Cross Portfolio Architect

Today’s world is crime-riddled. Criminals are everywhere, invisible, virtual, and sophisticated. Traditional ways to prevent and investigate crime and terror are no longer enough… 

Technology is changing incredibly fast. The criminals know it, and they are taking advantage. We know it too.  

For nearly 30 years, the incredible minds at Cognyte around the world have worked closely together and put their expertise to work, to keep up with constantly evolving technological and criminal trends and help make the world a safer place with leading investigative analytics software solutions. 

We are defined by our dedication to doing good and this translates to business success, meaningful work friendships, a can-do attitude, and deep curiosity.

We are seeking a highly skilled Cross-Portfolio Architect (CPA) to join our team. The CPA will play a crucial role in aligning and unifying architectural concepts across our portfolio of products and working with Sales to define blueprints for customer solutions. This position requires deep familiarity with diverse SW and HW products and their architecture.

As a Cognyter you will:

Architectural Alignment and Unification:

• Collaborate with Cognyte’s multiple product house architects to align and unify architectural concepts.
• Identifying similar components, modules and capabilities and suggesting ways to streamline the development, deployment and use of these.
• UX Principles and guidelines, including naming conventions 
• Aligned APIs, including creating a common Query Language
• Microservices and detachable/sharable analytical capabilities
• Media enrichment platform, including callback capabilities
• Public cloud, Kubernetes on-prem, etc.
• Microservices and detachable/sharable analytical capabilities
• Media enrichment platform, including callback capabilities
• Public cloud, Kubernetes on-prem, etc.

Outbound Solution Architecture for Sales:

• Work with Sales in a Solution Architect capacity to define blueprints for customer requests.
• Develop packaged solutions that integrate multiple products (Cognyte and third-party).
• Ensure solutions are functional, architecturally solid, and reproducible.

For that mission you’ll need:

• >5 Years in a software architecture role, embedded in cloud environments preferably in a mid-large SW vendor. 
• Deep familiarity with Complex SW solutions and their architecture.
• Proven experience in architectural alignment and unification.
• Strong understanding of UX principles, APIs, microservices, media enrichment platforms, single sign-on, and cloud technologies.
• Excellent negotiation, patience, and practicality skills.
• Ability to work closely with various architects and VPs of R&D.
• Experience in developing solutions for customer wins.

Preferred Skills:

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to move companies from a "one of its kind" solution to a "first of its kind" solution.
• Experience in creating reproducible and scalable solutions.