Lead AWS Cloud Architect, Consulting

Lead AWS Cloud Architect, Consulting

Cognizant Consulting

At Cognizant, our consultants orchestrate the capabilities to truly change the game across strategy, design, technology and industry/functional knowledge to deliver insight at speed and solutions at scale. Our consulting services elevate the unique abilities and business aspirations of customers and employees and build relationships based on trust and value.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Shaping, leading and delivering value through technology advisory consultancy and through guiding transformational delivery engagements.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship building skills at senior levels that will enable consensus building and shaping technology direction.
• Leading in the development and presentation of client proposals collaborating with teams across our business.
• Leading in the development of collateral to support Technology Consulting ‘go to market’ propositions and service offerings.
• Farming of accounts - working with account teams to support opportunity identification, qualification and sales.
• Contribute to the development of practice members’ skills to ensure a consistency of service delivery and expertise. Active coaching and mentoring of junior members of the team.
• Develop, implement and continually refine a coherent approach and appropriate frameworks to support business transformation proposals, that includes presentations, specimen RFI/RFP content, methodologies, toolkits and deliverables.
• The Cloud Architect will have a strong foundation in the design of secure cloud, storage, networking and security architectures implemented on AWS. They will have proven experience leading cloud adoption, cloud migration, cloud readiness, cloud maturity and landing zone design and deployment projects.
• They will have experience of creating high-level designs (HLDs) from solution designs and non-functional requirements, following standards and principles to guide the design. They will own the design and be able to defend design choices at architecture assurance forums (e.g., TDA).

Core skills and experience:

• AWS Certified Solution Architect.
• Architecture design (HLD, SAD).
• Cloud landing zone (AWS).
• Cloud-native (Microservice, EDA).
• Directory services (Managed AD).
• Security Web Gateway (WAF, API Gateway, Nginx).
• Identity & Access Management (IAM, WSO2).
• Key management (KMS, Entrust).
• Database deployment (RDS, PostgreSQL).
• Network security (GardDuty, Shield).
• Containers (EKS).
• Storage (S3).
• Agile methods (SCRUM).
• Sparx EA (UML).

Desirable skills and experience:

• CISSP, CISM or SABSA Certified.
• AWS Certified Security Specialty.
• Familiarity with TOGAF.
• The Cloud Architect must be comfortable drafting documents, preparing presentations, researching IT architecture and technology topics, and providing oversight to development teams. They must have the ability to abstract complex themes, problem solve, distil key discussion points, organise work, deliver to tight deadlines, and communicate with non-technical senior stakeholders.

Security Clearance:

Please note that candidates must hold or be able to gain UK SC level Security Clearance or higher. Therefore we can only accept applications from British passport holders who meet this criteria.