Principal/senior Solution Architect

**About Cognite**

Embark on a transformative journey with Cognite, a global SaaS forerunner in leveraging AI and data to unravel complex business challenges through our cutting-edge offerings including Cognite Atlas AI, an industrial agent workbench, and the Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) platform. We were awarded the 2022 Technology Innovation Leader for Global Digital Industrial Platforms & Cognite was recognized as 2024 Microsoft Energy and Resources Partner of the Year. In the realm of industrial digital transformation, we stand at the forefront, reshaping the future of Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Pharma and other Manufacturing and Energy sectors. Join us in this venture where AI and data meet ingenuity, and together, we forge the path to a smarter, more connected industrial future.

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Impact: Cogniters strive to make an impact in all that they do. We are result-oriented, always asking ourselves.

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**:

- 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**:

- 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 archi