Senior Solution Architect

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Houston, TX, USA
Hybrid
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Software • Analytics • Industrial • Generative AI • Big Data Analytics
Cognite makes data accessible and meaningful for our industrial customers.
The Role
Designs complex end-to-end solutions integrating Cognite SaaS products with customer ecosystems. Leads requirements mapping, data modeling, integrations, visualization, cloud architecture, security, monitoring, CI/CD, and operational support design. Advises customers and partners, leads implementation teams, identifies product opportunities, and collaborates with sales, delivery, product, and technical teams. Requires substantial solution architecture experience, heavy asset industry expertise, consulting skills, and broad data, analytics, cloud, and DevOps knowledge.
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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
At Cognite, the Global Value Delivery team leads software implementation, deployment & adoption for clients, and helps them accelerate their digital transformation efforts with Cognite’s product suite. We consist of people with diverse and high-performance backgrounds, ranging from Management Consulting, to Industry and Software development. We seek to continuously improve how we work with our clients, how we work together as a team, and how we develop as individuals.
 
The Senior 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.
  • As a Senior 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
The Impact you bring to Cognite
  • 5+ years experience as an application/data/solution/enterprise architect
  • 2+ years of 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
  • Bachelor's degree is required; Masters degree a plus
  • Consulting experience that allows you to confidently negotiate requirements with customers and colleagues
  • Have experience with enterprise integration, customer relationships or IT integration design
  • Data and analytics project experience and able 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 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
  • Technical background, willing and able to dive in and contribute code for advanced topics when needed
  • Have architectural skills dealing with data modeling and infrastructure solutions, such as classical data warehousing and big data architectures
A snapshot of our many perks and benefits as a Cogniter
  • Competitive compensation
  • 401(k) with employer matching
  • Competitive health, dental, vision & disability coverages for employees and all dependents
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Paid Parental Leave Program
  • Employee Referral Program
  • Join a team 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
  • Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries
  • Join our HUB 🗣️ to be part of the conversation directly with Cogniters and our partners.
  • Paid mobile phone and WiFi
 
 
 
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.

Skills Required

  • 5+ years of experience as an application, data, solution, or enterprise architect
  • 2+ years of experience in the heavy asset industry, such as oil and gas, manufacturing, or pharmaceuticals
  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Experience with operational data and customer business drivers in the heavy asset industry
  • Consulting experience negotiating requirements with customers and colleagues
  • Experience with enterprise integration, customer relationships, or IT integration design
  • Data and analytics project experience with the ability to lead an implementation
  • Broad technical experience with data and analytics stacks
  • Familiarity with business intelligence tools and enterprise analytics stacks, such as Power BI
  • Familiarity with SQL and big data tooling, such as the Apache Spark ecosystem
  • Experience with a public cloud platform, preferably AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Familiarity with network security concepts, identity providers, and application hosting
  • Experience with operations, support, change control, centralized monitoring, logging, and reporting
  • DevOps mindset and experience with Git, CI/CD, and deployment environments
  • Technical background and ability to contribute code for advanced topics
  • Architectural skills involving data modeling, infrastructure solutions, data warehousing, and big data architectures
  • Master’s degree

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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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The Company
HQ: Oslo
751 Employees
Year Founded: 2016

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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