Senior Solution Architect

Summary

Join Cognite's Global Customer Success team as a Senior Solutions Architect, designing complex end-to-end solutions that integrate Cognite's flagship products with client portfolios. You will be a technical expert, collaborating with sales and delivery teams, data scientists, and customers to define technical requirements and build robust solutions. This role involves consulting, architecture, and product development, contributing to the improvement of Cognite's SaaS offerings. The position is hybrid, based in Austin, Houston, or Phoenix. Cognite offers a supportive team environment and numerous benefits.

Requirements

• 7+ years experience as an application/data/solution/enterprise architect
• 2+ years of experience from the heavy asset industry related to downstream, petrochemicals or energy 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

Responsibilities

• 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 robust
• Important 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

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation including base plus bonus
• 401(k) with 4% employer matching
• Health, Dental, Vision & Disability Coverages with premiums fully covered for employees and all dependents
• Unlimited PTO + flexibility to enjoy it
• 18 Company Holidays including the week between Christmas & New Years
• Paid Parental Leave Program
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Employee Referral Program
• In office catered lunches 3x per week via Colorfull Catering + Fully Stocked Fridges in the offices
• Join a team of 70 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
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