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Enterprise Chief Architect, AWS Platform - Cognizant
Job in
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, 75215, USA
Listed on 2026-09-07
Listing for:
Polluxa, Inc.
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-07
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
AWS, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
Job Description & How to Apply Below
- Serve as the senior technical authority and primary point of accountability for AWS Infrastructure Delivery and Cloud Transformation initiatives.
- Act as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders, client leadership teams, and Architecture Review Boards (ARBs) on cloud strategy, modernization, security, governance, risk management, and technology investment decisions.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 10-15 Cloud, Network, and Security Architects across onsite and offshore delivery teams while raising architectural maturity and technical excellence across the organization.
- Establish enterprise architecture standards, governance frameworks, reusable design patterns, and AWS best practices that balance security, resilience, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Stay hands-on by leading architecture reviews, validating solution designs, resolving complex technical challenges, and guiding strategic implementation decisions.
- Architect and govern enterprise-scale multi-account, multi-region AWS environments utilizing AWS Organizations and shared services models.
- Design advanced AWS networking architectures leveraging Shared Services VPCs, Transit Gateway, Cloud WAN, VPC Peering, Route 53, Private Link, Security Groups, Network ACLs, and AWS Network Firewall.
- Define secure hybrid-cloud connectivity strategies using AWS Direct Connect, VPN, and BGP routing to support enterprise workloads across cloud and on-premises environments.
- Lead cloud security architecture and governance initiatives utilizing Service Control Policies (SCPs), AWS Security Hub, Guard Duty, AWS Config, Network Firewall, and organizational guardrails.
- Drive threat modeling, compliance alignment, security reviews, audit readiness, and risk management programs across highly regulated and mission-critical environments.
- Lead Infrastructure-as-Code adoption and standardization using Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, and AWS CDK while establishing deployment governance and automation frameworks.
- Drive cloud engineering excellence through Git Lab-based CI/CD automation, platform standards, and infrastructure lifecycle management practices.
- Partner with customer and engineering teams to lead migration, refactoring, modernization, and platform engineering initiatives across ECS, EKS, and Fargate environments.
- Define cloud-native architecture patterns and engineering standards that improve agility, accelerate delivery, and increase operational reliability.
- Architect resilience and business continuity solutions using AWS Resilience Hub, AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS), disaster recovery frameworks, and multi-region availability strategies.
- Provide architectural leadership for scalability, performance, reliability, and operational excellence across ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, and Cloud Front environments.
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