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 integral 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 Data

Zone 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.

Responsibilities: * Own the Lakehouse architecture, Unity Catalog design and medallion standards that every domain team builds against. * Author and maintain Architecture Decision Records for the platform. * Design integration patterns for ingestion, processing and serving, and codify them as reusable reference implementations. * Review domain designs and contribute to code reviews. * Co-own the reference pattern library and evolve it wave over wave. * Design Fin

Ops guardrails and observability across the platform. * Contribute to agent rules and skill definitions so architectural standards are enforced by generation rather than documentation.

Why this position: * Own the architecture of a large-scale enterprise data platform migration from the ground up — reference patterns, Unity Catalog design and medallion standards that every domain team builds against.

Youll work at the leading edge of the Databricks ecosystem on a high-stakes lakehouse build, applying agentic engineering tooling to enforce standards through generation rather than documentation, and shaping the platforms technical foundations alongside a parallel data governance workstream.

📌 Data Architect (España)
🏢 Intellias
📍 España