Senior Data & Platform Architect for Enterprise AI

Falkor; Bærum; Hybrid; NOK 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Falkor in Norway seeks a senior Data & Platform Architect to shape the target architecture for shared data, knowledge and platform services. You will steer patterns for ingestion, processing, storage, eventing, APIs, metadata, search and knowledge graphs while ensuring security and cost efficiency.

You will collaborate with product and engineering to translate business needs into sustainable platform decisions, mentoring engineers and aligning investments with strategic priorities.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering, data platforms or distributed systems with senior architecture or platform leadership.
• 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 knowledge graphs/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, 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.
• Define and govern enterprise ontologies, semantic models and knowledge graph architectures.
• 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 connecting trusted data, knowledge, search and workflows to support discovery and AI-powered experiences.
• Establish architecture principles, standards and lifecycle controls for platform services, data pipelines and knowledge assets.
• Ensure cross-cutting requirements for security, observability, reliability 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.
• 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.

Job description

Falkor in Norway seeks a senior Data & Platform Architect to shape the target architecture for shared data, knowledge and platform services. You will steer patterns for ingestion, processing, storage, eventing, APIs, metadata, search and knowledge graphs while ensuring security and cost efficiency.

You will collaborate with product and engineering to translate business needs into sustainable platform decisions, mentoring engineers and aligning investments with strategic priorities.