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.
