Senior Solution Architect

Houston, TX, United States

About Cognite and Cogniters

Cognite is a global leader in industrial software with our Industrial DataOps platform, Cognite Data Fusion, at the core. We were awarded the 2022 Technology Innovation Leader for Global Digital Industrial Platforms .

At Cognite, the Global Customer Success 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.

This role is a Hybrid role our of the Austin office. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer relocation assistance.

What You'll Do 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

Who You Are 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

Why choose Cognite? Join us in making a real and lasting impact in one of the most exciting and fastest-growing new software companies in the world.

We have repeatedly demonstrated that digital transformation, when anchored on strong DataOps, drives business value and sustainability for clients and allows front-line workers, as well as domain experts, to make better decisions every single day.

Cognite Earns 2023 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award; Recognized as a Global Leader in Energy & Resources and Industrials & Manufacturing

And just recently, Frost & Sullivan named Cognite a Technology Innovation Leader !

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A snapshot of our many perks and benefits as a Cogniter 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

Company Paid Friday Lunch via DoorDash + 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

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Cognite is a global industrial SaaS company that was established with one clear vision: to rapidly empower industrial companies with contextualized, trustworthy, and accessible data to help drive the full-scale digital transformation of asset-heavy industries around the world. Our core Industrial DataOps platform, Cognite Data Fusion, enables industrial data and domain users to collaborate quickly and safely to develop, operationalize, and scale industrial AI solutions and applications to deliver both profitability and sustainability. Visit us at www.cognite.com and follow us on Twitter @CogniteData or LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognitedata

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; everyone we hire will receive the same level of consideration for training, compensation, and promotion.

We ask for gender as part of our application because we want to ensure equal assessment in the recruitment process. Your answer will help us reach this commitment! However, the question about gender is optional and your choice not to answer will not affect the assessment of your application in any way.

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