Enterprise Architect - Amsterdam, Nederland - Cognizant

Beschrijving

What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth on a global scale in an international and innovative environment This is creating a lot of opportunities for people like you — ambitious and pro-active with an entrepreneurial spirit who creates and seizes opportunities.

At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, innovative, and successful. And this is your chance to be part of that story. We are currently looking for Enterprise Architect to join our team.

Your Team:
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.

Your 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.
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 will bring to the team:

• 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

What we offer:

• A competitive salary based on your qualities and experience.

• Access to Udemy, Cognizant Academy digital libraries for your continuous learning.

• NS business card to cover your commute expenses.

• 25 days of paid holiday per year.

• A laptop and a smartphone.

• A pension scheme.

• Organization driven by technology – we have a tremendous technology backbone.

• Open, 'can do' team spirit and international environment that encourages making your ideas reality

• 32-40 hour working week

Diversity and Inclusion at Cognizant:
At Cognizant, we believe diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our ability to execute successfully and consistently over the long term. We recognize that our people are our most important asset. We strive to create an environment where all associates feel comfortable to be themselves, feel accepted and can therefore thrive both personally and professionally. We continue to drive D&I throughout our organization to unlock the insights, imagination and innovation of our associates, as well as reflect the diversity of our clients and communities. We are a Dutch and European Top Employer and continually drive employment recognition and engagement through employee friendly policies and affinity groups such as "Women Empowered", "Embrace LGBTQ+" and "Race Equality Network". For more information, see

Recruitment process:
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Recruiter Contact Details
Name: Shilpa Kapur
Email address:

Employee Status : Full Time Employee

Shift : Day Job

Job Posting : Apr