Senior Principal Frontend Architect
Cognite
Software Engineering, IT
Oslo, Norway
Posted on Jul 10, 2025
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.
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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.
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 frontend architecture. The architecture covers both our own applications, and also how we enable our customers to build and deploy their own solutions on top of our platform. As a principal architect you will be responsible for setting coding standards, designing unified testing methods and methodology, with a focus on frontend application implementation strategies. You will also work hands-on with teams to translate the standards into actual code and ensure alignment across teams so we ensure seamless integration between the applications.
You will also work closely with our design department, AI development teams and other architects to help shape the UX used by both industrial domain experts and developers. Part of the work will be to work with backend architects on API design to best enable ourselves and our customers to build solutions for solving real industrial problems that can be data intensive.
As a Senior Principal Frontend Architect at Cognite you will:
- Lead the technical design of how we develop our application frontends
- Define the common standards for how we develop and test our applications
- 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)
- Be the voice of the application developers when we design the end to end systems to ensure our customers and partners can efficiently integrate with our solutions
- Work with our security teams on instilling safe and robust development practices for our frontend technology stack
- Mentor senior developers
We believe most of these should match you and your experience:
- 4+ years of frontend development experience
- Experience architecting complex frontend systems at scale
- Good overview over the frontend ecosystem and standard ways of working
- Strong coding fundamentals within the common frontend stacks
- Strong software development background with experience in implementing good practises for testing and development standards across large codebases
- Familiarity with design systems and building component libraries
- Experience with designing data oriented user experiences
- Understanding of how to design high performance applications that are responsive and feels nimble to the user
- Hands-on experience with deploying varied applications across the major public clouds
- Beneficial if experience is fullstack, but not required
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 sustainabilityfor 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 -
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