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.
As a Senior Solution Architect at Cognite, you will play a pivotal role in the Technology department within our Value Delivery organisation. In this customer-facing position, you will work directly with key customers, field sales, delivery teams, and product development. You will use your seniority and technical competencies to help to lead Norwegian and international industrial customers to increase productivity, profitability, reduce environmental impact and reduce costs. Our customers are large international process and energy industries, with challenges in asset performance and maintenance, production efficiency, and sustainability. Together with the team, you will define solutions and support each integration through to a successful finish.
- End-to-end architecture and solution design leadership.
- Providing strategic and technical expertise to support customers and the customer-facing project teams.
- Defining enterprise and solution architecture, including integration and data models and data ingestion pipelines, as well as user-facing solutions
- Expressing complex technical solutions through architecture modeling tools
- Ensure operational responsibility and support agreements for the delivered solutions
- Building strong relationships with key stakeholders, C-level executives, and IT and Business Data Managers to drive long-term adoption of Cognite’s products and services
- Training internal teams and partners in your area of specialization
- Collaborating with Sales, Engineering, and Product Management teams to translate customer needs into product offerings
- Independently work with managing integration, data modeling, and related activities using Cognite data connectors and extractors, SQL, Python/Java, Rest APIs and Cloud platform providers like Azure, AWS & Google
- Collaborate with our Sales, Engineering and Product Management teams to turn customer needs into a prioritised pipeline of product offerings
- Develop and maintain technical and business expertise for Cognite’s products
- We expect all our solutions architects to be hands-on in python as well as a good hands-on expertise with software development best practices.
- Open to travel.
- You must be highly organised, thorough, and communicate well with all stakeholders.
- Take ownership and drive tasks independently
- You will be required to collaborate, lead, and coach, as well as work independently.
Required Qualifications
- 9+ years of experience working as a Data Engineer
- Technical background, willing and able to dive in and contribute code for advanced topics when needed
Preferred Experience
- Experience in Data Engineering is preferred.
- Experience from domains like Manufacturing, Energy, O&G, Pharma, Life sciences is preferred
- 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.
Skills Required
- 9+ years of experience working as a Data Engineer
- Technical background with willingness and ability to contribute code for advanced topics
- Hands-on Python experience
- Software development best practices expertise
- Strong organization, thoroughness, and stakeholder communication skills
- Ability to collaborate, lead, coach, and work independently
- Experience in Data Engineering
- Experience in Manufacturing, Energy, Oil and Gas, Pharma, or Life Sciences
Cognite Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cognite and has not been reviewed or approved by Cognite.
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Affordable Benefits — Healthcare premiums for employees and dependents are often fully covered, reducing out‑of‑pocket costs. Feedback suggests this makes the total rewards feel competitive in key markets.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers is described as generous. This signals a family‑friendly approach that many consider a standout perk.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO with a company‑wide year‑end shutdown offers ample time away from work. Flexible time‑off options are consistently highlighted across U.S. roles.
Cognite Insights
What We Do
Cognite is an AI company that delivers industrial software to improve the production efficiency of Energy, Process Manufacturing, and other industrial companies. We deliver an Industrial DataOps platform that liberates siloed data and empowers our customers to solve some of their most complex business problems with AI-powered solutions. The typical solutions we enable drive innovative new ways to approach Data Exploration, Digital Operator Rounds, Production Optimization, Turnaround Planning, and Root Cause Analysis. We do this by automating and scaling industrial data contextualization of various sources (such as time series, engineering diagrams, equipment logs, maintenance records, 3D facility models, images, large point clouds, and more). We use AI and other tools to find and map the meaningful relationships between the data across these various sources. In addition, we provide intuitive tools that enable efficient use of analytics and automated workflows, as well as prebuilt AI capabilities and a low-code industrial agent builder, Cognite Atlas AI, that enables AI to carry out more complex operations with greater accuracy.
Why Work With Us
Employees at Cognite are pushing the envelope with the latest cloud technology, scaling industrial applications across hundreds of assets, revolutionizing industrial data models, and working with robotics. Cogniters are fast, creative, and resilient. We keep the energy high and fun, learning from our mistakes and celebrating our victories together.
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