AIA Chief Architect

Cognizant

Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type: Hybrid
Location: New York, NYWashington, DC
Salary: $220,000–$240,000 / yr
Posted: 37 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

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About Cognizant

Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.

Cognizant currently has 31 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $137,000–$194,000 across 28 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · AIA Chief Architect

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As an Offering Lead for Artificial Intelligence & Analytics at a leading enterprise, you will serve as the chief architect for master data management (MDM) and privacy-centric analytics solutions, defining architectural strategies that ensure trusted insights across hybrid environments. Your responsibilities include designing scalable MDM capabilities to harmonize customer, product, and partner data while incorporating privacy by design principles in logical and physical data models. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to guide solution implementations, mentor senior engineers on MDM concepts, and assess new technologies for alignment with business value and risk appetite. Proficiency in data modeling, integration, metadata management, and data quality is essential, along with expertise in data privacy concepts such as anonymization and consent management. This role requires extensive experience in hybrid data architectures spanning on-premises and cloud environments while maintaining consistent security and governance policies.

Skills

MDM DataPrivacy Analytics DataModeling DataIntegration MetadataManagement DataQuality HybridCloud CI/CD Kubernetes AWS Azure Git SQL Python R PostgreSQL MongoDB Snowflake

What you'll do

Define and maintain enterprise-wide architecture vision for MDM and analytics platforms.
Design scalable MDM capabilities to harmonize data across diverse systems.
Oversee creation of logical and physical data models with privacy by design principles.
Guide solution teams in selecting and integrating MDM tools and privacy controls.
Mentor senior engineers on MDM concepts, privacy-aware modeling, and analytics design.

What we're looking for

Extensive hands-on experience in designing and governing enterprise MDM solutions for analytical and operational use cases.
Strong expertise in data privacy concepts applied to analytics platforms, including anonymization and consent management.
Deep domain understanding of analytics to design architectures enabling various types of insights using governed master data.
Proficiency in data modeling, integration, metadata management, and data quality techniques for robust MDM ecosystems.
Proven ability to collaborate effectively with business stakeholders, privacy functions, and technical teams on compliance and performance.
Experience with hybrid data architectures spanning on-premises and cloud environments while maintaining consistent governance policies.
Excellent communication skills to convey complex architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.

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