Network Architect

Role: Network Architect

Primary Responsibilities

• Define and drive the lift-and-shift migration strategy, roadmap, and execution plan
• Review and validate AWS ProServe discovery outputs, and align migration wave planning and dependencies
• Own end-to-end migration delivery governance from a Cognizant perspective, covering scope, timelines, and milestones
• Provide hands-on architectural guidance for AWS target environment (compute, network, security)
• Coordinate closely with client SMEs, AWS ProServe, and Cognizant offshore teams
• Lead cutover planning, execution oversight, and go-live readiness
• Act as the primary escalation point for technical issues during migration and cutover
• Drive status reporting, risk management, and executive stakeholder communication with AWS ProServe, ensuring alignment on progress, risks, and dependencies
• Ensure migration quality, performance validation, and compliance adherence across all waves
• Support troubleshooting and resolution of issues for migrated servers, including post-migration connectivity, and configuration issues

Secondary Responsibilities

• Validate landing zone and environment readiness with AWS and client teams
• Enforce runbooks, SOPs, and migration best practices across offshore teams
• Support testing coordination, issue resolution, and hypercare stabilization
• Drive automation adoption using migration factory / IaC frameworks

Facilitate knowledge transfer and transition to operations / managed services