Senior Data & Platform Architect for AI-Driven Systems

IKT-konsulent; Bærum; On-site; NOK 1,500,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

Falkor, a KONGSBERG company, is seeking a senior Data & Platform Architect to define and evolve the architecture for shared data, knowledge and platform services. You will shape patterns for ingestion, processing, storage, eventing, APIs, metadata and knowledge graphs across complex industrial data ecosystems.

The role combines strategic direction with hands-on guidance, collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure and AI-ready platforms.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering, data platforms or distributed systems with senior leadership responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve target architecture for shared data, knowledge and platform services.
• Establish reusable patterns for data ingestion, processing, storage, event streaming, APIs, integration and workflow orchestration.
• Guide decisions across relational, document, time-series, graph, vector and unstructured data systems.
• Drive cloud-native, event-driven and API-first practices balancing scalability, resilience and cost.
• Govern ontologies, metadata and knowledge graphs to enable AI-ready knowledge services.
• Promote governance, security, observability and cost optimisation across platform modules.

Skills

Distributed systems

Event-driven

API-based architectures

Data platforms

Knowledge graphs

Architecture leadership

Cloud-native

Communication

Tools

TypeScript/Node.js

Graph databases

REST/GraphQL APIs

Job description

Falkor, a KONGSBERG company, is seeking a senior Data & Platform Architect to define and evolve the architecture for shared data, knowledge and platform services. You will shape patterns for ingestion, processing, storage, eventing, APIs, metadata and knowledge graphs across complex industrial data ecosystems.

The role combines strategic direction with hands-on guidance, collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure and AI-ready platforms.