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. 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.
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.

Prior exposure to investment management platforms, asset management operations data, market data feeds from major providers
Experience applying agentic engineering tooling to platform work, including MCP-connected Databricks or cloud servers.
Own the Lakehouse architecture, Unity Catalog design and medallion standards that every domain team builds against.
Co-own the reference pattern library a

📌 Data Architect (Cequeliños)
🏢 Intellias
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