Principal Data Architect(Active metadata)( RDF, OWL, SHACL..)- Remote-12Months

Position Overview

Principal Data Architect(Active metadate)( RDF, OWL, SHACL,)- Remote-12Months

• Job Title: Principal Data Architect
• Location: Menlo Park, CA – Remote
• Role Type: 12-Month Contract
• Experience: 10+ years

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Data Architect to design and build an enterprise-scale Self-Healing Data Fabric. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in modern data architecture, active metadata, semantic technologies, data governance, and event-driven automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design enterprise-scale Data Fabric and Data Architecture solutions.
• Build metadata-driven, self-healing data pipelines and automated schema remediation.
• Develop ontology-based data models using RDF, OWL, SHACL, and SPARQL.
• Implement Policy-as-Code and zero-trust data access using OPA or equivalent.
• Build event-driven data quality and governance automation.
• Work with DataHub Actions Framework and Caelum or Amundsen push-events.
• Implement automated schema rollback and data-quality remediation.
• Design data virtualization and zero-copy architectures.

Required Skills

• 10+ years of Data Architecture experience.
• Strong Active Metadata / Data Fabric experience.
• RDF, OWL, SHACL, SPARQL.
• OPA / Policy-as-Code / Zero Trust.
• DataHub Actions Framework.
• Caelum or Amundsen.
• Event-driven data quality automation.
• Schema drift detection and remediation.
• Data virtualization and zero-copy architecture.