Data Architect

Location: Remote from Spain (an indefinite Spanish employment contract)

We are hiring a Data Architect to join an Intellias delivery team on a large-scale enterprise data platform migration programme for a financial services client. This is a hands-on architect role. You will co-own the pattern library with the client’s architecture team, write reference implementations, and unblock engineering decisions across the programme.

Project Overview:

Our client is an independent, active general asset manager with over R3 trillion in assets under management. They are executing a firm-wide data strategy to govern, manage and engineer data as a product across more than 70 business-owned sub-domains.

As part of this, they are migrating to Databricks as the foundational layer of their Enterprise Data Platform, adopting a lakehouse architecture built on open formats, declarative pipelines and Unity Catalog.

Requirements:
- 10+ years of data platform architecture experience, with several years on Databricks in production.
- Deep hands-on knowledge of Delta Lake, Unity Catalog,



Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, Spark, Photon and Databricks Asset Bundles.
- Strong data modelling: entity resolution, slowly changing dimensions, event and state modelling, semantic layer design.
- Experience designing Azure-native EDP topologies (workspaces, clusters, network, identity, cost controls).
- Experience implementing enterprise data catalogues (Collibra, Purview, Alation, AWS DataZone or similar) integrated with a technical catalogue.
- Comfortable writing reference code, reviewing PRs and pairing with engineers.
- Fluent working English.

Nice to have:
- Active Databricks certifications
- Prior exposure to investment management platforms, asset management operations data, market data feeds from major providers
- CDMP DAMA or TOGAF certification.
- Experience applying agentic engineering tooling to platform work, including MCP-connected Databricks or cloud servers.

Respons

📌 Data Architect (España)
🏢 Intellias
📍 España