Senior Cloud & Network Solutions Architect (Hybrid)

Cognizant Technology Solutions•Dallas, TX

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

About the role Our practice is seeking a highly qualified Senior Cloud & Network Solutions Architect (Hybrid ) with experience in developing and building impactful, scalable, enterprise applications. Our Developers have a passion for high-quality, reliable, and maintainable code. You will work side by side with product managers, designers, and clients, making decisions together to quickly deliver valuable working software to clients and their users. Our developers are agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what we're doing wrong, so we can fix it, so we can improve on it. Above all, we judge success by the success of our team and the happiness of our customers. We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role's business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 2 to 3 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in Dallas, TX. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs. Location: Dallas , Texas (Onsite) You must be legally authorized to work in the USA without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

Requirements

Telecom Architecture & Standards
OSS/BSS systems (Billing, CRM, Service Assurance, Provisioning, Mediation)
TM Forum standards (eTOM, SID, TAM, Open APIs, ODA)
3GPP & GSMA standards
ORAN SMO specifications
ETSI MANO orchestration frameworks
4G, 5G, Open RAN, transport and core network architectures
VoLTE, VoWiFi, VoNR systems
SDN and NFV (Virtual Network Functions onboarding)
SD-WAN (VeloCloud, Cisco, Silverpeak)
SASE solutions (Zscaler, Palo Alto)
AWS, Azure, GCP
Kubernetes orchestration
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation)
CI/CD pipelines
Cloud security best practices (Zero Trust, least privilege)
API platforms (real-time, high-volume)
Automation for operational efficiency
Monitoring tools (Grafana, Datadog, AWS CloudWatch, Splunk, ELK, Prometheus)

Responsibilities

Architect and deliver large-scale cloud-native and digital transformation solutions for Tier 1 telecom operators.
Design and implement interoperable OSS/BSS solutions leveraging TM Forum standards.
Lead modernization initiatives including CI/CD pipelines and observability improvements.
Own platform architecture ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align IT strategy with business goals.
Drive automation to reduce MTTR, improve SLA compliance, and optimize operational efficiency.
Ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices for telecom and cloud environments.
Mentor and guide teams on architecture principles and emerging technologies.