Data & Platform Architect

Kongsberg Digital; Fornebu sør; On-site; NOK 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Kongsberg Digital, a pioneering provider of AI-powered digital twin technology, seeks a senior Data & Platform Architect to define the target architecture for Falkor’s shared data and platform services. You will guide patterns for ingestion, processing, storage, APIs, and governance across diverse data systems.

You will lead architectural decisions, balance scalability with security, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product and engineering teams to drive enterprise-wide platform

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering, data platforms or distributed systems, including senior architecture or platform leadership responsibilities.
• Proven ability to design and evolve enterprise-grade, multi-tenant or SaaS platform architectures.
• Strong knowledge of distributed, event-driven and API-based systems, including data pipelines, messaging, storage and integration patterns.
• Experience with enterprise data architecture and at least one of the following areas: knowledge graphs and ontologies, enterprise search, semantic platforms or workflow orchestration.
• Strong understanding of governance, security, lifecycle management, observability, scalability, reliability and access control.
• Ability to communicate complex architectural choices clearly and influence decisions across product and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the target architecture for Falkor’s shared data and platform services.
• Establish reusable patterns for data ingestion, processing, storage, event streaming, APIs, integration and workflow orchestration.
• Guide architectural decisions across relational, document, time-series, graph, vector and unstructured data systems.
• Drive cloud-native, event-driven and API-first practices, balancing scalability, resilience, security and cost.
• Define and govern enterprise ontologies, semantic models and knowledge graph architectures.
• Shape architectures for enterprise search, semantic discovery and AI-ready knowledge services.
• Establish architecture principles, standards and lifecycle controls for platform services and pipelines.
• Provide hands-on guidance for data platforms, messaging, search, graph technologies and APIs.
• Mentor engineers and architects in data engineering, knowledge engineering and platform practices.

Skills

Software engineering

Data platforms

Distributed systems

Event-driven

API-based systems

Knowledge graphs

Enterprise search

Semantic platforms

Workflow orchestration

Governance and security

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

REST APIs

GraphQL

Graph databases

Job description

Own the target architecture for Falkor’s shared data, knowledge and platform services. You will help ensure that products, integrations and AI-enabled experiences are built on secure, scalable, resilient and governed foundations.

About Falkor

Falkor is a KONGSBERG company helping organisations in heavy-asset industries improve how assets are designed, operated and optimised across their lifecycle. Our industrial intelligence platform connects people, systems, data and workflows, turning complexity into clarity and data into decisions.

The role

As Data & Platform Architect, you will define and evolve the architecture for shared platform capabilities spanning data ingestion, processing, storage, eventing, APIs, metadata, search, knowledge graphs and workflow orchestration. You will set clear architectural direction, establish reusable patterns and work with product and engineering teams to translate business needs into sustainable platform decisions.

This is a senior individual-contributor role with broad influence across product and engineering. It is suited to an architect who can combine strategic direction with practical technical guidance.

What you will do

Platform and data architecture

Define and maintain the target architecture and transition roadmap for shared data, knowledge and platform services.

Establish reusable patterns for data ingestion, processing, storage, event streaming, APIs, integration and workflow orchestration.

Guide architectural decisions across relational, document, time-series, graph, vector and unstructured data systems.

Drive cloud-native, event-driven and API-first practices, while balancing scalability, resilience, security and cost.

Ontology, knowledge and search

Define and govern enterprise ontologies, semantic models and knowledge graph architectures that connect industrial assets, systems, documents, workflows and operational data.

Establish standards for taxonomy, metadata, lineage, semantic interoperability and the lifecycle of knowledge assets.

Shape architectures for enterprise search, semantic discovery, contextual retrieval and AI‑ready knowledge services.

Enable a unified intelligence layer that connects trusted data, knowledge, search and workflows to support discovery, traceability, decision support and AI-powered experiences.

Governance and operational quality

Establish architecture principles, standards and lifecycle controls for platform services, data pipelines and knowledge assets.

Ensure cross-cutting requirements for security, access control, observability, reliability, performance and cost optimisation are designed into the platform.

Promote interoperability across platform modules, applications, AI services and external integrations.

Create pragmatic decision records and reference architectures that make standards easy for teams to adopt.

Technical leadership and collaboration

Partner with Product Managers, Application Architects, Infrastructure Architects and Engineering teams to align platform investments with business priorities.

Provide hands‑on technical guidance for data platforms, messaging, search, graph technologies, workflow engines, APIs and high‑performance data access.

Mentor engineers and architects in data engineering, knowledge engineering and platform architecture practices.

Support cross-product initiatives that depend on shared data infrastructure, semantic models and enterprise knowledge capabilities.

What success looks like

An agreed target architecture and transition roadmap for Falkor’s shared data and platform foundations.

Clear, adopted standards for data, metadata, ontology, search, knowledge graphs, workflow and integration services.

Reduced architectural fragmentation and stronger interoperability across products and platform capabilities.

Governed, scalable foundations that enable trustworthy AI‑assisted and decision‑support experiences.

Improved technical alignment between product, engineering, architecture and infrastructure stakeholders.

What we are looking for

Significant experience in software engineering, data platforms or distributed systems, including senior architecture or platform leadership responsibilities.

Proven ability to design and evolve enterprise‑grade, multi‑tenant or SaaS platform architectures.

Strong knowledge of distributed, event‑driven and API-based systems, including data pipelines, messaging, storage and integration patterns.

Experience with enterprise data architecture and at least one of the following areas: knowledge graphs and ontologies, enterprise search, semantic platforms or workflow orchestration.

Strong understanding of governance, security, lifecycle management, observability, scalability, reliability and access control.

Ability to communicate complex architectural choices clearly and influence decisions across product and engineering teams.

Preferred experience

Enterprise ontology, taxonomy, semantic modelling, metadata management or knowledge graph implementation.

Keyword, semantic, hybrid or vector‑based enterprise search and retrieval architectures.

Retrieval‑Augmented Generation, vector databases, AI agents or knowledge‑retrieval architectures.

Workflow and orchestration platforms, event‑streaming technologies and graph databases.

Digital twins, industrial information models, operational technology data or Industrial AI platforms.

Modern web and service architectures, including TypeScript or Node.js environments.

You do not need expertise in every technology. Relevant experience may include relational and document databases, time-series systems, event streaming and messaging, graph databases, enterprise search, vector stores, workflow engines, REST or GraphQL APIs, and cloud‑native platform services. We value sound architectural judgement and the ability to select appropriate technologies for the problem.

Work on meaningful challenges with real‑world impact in complex industries.

Help shape a platform that connects industrial data, context and workflows at enterprise scale.

Collaborate with specialists across product, engineering, operations and industrial domains.

Influence architectural direction while remaining close to practical engineering decisions.

Grow with a global technology business backed by KONGSBERG’s industrial heritage.

We believe diverse perspectives make us stronger and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels respected, included and able to do their best work.

Om bedriften

At Kongsberg Digital, our mission is to transform the world’s most complex and asset‑intensive industries through world‑leading, AI‑powered digital twin technology.As a pioneer in industrial digitalization, we provide a comprehensive suite of software solutions that empower organizations to manage the full lifecycle of their assets—more efficiently, safely, and sustainably than ever before.The industry is on the cusp of a digital revolution—and we’re leading the charge. From early adoption of AI to building trusted partnerships with some of the world’s largest industrial players, we are redefining how work gets done. With domain expertise baked into every line of code and a high‑calibre team united by a clear mission, we’re not just keeping pace with change—we’re setting the standard.As we expand rapidly across the Middle East and Africa, deepen our end‑to‑end offerings, and push the boundaries of AI, now is the perfect time to join a company that’s growing fast, thinking bold, and delivering real impact.