Cloud Architect (AWS) Cognizant’s Digital Engineering practice is seeking a highly qualified Cloud Architect (AWS) with at least 10+ years’ experience leading architectural solutions and building high-performing, scalable, enterprise applications. You will be part of a digital software team that works on high-demand applications. Our engineers have a passion for high-quality, reliable, and maintainable code. You will work side by side with product managers, designers, and clients, making decisions together to quickly deliver valuable working software to clients and their users. Our engineers are agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what we’re doing wrong, so we can fix it, and what we’re doing right, so we can improve on it. Above all, we judge success by the success of our team and the happiness of our customers.

Cognizant Digital Engineering If you’re like us, you’ve got big ideas. At Cognizant, we’re exploring new ideas every day. We help industry leading companies reinvent their business models and innovate products that create new value—by connecting people with things, insights, and experiences. Cognizant digital engineering designs, engineers and delivers digital products and experiences that drive digital-first business models. We offer the most comprehensive digital engineering expertise and client-centric methodology for sustainable innovation.

Location: Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada You must be legally authorized to work in Canada without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Roles/Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand and translate business requirements into technical specifications
• Design and document scalable, secure, and reliable system architectures
• Set, enforce, and update technical standards, architecture patterns, and coding guidelines across projects
• Ensure that all systems meet security, compliance, and quality standards required by the organization
• Communicate with end-users (clients) and interact with technical teams
• Troubleshoot end-users’ issues and determine the root cause of the issue - Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, providing timely and effective solutions to ensure minimal disruption to the end-users
• Learn end-to-end flow for new applications
• Monitor applications, handle outages/maintenance/upgrade activities
• Be pro-active and determine ways to improve application performance (infra and app specific)
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications by conducting thorough continuous monitoring/testing/code & infr0061 walkthrough
• Provide technical guidance to the application team incase of issues determined during troubleshooting
• Utilize AWS services and monitor key performance indicators to determine how the application is running
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies, continuously improving skills and knowledge to enhance project outcomes

Required Qualifications

• AWS Services Knowledge/experience – Prefer knowledge in all AWS resources/services as this is an architect position
• Strong technical skills in systems architecture, security risk management, virtualization, cloud technologies, and IT management
• Graphana experience - ServiceNow experience as an end-user as this will be the ticketing tool - Database knowledge and expertise – SQL, DynamoDB, PostGre, SubProd data refresh, Data fixes
• Good expertise in NodeJS, Java, Angular
• Very good troubleshooting and application support expertise as it requires app monitoring, outage handling, upgrade and maintenance activities including infrastructure level support handling
• Excellent communication skills – requires interaction with multiple teams, end-users, infrastructure point of contacts and pro-active communication with different teams
• Good problem-solving skills