Senior Solution Architect

Cognite; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Houston is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to design end-to-end solutions that merge company products with client needs. The ideal candidate will have over 7 years of architectural experience, particularly in the Oil & Gas or Manufacturing sectors. A Bachelor's degree is required, and a Master’s is a plus. This role emphasizes collaboration and technical expertise in data and analytics stacks, ensuring innovative solutions for clients. Competitive salary package offered.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience as an application/data/solution/enterprise architect.
• 2+ years in the heavy asset industry (Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals).
• Strong skills in data modeling and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end solutions merging products with customer’s needs.
• Act as a technical expert across services.
• Identify opportunities for new product features.

Skills

Application architecture

Data and analytics

Enterprise integration

Business Intelligence tools

DevOps practices

Consultation & negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Apache Spark

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Senior Solutions Architect

Location: Houston, TX

Salary: $100,000.00-$140,000.00 (as posted)

Overview

Cognite operates at the forefront of industrial digitalization, building AI and data solutions that solve some of the world’s hardest, highest-impact problems. Our moonshot is bold: unlock $100B in customer value by 2035 and redefine how global industry works.

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

Responsibilities

• Design complex end‑to‑end solutions merging Cognite flagship products with the customer’s portfolio for both new and existing clients.
• Act as a technical subject matter expert across the professional and managed services catalog from discovery through implementation.
• Work closely with sales, delivery teams, data scientists, and customers to map technical requirements and architect robust, familiar solutions.
• Identify opportunities for new products and features, and work with product managers and tech leads to continuously improve Cognite’s SaaS offering.
• Ensure data visualisation and transformation technologies are selected and applied correctly (e.g., Power BI, Grafana, Plotly Dash, Databricks, Azure, GCP, AWS).
• Model and contextualise data efficiently in Cognite Data Fusion (graph and relational).
• Design integration and data models using Cognite data connectors, SQL, Python/Java, and REST APIs.
• Set clear operational responsibility and support agreements for delivered solutions.
• Maintain quality criteria (CI/CD, logging, security), operational monitoring, logging, and reporting.
• Serve as a credible advisor to customers and partners on Cognite Data Fusion.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience as an application/data/solution/enterprise architect.
• 2+ years of experience from the heavy asset industry (Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, or Pharmaceuticals).
• Experience with operational data and customer business drivers in the heavy asset industry.
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree a plus.
• Consulting experience that allows confident negotiation of requirements with customers and colleagues.
• Experience with enterprise integration, customer relationships, or IT integration design.
• Data and analytics project experience, and ability to confidently lead an implementation.
• Broad technical experience with data and analytics stacks.
• Familiarity with Business Intelligence tools and enterprise analytics stacks (Power BI or similar).
• Familiarity with SQL and big data tooling (e.g., Apache Spark ecosystem).
• Experience with a public cloud (preferably AWS, GCP, or Azure), including network security concepts, identity providers, and application hosting.
• Experience with operations, including support and change control, and architecting centralized monitoring, logging, and reporting.
• DevOps mindset, with experience with Git, CI/CD, deployment environments.
• Technical background, willing and able to dive into code for advanced topics when needed.
• Architectural skills dealing with data modeling and infrastructure solutions, such as classical data warehousing and big data architectures.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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.