Data Architect - Active Metadata

Data Architect
Location: Menlo Park, CA (Remote)
Role Type: Contract

Experience: 12+ Years

Role Overview:
We are seeking a visionary to architect a Self-Healing, Autonomous Data Fabric. You will replace legacy ETL with a "nervous system" where metadata is active, governance is computational, and data sharing is zero-copy.

Mandatory Skills:
- Active Metadata: Experience building closed-loop automation (e.g., metadata-triggered autonomous schema repair).
- Semantic Engineering: Mastery of RDF, OWL, and SHACL for ontology-first modeling and SPARQL reasoning.
- Production-level Open Policy Agent (OPA)/ Policy-as-Code(Zero-Trust) for dynamic, context-aware access control.

Other Technical Skills:
- Advanced Privacy: Implementation of Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) or SMPC for analytics on encrypted PII.
- Zero-Copy Architecture: Expertise in Delta Sharing for cross-cloud analytics without egress.
- Compute: Trino (GraalVM), StarRocks, DuckDB (WASM).
- Orchestration: Dagster, Airflow (Provider-level).
- Semantic Layer: Stardog, Apache Jena, GraphQL Federation.
- System Languages: Rust, Clojure, or Java.

Education
M.S./Ph.D. in Computer Science (Formal Methods/Logic) or Computational Mathematics.

Pre-Screening Questions
Q1: Does he have experience with Active Metadata?
Q2: Does he have experience with RDF, OWL, and SHACL?
Q3: Does he have experience with Open Policy Agent (OPA)/ Policy-as-Code(Zero-Trust)

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