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# Architect - Technology

- **Company:** cognizant
- **Location:** UK
- **Salary:** £44,342.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Information Technology Consulting, Digital Asset Management, Documentum, Knowledge Management, Software Engineering, Beta Testing
- **Published:** October 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5210481802

## About the Role

Science / Engineering graduate

## Description

* • Participate in external forums (seminars paper presentation etc) to showcase Cognizant capabilities and insights under guidance of senior team members.
 * • Understand client's existing business and explore new avenues to save cost and bring process efficiency.
 * • Identify business opportunities to create reusable components/accelerators and reuse existing components and best practices.
 * • Support the patent filing process for the IP assets created (applicable to some CoEs).

Technology Consulting

 * • In collaboration with the Sr Architect analyze application/ technology landscape process tools and arrive at the solution options best fit for the client.
 * • Analyze Cost Vs Benefits of solution options.
 * Support Sr Architect to create a technology/ architecture roadmap for the client.

Alliance Management

 * • Identify alliance partners based on the understanding of service offerings and client requirements.
 * • In collaboration with Sr Architect create a compelling business case around the offerings.
 * • Conduct beta testing of the offerings.

Knowledge Management & Capability Development

 * ' • Publish and Maintain a repository of solutions best practices and standards and other knowledge articles.
 * • Conduct and facilitate knowledge sharing and learning sessions across the team.
 * • Gain industry standard certifications on technology and architecture consulting.
 * • Support Technical skill building (including hiring and training) for the team based on inputs from project manager.
 * • Mentor new members in the team in technical areas.
 * Gain and cultivate domain expertise to provide best and optimized solution to customer.

People Management

 * • Set goals & Manage performance of reporting team members.
 * • Provide career guidance to team members.

Asset Development And Governance

 * ' • Understand the plan for asset development.
 * • Design assets as per plan (if required).
 * • Conduct pilot run/review to validate the assets as feasible.
 * • Track utilization of reusable assets / architecture components across the organization.

Sales Support And Project Estimation

 * ' • Support for developing RFPs and collaterals for proposals from a technical solution/ estimation/ risks perspective.
 * • Conduct demo's and arrange for the demos based on client profiles if required.
 * • Anchor proposal development with cross linkages across multiple competency units to arrive at a coherent solution proposal with focus on presenting unique value propositions and clear differentiators.

Requirement Gathering And Analysis

 * ' • Work with customer and other teams to collect analyze and understand the requirements including NFRs.
 * • Analyze gaps/ trade offs based on current system context/ industry practices and clarify the requirements by working with the customer.

Solution Definition & Design

 * • Develop / Enhance the solution architecture (Application / technical / Infrastructure as applicable) meeting functional / non functional requirements and aligned to industry best practices.
 * • Solution Design (including Data modeling Application design Infrastructure design Team structure) & Capacity sizing to meet the requirements & SLAs of target state and in transition as applicable.
 * • Identify Proof Of Concept testing (POC) needs and conduct POCs as applicable.
 * • Identify need for developing accelerators and Develop as applicable specific to the engagement.
 * • Identify key technical metrics to measure the SLA / requirements compliance.
 * • Define adopt and create required documentation on standards and guidelines.

Stakeholder Management

 * ' • Monitor the concerns of internal stakeholders follow through on commitments and achieve timely resolution of issues.
 * • Conduct initiatives to meet client expectations.
 * • Work to expand professional network in the client organization.

Business And Technical Research

 * • Analyze market trends / client requirements/ secondary research.
 * • Identify new ideas and provide inputs to senior stakeholders for developing blueprint / PoC.

Brand Building

 * ' • 'Organize/ Participate in events like webinars boot camps seminar conference client conference to showcase the capability.
 * • Identify opportunities to cross solutionize across project(s) within or outside the BU.

Must Have Skills

 * Documentum