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This strategic architecture role is responsible for designing, governing, and evolving enterprise infrastructure solutions across cloud, virtualization, and on-premises environments.\nThe successful candidate will lead end-to-end infrastructure solution architecture initiatives, partnering with business stakeholders, application architects, cloud engineering teams, infrastructure delivery teams, and operations teams to deliver secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective technology solutions.\nThis role requires deep expertise in infrastructure architecture, VMware virtualization, Windows platforms, capacity planning, high availability, disaster recovery, storage, backup solutions, and enterprise infrastructure transformation programs. The architect will be responsible for translating business requirements into technical architectures while ensuring alignment with organizational technology standards, service objectives, and long-term strategic roadmaps.\nSalary and Other Compensation:\nThe annual base salary for this position is between $100,000 to $115,000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.\nThis position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.\nIn this role, you will\n\nLead end-to-end infrastructure solution architecture initiatives, including requirements analysis, solution design, technology evaluation, and implementation guidance for cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.\n\nDesign scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure solutions utilizing VMware virtualization, Windows platforms, compute, storage, networking, backup, and disaster 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transformation goals.\n\nEvaluate solution feasibility, complexity, risks, and design trade-offs while providing expert recommendations that balance scalability, performance, security, resiliency, and cost considerations.\n\nProvide architectural leadership throughout project lifecycles, ensuring successful delivery, integration, and operational readiness while maintaining adherence to enterprise standards and design intent.\n\nCommunicate architecture strategies, technical concepts, and solution recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences, influencing stakeholders and driving consensus across business and technology teams.\n\nWhat you’ll need to succeed (required skills)\n\n8+ years of experience in Infrastructure Solution Architecture, including end-to-end solution design, enterprise architecture development, and delivery of large-scale infrastructure transformation initiatives.\n\nExpert-level experience with VMware, private cloud, and virtualization technologies, including the design, integration, and management of complex on-premises and hybrid infrastructure environments.\n\nStrong expertise in infrastructure sizing, capacity planning, performance optimization, and workload assessment for greenfield deployments, migrations, and enterprise-scale environments.\n\nHands-on experience designing High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), storage, backup, and business continuity solutions that ensure resiliency, scalability, and operational stability.\n\nProven ability to translate business and technical requirements into architecture deliverables, including High-Level Designs (HLDs), Low-Level Designs (LLDs), infrastructure roadmaps, and Bills of Materials (BOMs).\n\nDeep understanding of architecture governance, design reviews, technology evaluation, and solution trade-off analysis, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, security requirements, and business objectives.\n\nDemonstrated leadership in cross-functional stakeholder 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