Principal Architect - DevOps
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 10, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 10, 2026. Cognizant scores A on the Alion truth index.
Job Summary
15+ years of recent experience as an architect leading digital transformation or modernization projects lifecycle from requirements elicitation to solution acceptance
Experience leading junior architects and technology leads towards executing domain based solutions
Strong analytical and problem solving skills with an ability to work across platforms and organization units and understand the problem space top down and bottomup
Strong communication interpersonal and client facing skill
Responsibilities
AD Level
General Enterprise Architect Requirements (Mandatory)
15+ years of recent experience as an architect leading digital transformation or modernization projects lifecycle from requirements elicitation to solution acceptance
Experience leading junior architects and technology leads towards executing domain based solutions
Strong analytical and problem solving skills with an ability to work across platforms and organization units and understand the problem space top down and bottom up
Strong communication interpersonal and client facing skills
Adept at mentoring and guiding development teams.
Prepare POV / POC and present to customer
Mandatory Domain & Technology Skills
Design development architecture expertise in AWS GCP Spring boot Microservices domain driven design microservices patterns and Java Design Pattern event driven architecture
Hands on experience in application modernization (legacy monolith to cloud native)
Good programming skills (for AD level positions quick adaptability and learnability across languages)
Capable of conducting thorough code reviews and providing constructive feedback
GenAI Skills Must Have
Experience on working Agentic solutions with Langchain Langgraph ADK and RAG with Vector DB
Experience to lead Gen AI based program designing workflow security token usage pricing infra requirements.
Experience to estimate Gen AI based program & agentic development considering all factors
Experience with OpenAI and Gemini LLM
Experience with Copilot Claude and use in the transformation programs for migrations from legacy to modern technologies.
Exposure to build Gen AI based platform related to Comms will have a value