Senior Data & Platform Architect for Enterprise Intelligence

Hub; Bærum; On-site; NOK 1,000,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Falkor in Norway seeks a senior Data & Platform Architect to define and evolve architecture for shared data, knowledge and platform services. You will drive patterns for ingestion, processing, storage, APIs and workflows, while guiding decisions across diverse data systems and security considerations.

You will shape ontologies, knowledge graphs and enterprise search, enabling AI-ready knowledge services and trusted data for discovery and decision support.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in software engineering, data platforms or distributed systems with senior leadership responsibilities.
• Design and evolve enterprise-grade, multi-tenant or SaaS platform architectures.
• Strong knowledge of distributed, event-driven and API-based systems.
• Experience with knowledge graphs and ontologies, enterprise search, semantic platforms or workflow orchestration.
• Governance, security, lifecycle management, observability, scalability, reliability and access control.
• Ability to communicate complex architectural choices and influence decisions.

Responsibilities

• Define target architecture and transition roadmap for 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 while balancing scalability, resilience, security and cost.
• Define and govern ontologies, semantic models and knowledge graph architectures.
• Establish standards for taxonomy, metadata, lineage, semantic interoperability and 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, traceability 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 making standards easy 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.

Skills

Senior architecture

Platform leadership

Distributed systems

Event-driven

API-based systems

Knowledge graphs

Ontology modelling

Security governance

Communication

Tools

Graph databases

REST/GraphQL APIs

Job description

Falkor in Norway seeks a senior Data & Platform Architect to define and evolve architecture for shared data, knowledge and platform services. You will drive patterns for ingestion, processing, storage, APIs and workflows, while guiding decisions across diverse data systems and security considerations.

You will shape ontologies, knowledge graphs and enterprise search, enabling AI-ready knowledge services and trusted data for discovery and decision support.