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Cognizant

Cognizant is an award-winning global provider of information technology and business consulting services. Founded in 1994, the company is headquartered in Teane

Chief Architect

Location

New York

Posted

16 days ago

Salary

0

Seniority

Lead

Postgraduate Degree12 yrs expEnglishDistributed SystemsgRPC

Job Description

Chief Architect

Cognizant

• Own the architectural direction for both the evolving new platform and the migration of data and customers off the legacy system. • Exercise architectural authority over SecurityScorecard's agentic product capabilities. • Lead the shift toward AI-assisted and agentic development across the engineering organization. • Set and maintain architectural direction across the platform, customer migration, and agentic product features. • Prototype and validate architectural decisions before committing teams at scale. • Partner with the CTO on technical strategy and engineering roadmap. • Manage and develop the Front-end Architect and AI Architect. • Define and maintain system-wide standards, patterns, and documentation. • Mentor senior and staff engineers and measurably elevate technical quality across the org. • Communicate architectural decisions and trade-offs clearly to executives and customers. • Develop and maintain a 12–24 month technical roadmap spanning platform infrastructure, APIs, and data architecture.

Job Requirements

  • 12–15+ years of software engineering, with significant time in architectural leadership
  • Deep expertise in backend architecture, distributed systems, and data flows at production scale
  • Demonstrated experience scaling platforms already in production
  • Track record owning large-scale data and customer migrations with smooth end-user outcomes
  • Strong experience designing REST APIs at scale; familiarity with gRPC
  • Enough breadth to lead and evaluate a Front-end Architect and AI Architect without owning those domains directly
  • Ability to communicate complex architectural decisions clearly to executives and customers
  • Track record of mentoring senior engineers and shaping engineering culture.

Benefits

  • Health benefits
  • Stock options
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Parental leave
  • Tuition reimbursements

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