About Cognizant
Cognizant is one of the world’s leading professional services companies, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, ranked in the Fortune 500 and consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world.
The Technology Modernization Consulting practice at Cognizant helps clients to reimagine, redefine, and transform their businesses through technology. We bring unparalleled levels of insight, innovation, and delivery velocity to help our clients become digital leaders and enable them to create disruption within their industry. We do this by employing the best people in the industry, working with a single-minded focus and a pragmatic, hands-on approach to delivering technology strategy and solutions.
We are currently seeking Enterprise Architects at all levels to join our team. Candidates should have previous experience of working as an Enterprise Architect in some leadership capacity for, or at large organizations, on digital transformation initiatives. Candidates will ideally have experience of consulting and working with senior stakeholders.
About the role
This position is within the Benelux team, which focusses on providing advice and guidance to customers on IT Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, and Solution Architecture.
As an Enterprise Architect, you will deliver value and excellence to our customers through key project engagements, and you will also support the growth of the Technology Modernization Consulting practice.
Skills and experience:
- Previous experience in an Enterprise Architect or Solution Architect role is essential
- Experience of working across multiple industry sectors (preferable)
- Knowledge of TOGAF and/or other enterprise architecture frameworks is essential
- Experience in Architecture Governance is essential
- Knowledge or expertise across architecture domains such as business, applications, information, infrastructure, integration, and security
- Knowledge or expertise across technology domains such as cloud, big data, analytics, artificial intelligence, IoT, enterprise automation, API, and architecture approaches like multi-tier, micro-services, event-based, etc.
- Knowledge in the use of cloud technologies, cloud strategies and in the design of solutions for the cloud (desirable)
- Knowledge of integration technologies and services, with the ability to design integration architectures (desirable)
- Consulting expertise gained with a management consultancy or systems integrator (preferred) and experience working on digital transformations is highly desirable
- Proven capability in providing technology leadership, delivering high quality, creative and insightful technology advice; you will ensure project success through timely and accurate production of agreed deliverables
- 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
- Experience in safety, compliance, or permits is a strong
- Able to explain the pro’s and con’s of a proposed solution to business stakeholders
- Working experience with multiple sourcing and development methods
- Keen on taking on integration challenges
- Experience in working with modern architectural concepts
- Fluent in Archimate 3
- Experience with cloud architecture and cloud environments (Azure)
- Knowledge of and experience with TOGAF
- Experience with Bizzdesign Enterprise Studio & working with software development teams
- Fluent in Dutch and English
Business development:
- Lead and collaborate with teams across our business in the development and presentation of proposals to clients
- Lead in the development of collateral to support ‘go to market’ propositions and service offerings
- Use your personal contacts and networking skills to help grow our consulting pipeline
- Work with account teams to support opportunity identification, qualification, and sales
- Develop a cross practice understanding of service offerings to ensure effective consultative selling
Practice development:
- Contribute to the development of a knowledge management led approach ensuring the development of reusable collateral from assignments
- Support recruitment activities by taking part in candidate screening and interview sessions
- Team building: promote empowerment of the team, ensure that each team member is fully engaged in their projects and our team, making meaningful contributions, and encourage a sustainable pace with high levels of quality for the team
- Support wider consulting initiatives outside of the immediate practice or capability group
- Contribute to internal and external mindshare development through white papers, Points of View, and case studies
What you can expect
By joining Cognizant Technology Modernization Consulting, you will be responsible for establishing trusted advisor relationships with the leaders of Fortune 500 companies. You will spend time on-site with clients to support business development for new work and delivering consulting projects. Developing points of view and thought leadership will be part of your go-to-market responsibilities.
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