Lead Architect, Knowledge Graph

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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.

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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 knowledge graph platform architecture. The architecture covers all of our industrial knowledge graph product area, including the data modeling service, 3D, search, files/documents and time series backends as well as our auth system. 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.

As the Lead Architect of Knowledge Graph at Cognite you will:

• Lead the technical design of our core backend services
• Make technical decisions that give Cognite a competitive edge
• Ensure that the architecture in the Knowledge Graph 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 developers building applications on top of our Knowledge Graph
• Work closely with delivery teams and other product areas to ensure our core platform caters to their needs, for example making sure that AI agents can navigate our Knowledge Graph effectively
• Mentor senior developers

We believe most of these should match you and your experience:

• 10+ years of platform development experience
• Experience architecting complex systems at scale
• Good overview over storage and indexing systems like Postgres, Elasticsearch, Blob storage and key-value stores
• Strong software development background with typed & compiled languages, experience with JVM is a plus
• Experience in implementing good practices 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

Don't meet every single requirement? We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

A snapshot of our many perks and benefits as a Cogniter

• Join an organization 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
• 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.
• Gain perks like a paid mobile telephone subscription and broadband connection.
• Get access to extended private health services with Aker Care.
• Hungry? We’ve got your back. A subsidized lunch at the canteen is delivered by our chefs who specialise in options for both vegetarians and non-vegetarian, salads and hot soups every day
• Stay fueled between meals with snacks and drinks on the house.
• Our own Cognite exclusive coffee bar ☕ with the friendliest baristas is here to brew coffee for coffee lovers, tea for tea lovers, smoothie for smoothie lovers, and the baristas creative concoctions when the mood strikes.
• We take your mental- and physical health seriously by having a broad health offering and a free membership to our fully-staffed gym on-site.
• A pet lover? Get the chance to meet Spot 🐶!

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 🥇

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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. Please do not hesitate to contact our Talent Acquisition team with any questions -