Principal / Senior Data Architect

Title: Principal / Senior Data Architect Active Metadata, Semantic Data & Data Governance
Location: Menlo Park, CA Remote
12Month Contract

Job Description

• 10+ years in Enterprise Data Architecture, Data Strategy, Metadata Engineering, and Semantic Data Design.
• Architect SelfHealing Data Fabric and metadatadriven automation across enterprise platforms.
• Deep experience building Active Metadata Infrastructure and closedloop automation for data quality and governance.
• Implement metadatatriggered pipelines for schema drift detection, automated repair, remediation, and rollback.
• Expert in RDF, OWL, SHACL, SPARQL for ontologydriven modeling, semantic reasoning, and knowledge graph design.
• Build contextaware knowledge graphs enabling semantic search, lineage, discovery, and policy reasoning.
• Handson experience with Open Policy Agent (OPA) or equivalent PolicyasCode frameworks for zerotrust data access.
• Implement programmatic governance, automated compliance, and finegrained data access controls.
• Experience with DataHub Actions Framework for eventdriven metadata orchestration and automated dataquality workflows.
• Experience with Caelum or Amundsen pushevents for realtime metadata ingestion, schema management, and drift remediation.
• Strong understanding of eventdriven architecture, data virtualization, zerocopy data sharing, and enterprise governance.
• Proven ability to automate schema rollback, structural drift remediation, and metadatadriven orchestration pipelines.
• Master s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Formal Methods, Symbolic Logic, or Computational Mathematics preferred.