Senior Principal Architect
Job Description
- Lead the technical design of data integration and contextualization services.
- Make technical decisions that give Cognite a competitive edge.
- Take advantage of recent advancements in AI to develop a future-proof data integration product.
- Ensure that the architecture in the Data Integration Product Area is aligned with Cognite’s architecture principles, scalable, meets SLOs, and is cost-efficient.
- Contribute to the overall architecture and architecture principles at Cognite.
- Evaluate and select technologies, frameworks, libraries, and tools and drive their adoption.
- Lead by example by working with teams to ensure standardization.
- Work cross-functionally to understand customer, partner, and delivery service needs.
- Work closely with delivery teams and other product areas to ensure data integration capabilities cater to their needs.
- Mentor senior developers.
- Join an organization of 70 different nationalities with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus.
- Office location Rathi Legacy (Rohan Tech Park) Hoodi (Bengaluru).
- A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization.
- Flat structure with direct access to decision-makers, with minimal bureaucracy.
- Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects.
- Join our HUB to be part of the conversation directly with Cogniters and our partners.
- Hybrid work environment globally.
About Cognite
Embark on a transformative journey with Cognite, a global SaaS forerunner in leveraging AI and data to unravel complex business challenges through our cutting-edge offerings including Cognite Atlas AI, an industrial agent workbench, and the Cognite Data Fusion (CDF) platform. We were awarded the 2022 Technology Innovation Leader for Global Digital Industrial Platforms & Cognite was recognized as 2024 Microsoft Energy and Resources Partner of the Year. In the realm of industrial digital transformation, we stand at the forefront, reshaping the future of Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Pharma and other Manufacturing and Energy sectors. Join us in this venture where AI and data meet ingenuity, and together, we forge the path to a smarter, more connected industrial future.
Learn more about Cognite here
Our values
Impact: Cogniters strive to make an impact in all that they do. We are result-oriented, always asking ourselves.
Ownership: Cogniters embrace a culture of ownership. We go beyond our comfort zones to contribute to the greater good, fostering inclusivity and sharing responsibilities for challenges and success.
Relentless: Cogniters are relentless in their pursuit of innovation. We are determined and deliverable (never ruthless or reckless), facing challenges head-on and viewing setbacks as opportunities for growth.
About the team
The Office of the CTO is responsible for the architecture of Cognite Data Fusion, and ensuring it has a robust and scalable platform for solving industrial data problems for our customers. We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated software architect that can lead the design, development, and evolution of our data integration architecture. The architecture covers data ingestion, staging, transformation, contextualization and data pipeline orchestration. There is a large opportunity to make a step change in this area using generative AI. As a principal architect you will be responsible for the technical design of our foundational services and technology choices. These designs and choices must give Cognite a long term competitive advantage by allowing us to execute on our product roadmap, while maintaining scalability, robustness and cost efficiency.
How you will create an impact
- Lead the technical design our data integration and contextualization services
- Make technical decisions that give Cognite a competitive edge
- Take advantage of recent advancements in AI to develop a future-proof data integration product
- Ensure that the architecture in the Data Integration Product Area is aligned with Cognite’s architecture principles, that it is scalable, can meet its SLOs and that cloud cost scales in a reasonable manner
- As part of the Office of the CTO, contribute to the overall architecture and architecture principles at Cognite
- Evaluate and select technologies, frameworks, libraries and tools and drive the adoption of these in our teams
- Lead by example by working with the teams to ensure the right level of standardization (and to help out where specialization is needed)
- Work cross functionally to understand the needs of our customers, partners and delivery services with regards to data integration
- Work closely with delivery teams and other product areas to ensure our data integration capabilities cater to their needs and works well with the rest of our product, for example by making sure that AI agents can be embedded into our data pipelines
- Mentor senior developers
What you bring
- 10+ years of development experience
- 5+ years of experience working with data integration, data engineering, big data technologies or similar
- Experience architecting complex systems at scale
- Good overview of data engineering technologies like Spark, Airflow/Conductor, Kafka, ETL/ELT, Blob storage/Parquet/Iceberg/Delta tables, Langgraph
- Experience building products that use probabilistic technologies such as machine learning or AI
- Strong software development background with typed & compiled languages. Experience with JVM is a plus.
- Experience in implementing good practises for testing and development standards across large codebases
- Understanding of how to design high performance systems that consistently deliver on SLOs
- Experience working with k8s and managed services (PaaS) on one or more of the major public clouds: AWS, Azure or GCP
- Experience working with OAuth2.0, OpenID Connect, Entra ID and other authentication services
Join the global Cognite community! 🌐
- Join an organization of 70 different nationalities 🌐 with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus 🤝
- Office location Rathi Legacy (Rohan Tech Park ) Hoodi (Bengaluru)
- A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization, follow us on Instagram @cognitedata 📷 to know more
- Flat structure with direct access to decision-makers, with minimal amount of bureaucracy
- 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.
- Hybrid work environment globally
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. We were recognized as one of CNBC's top global enterprise technology startups powering digital transformation! And just recently, Frost & Sullivan named Cognite a Technology Innovation Leader! 🥇 Most recently Cognite Data Fusion® Achieved Industry First DNV Compliance for Digital Twins 🥇
Apply today!
If you're excited about the opportunity to work at Cognite and make a difference in the tech industry, we encourage you to apply today! We welcome candidates of all backgrounds and identities to join our team.
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