Ownership : Cogniters embrace a culture of ownership. We go beyond our comfort zones to contribute to the greater good, fostering inclusivity and sharing responsibilities for challenges and success.

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About The Role As a Principal Solution Architect at Cognite, you will play a pivotal role in the Technology department within our Global Delivery organization. Our global reach includes offices in Austin & Houston, Oslo, Stavanger, and Tokyo. We are a good mix of Project Managers, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and Solution Architects with some domain expertise in Oil and Gas, Power, and Manufacturing. This specific role is part of the EMEA Delivery organisation.

In this customer-facing position, you will work directly with key customers, field sales, delivery teams, and product development. You will use your seniority and technical competencies to help to lead Norwegian and international industrial customers to increase productivity, profitability, reduce environmental impact and reduce costs. Our customers are large international process and energy industries, with challenges in asset performance and maintenance, production efficiency, and sustainability. Together with the team, you will define solutions and support each integration through to a successful finish.

A typical day as a Cogniter will contain the following tasks & responsibilities

• As a Principal Solutions Architect, you will be an expert in how we implement our Cognite SaaS offerings and applications
• Your primary responsibility will be to work with project teams to map requirements for a quality implementation ensuring that:
• The right data visualization technology is used in the right way (E.g Power BI, Grafana, Plotly Dash)
• The right data transformation technology is used in the right way (E.g Databricks, Azure, GCP, AWS)
• The data is efficiently modeled and contextualized in Cognite Data Fusion (E.g graph and relational)
• Integrations are well thought out and robustImportant quality criteria for the solution are met (E.g. CI/CD, logging, security)
• Operational responsibility and support agreements for the delivered solution are clearly defined
• Design overall technical solution and ensure technical fit within the customer ecosystem and target architecture
• Design integration and data model using Cognite data connectors, SQL, Python/Java and Rest APIs
• Credible advisor to our customers and partners on Cognite Data Fusion
• Collaborate in identifying account risk, and mitigating actions that could involve product, delivery and management
• Collaborating with Sales, Engineering, and Product Management teams to translate customer needs into product offerings
• Mentor and coach Solution architects in the department
• Insight into relevant laws and regulations that influences our products and solutions
• Insight into relevant laws and regulations that influences our products and solutions

We Believe Most Of These Should Match Your Experience

• 10+ years experience as an application/data/solution/enterprise architect
• 3+ years of experience from the heavy asset industry related to downstream, petrochemicals or energy is required
• Experience with operational data and customer business drivers in the heavy asset industry
• Consulting experience that allows you to confidently negotiate requirements with customers and colleagues
• Have experience with enterprise integration, customer relationships or IT integration design
• Data and analytics project experience and able to confidently lead an implementation
• Broad technical experience with data and analytics stacks
• Familiarity with Business Intelligence tools and enterprise analytics stacks (Power BI or similar)
• Experience with operations, including support and change control, as well as experience architecting
• Technical background, willing and able to dive in and contribute code for advanced topics when needed
• Have architectural skills dealing with data modeling and infrastructure solutions, such as classical data warehousing and big data architectures

Don’t meet every single requirement? We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

A snapshot of our many perks and benefits as a Cogniter

• Join an organization of 70 different nationalities 🌐 with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus 🤝
• A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization, follow us on Instagram @ cognitedata 📷 to know more
• Flat structure with direct access to decision-makers, with minimal amount of bureaucracy
• Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries
• Join our HUB 🗣️ to be part of the conversation directly with Cogniters and our partners.

Why choose Cognite? 🏆 🚀 Join us in making a real and lasting impact in one of the most exciting and fastest-growing new software companies in the world. We have repeatedly demonstrated that digital transformation, when anchored on strong DataOps, drives business value and sustainability for clients and allows front-line workers, as well as domain experts, to make better decisions every single day. We were recognized as one of CNBC's top global enterprise technology startups powering digital transformation ! And just recently, Frost & Sullivan named Cognite a Technology Innovation Leader ! 🥇 Most recently Cognite Data Fusion® Achieved Industry First DNV Compliance for Digital Twins 🥇

Apply today! If you're excited about the opportunity to work at Cognite and make a difference in the tech industry, we encourage you to apply today! We welcome candidates of all backgrounds and identities to join our team. Please do not hesitate to contact our Talent Acquisition team with any questions -

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Equal Opportunity Cognite is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment at work and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive the same level of consideration for employment; everyone we hire will receive the same level of consideration for training, compensation, and promotion.

We ask for gender as part of our application because we want to ensure equal assessment in the recruitment process. Your answer will help us reach this commitment! However, the question about gender is optional and your choice not to answer will not affect the assessment of your application in any way.