Senior Enterprise Architect - Downstream, Chemical Manufacturing (Industrial Digitalization)
Cognite
IT, Other Engineering
Houston, TX, USA
Posted on Mar 13, 2025
About Cognite
Embark on a transformative journey with Cognite, a global SaaS forerunner in leveraging data to unravel complex business challenges through our cutting-edge 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 digitalization, we stand at the forefront, reshaping the future of Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Energy sectors. Join us in this venture where data meets 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.
As Cognite’s customer base continues to grow, so does our need for talented Enterprise Architects. We are looking for Senior Enterprise Architects to work with our global tech sales and field engineering teams.
About Our Team! Our global tech sales team consists of some of the best subject matter experts in the industry. We include top-tier software programmers, data scientists, designers, product managers, enterprise architects, 3D developers, and commercial professionals. Our international team is setting the standard for industrial software by accelerating innovation in data contextualization, advanced visualizations, and machine learning for the process and energy industries.
The Enterprise Architect team currently consists of 11 individuals with diverse backgrounds, all sharing a passion for data, technology, and architecture. This professional group is responsible for enterprise and technical architecture across Cognite’s global projects. We facilitate technical setups, translating requirements and strategies into solution design and governance processes. In short, we set our customers up for success with a solid digital foundation.
About the Role As a Senior Enterprise Architect, you are a key member of our technical sales team, and will work directly with key customers, field sales, delivery, and product development teams on a global scale. This position requires a strong technical background, excellent communication skills, and the ability to coach and collaborate effectively. You will leverage your seniority and technical competencies to help industrial customers increase productivity, profitability, reduce environmental impact, and reduce costs. Our customers are large international process and energy industries facing challenges in asset performance and maintenance, production efficiency, and sustainability. Together with the team, you will guide the customer, help define solutions and support each integration through to a successful finish.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for end-to-end architecture, solution design, and leading teams of technical experts towards successful solution delivery.
- Provide strategic and technical expertise and support for customers and customer-facing project teams. Offer guidance and develop solutions that enable customers’ business use cases.
- Define complete enterprise and solution architecture, including integration, data models, and data ingestion pipelines, as well as user-facing solutions.
- Ensure operational responsibility and support agreements for the delivered solutions.
- Establish strong relationships with key stakeholders, including C-level executives, IT Data Managers, and Business Data Managers, to drive long-term adoption of Cognite’s products and services.
- Train partners and internal teams in your area of specialization, including the creation of training materials, modeling guidelines, standards, and best practices.
- Independently manage integration, data modeling, and similar activities using Cognite data connectors and extractors, SQL, Python/Java, REST APIs, and business intelligence tooling.
- Collaborate with our Engineering and Product Management teams to turn customer needs into a prioritized pipeline of product offerings.
- Develop and maintain technical and business expertise for Cognite’s products.
- Define reference architectures and work with software engineers in the internal enablement team.
- Support pre-sales with technical expertise and ensure a seamless transfer to the delivery phase.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor or master degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Technology or similar
- 5-10 years or more relevant experience in similar positions (Enterprise Architecture/Solution Architecture), preferably within one or more of Cognite’s target industry domains (O&G, Manufacturing, P&U), with familiarity with common source systems and data types.
- Proven ability to connect with and coach technical stakeholders, building credible relationships on various levels of the organization
- Confidence to negotiate requirements with customers and colleagues, preferably with experience from consulting.
- Experience with technical topics such as enterprise integration strategies and design, data and analytics stacks, public cloud, identity providers and network security concepts
- Experience hosting technical sessions with customers and colleagues, including workshops, demos and similar.
- Experience with Git, CI/CD and deployment environments.
- Development/scripting of integrations and solutions using languages as Python/.NET/, with good understanding of JSON/YAML.
- Self-motivated with a results-oriented mindset
- Ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team
- Proficiency in English is a requirement
- Highly organized, thorough, and excellent communication skills with all stakeholders.
- Ability to collaborate, lead, coach, and work independently.
- Passion for data, technology, and “how things work.”
- Comfortable and interested in detailed technical design and code behavior.
- Experience with Oil & Gas, process industries, or manufacturing is beneficial, particularly domain knowledge such as asset performance/integrity management, flow assurance, chemical plants, or production optimization.
- Travel will be required for customer-facing roles.
- Ability to travel/internationally and regionally 30-60% of the time
What We Offer:
Competitive salary and benefits package.
Opportunities for career growth and development.
A supportive and collaborative team environment.
A chance to work on cutting-edge technology and make a significant impact.
We strive to build a diverse team that can leverage different strengths and backgrounds to build innovative products and nurture a great culture. We hire at different levels depending on your experience.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. 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
* 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
*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.
* Built In 2024 Best Places to Work in Austin, TX and Houston, TX
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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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.