising and optimizing the performance of the network and IT infrastructure. Risk Management: Identifying potential risks and developing mitigation strategies to ensure business continuity. Vendor Management: Maintaining relationships with technology vendors and service providers to ensure the best solutions and services are procured. Innovation and R&D: Leading research and development efforts to explore new technologies and solutions that can provide a driven edge. Develop and publish agent catalog across telecom domain and other verticals Customer Focus: Ensuring that all technology initiatives and solutions are crafted to improve the customer experience. Required Qualifications Strong Expertise in hands on experience in leading large Technical and sophisticated transformation programs for architecture strategy, design and deployment Good experience as Principal enterprise architect across clients in the telecom industry Authority in telecom end to end business processes (OSS/ITSM with telco focus). Strong solution architecture experience understanding end to end capabilities used in the telco industry, with a validated ability to decompose broad based processes into functional components. Strong implementation experience with SRE, ITSM Experience with observability, monitoring, performance management, SLA management tools (Nagios, Prometheus, New Relic, Galileo) GenAI related certifications / exposure, ITIL certification Deep exposure in Agentic, gen AI, LLM, SLM, infrastructure and data pipelines Exposure to TMF specifications and ODA is a plus Salary and Other Compensation: The annual salary for the position is between $104,850- $166,500 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate. This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans. Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
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