Senior Solution Architect

Cognite • Houston, TX

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About The Position

The Senior Solutions Architect is part of Cognite’s Global Value Delivery team, which leads software implementation, deployment, and adoption for clients. The role designs complex, end-to-end solutions that combine Cognite’s products with customer portfolios for new and existing clients. As a technical subject matter expert across the professional and managed services catalog, the architect works with sales and delivery teams, data scientists, and customers from discovery through implementation to map technical requirements and design robust solutions. The position blends consulting, architecture, and product development in a cross-functional team.

The architect works with project teams to map requirements and ensure quality implementations. This includes selecting and applying suitable data visualization and transformation technologies, efficiently modeling and contextualizing data in Cognite Data Fusion, designing robust integrations, and meeting solution quality criteria such as CI/CD, logging, and security. The role also defines operational responsibilities and support agreements for delivered solutions, advises customers and partners on Cognite Data Fusion, and provides feedback to product managers and technical leads to improve Cognite’s SaaS offering.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience as an application, data, solution, or enterprise architect.
• At least 2 years of experience in a heavy asset industry, such as Oil & Gas, manufacturing, or pharmaceuticals.
• Experience with operational data and customer business drivers in the heavy asset industry.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Consulting experience enabling confident negotiation of requirements with customers and colleagues.
• Experience with enterprise integration, customer relationships, or IT integration design.
• Data and analytics project experience and ability to confidently lead an implementation.
• Broad technical experience with data and analytics stacks.
• Familiarity with business intelligence tools and enterprise analytics stacks, such as Power BI or similar.
• Familiarity with SQL and big data tooling, such as the Apache Spark ecosystem.
• Experience with a public cloud, preferably AWS, GCP, or Azure, including familiarity with network security concepts, identity providers, and application hosting.
• Experience with operations, including support and change control, and with architecting centralized monitoring, logging, and reporting.
• DevOps mindset and experience with Git, CI/CD, and deployment environments.
• Technical background and willingness and ability to contribute code for advanced topics when needed.
• Architectural skills in data modeling and infrastructure solutions, such as classical data warehousing and big data architectures.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure is preferred; the posting identifies these as preferred public cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design overall technical solutions and ensure technical fit within the customer ecosystem and target architecture.
• Work with project teams to map requirements and guide quality implementations.
• Select and apply appropriate data visualization technologies, such as Power BI, Grafana, or Plotly Dash.
• Select and apply appropriate data transformation technologies, such as Databricks and cloud platforms.
• Ensure data is efficiently modeled and contextualized in Cognite Data Fusion, including graph and relational models.
• Design robust integrations and data models using Cognite data connectors, SQL, Python or Java, and REST APIs.
• Ensure solution quality criteria such as CI/CD, logging, and security are met.
• Clearly define operational responsibilities and support agreements for delivered solutions.
• Advise customers and partners on Cognite Data Fusion.
• Work with sales, delivery teams, data scientists, and customers from discovery through implementation.
• Identify opportunities for new products and features and collaborate with product managers and tech leads to improve Cognite’s SaaS offering.
• Lead data and analytics implementations and contribute code for advanced topics when needed.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• 401(k) with employer matching
• Competitive health, dental, vision, and disability coverage for employees and dependents
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid parental leave program
• Employee referral program
• Paid mobile phone and WiFi

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior