Solution Architect

Cognite - AI for Industry; Oslo fylke; On-site; NOK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

DEI-focused culture

Private health services Cognite Care

Subsidized lunch at canteen

On-site gym access

Cognite HUB and community events

Job summary

Cognite is seeking a Solutions Architect to lead end-to-end solution design that merges Cognite SaaS offerings with a customer’s portfolio. You will collaborate with sales, delivery, data scientists, and customers to map technical requirements and architect robust solutions across data visualization, transformation, and integration technologies.

The role emphasizes consulting, architecture, and product development within cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience as an application/data engineer/solution/enterprise architect or ML engineer
• Degree in engineering, computer science, physics, or related quantitative field, or equivalent demonstrated experience
• Hands-on in Python as well as strong software development practices

Responsibilities

• Design complex end-to-end solutions combining Cognite SaaS with the customer portfolio
• Map requirements with project teams to ensure quality implementation
• Select the right data visualization and transformation technologies for each use case
• Model data effectively in Cognite Data Fusion and ensure contextualization
• Plan robust integrations with CI/CD, logging and security in mind
• Provide operational responsibility and define support agreements for delivered solutions
• Design overall technical solutions and ensure fit within customer ecosystems
• Create data models using Cognite data connectors, SQL, Python/Java and REST APIs
• Act as a credible advisor to customers and partners on Cognite Data Fusion

Skills

Python

Cloud platforms

DevOps mindset

CI/CD

Data modeling

Architectural skills

Stakeholder management

Education

Engineering degree

Computer science/quantitative field

Tools

Databricks

Azure

AWS

GCP

SQL

REST APIs

Job description

What Cognite is: Relentless to achieve

Cognite operates at the forefront of industrial digitalization, building AI, and data solutions that solve the world’s hardest, highest-impact problems. With unmatched industrial heritage and a comprehensive suite of AI capabilities, including low-code AI agents, Cognite accelerates the digital transformation to drive operational improvements.

We thrive in challenges. We challenge assumptions. We execute with speed and ownership. If you view obstacles as signals to step forward - not backwards - you’ll feel right at home here.

Our Moonshot is bold: Unlock $100B in customer value by 2035, and redefine how global industry works. Join us in this venture where AI and data meet ingenuity, and together, we will forge the path to a smarter, more connected industrial future.

How you’ll demonstrate Ownership

The Solutions Architect is responsible for the design of complex end to end solutions, merging our flagship products with the customer’s portfolio, for both new and existing clients. You are a technical subject matter expert in all offerings across the professional and managed services catalog. From discovery through implementation, you will work closely with the sales team and the delivery teams, as well as our data scientists and customers to map out technical requirements and architect robust and familiar solutions. Through your work with our strategic customers, you will identify opportunities for new products and features, and work with our product managers and tech leads to continuously improve Cognite’s SaaS offering.

This role is a mix of consulting, architecture, and product development in a welcoming cross-functional team. Above all else, we strive to foster a supportive team environment where everyone is excited to share ideas, ask for help, and learn from each other.

The Impact you bring to Cognite

• As a Solutions Architect, you will be an expert in how we implement our Cognite SaaS offerings and applications.
• Your primary responsibility will be to work with project teams to map requirements for a quality implementation ensuring that:
• The right data visualization technology is used in the right way (E.g Power BI, Grafana, Plotly Dash)
• The right data transformation technology is used in the right way (E.g Databricks, Azure, GCP, AWS)
• The data is efficiently modeled and contextualized in Cognite Data Fusion (E.g graph and relational)
• Integrations are well thought out and robustImportant quality criteria for the solution are met (E.g. CI/CD, logging, security)
• Operational responsibility and support agreements for the delivered solution are clearly defined
• Design overall technical solution and ensure technical fit within the customer ecosystem and target architecture
• Design integration and data model using Cognite data connectors, SQL, Python/Java and Rest APIs
• Credible advisor to our customers and partners on Cognite Data Fusion

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years experience as an application/data engineer/solution/enterprise architect or Machine learning engineer
• Degree in engineering, computer science, physics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent demonstrated experience
• Hands-on in python as well as a good hands-on expertise with software development best practices.
• Have experience with enterprise integration, customer relationships or IT integration design
• Data and analytics project experience and able to confidently lead an implementation
• 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, as well as experience architecting centralized monitoring, logging and reporting
• Have a DevOps mindset, and experience with Git, CI/CD, deployment environments
• Have architectural skills dealing with data modeling and infrastructure solutions, such as classical data warehousing and big data architectures

Preferred Experience

• Experience from the heavy asset industry (Oil & Gas, Manufacturing or Pharmaceuticals) is required
• Experience with operational data and customer business drivers in the heavy asset industry
• Consulting experience that allows you to confidently negotiate requirements with customers and colleague

A snapshot of our many perks and benefits as a Cogniter

• Join an organization of 60 different nationalities with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus
• A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization, follow us on Instagram @cognitedata to know more
• Flat structure with direct access to decision-makers
• Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries, with cutting edge technology
• Join our HUB to be part of the conversation directly with Cogniters and our partners.
• Get access to private health services with Cognite Care.
• Hungry? We’ve got your back. A subsidized lunch at the canteen is delivered by the chefs at Fornebuporten (Aker Tech House)
• Our own Cognite exclusive coffee bar with the friendliest baristas is here to brew coffee for coffee lovers, tea for tea lovers, smoothie for smoothie lovers, and the baristas creative concoctions when the mood strikes.
• We take your mental- and physical health seriously by having a broad health offering and a free membership to our fully-staffed gym on-site.
• A pet lover? Get the chance to meet Spotat the Robot Garden!

Learn more about us

• Impact 2025
• Cognite’s Industrial AI: Moonshot
• We’re globally recognized domain experts with an international presence that spans Phoenix, Houston, Oslo Tokyo, Bengaluru, and Abu Dhabi.

_ Equal Opportunity _

Cognite is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment at work and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive the same level of consideration for employment.