Data Architect (Metadata, Governance & Semantics)
Location: Remote from Spain (an indefinite Spanish employment contract)

Our client is a leading general investment management company headquartered in London. It manages over $228 billion in assets and serves institutional investors, pension funds, wealth managers, and other sophisticated clients worldwide. The firm specializes in quantitative investing, alternative investments, systematic trading strategies, and technology-driven asset management. Data science, machine learning, and AI are core components of its investment and research processes.
Agentic Security and AI-Ready Data Foundations.

We build the data foundations that make AI useful and safe inside regulated financial firms. The value of AI is capped by the data its agents can reach: if an agent cannot find, interpret, trace or be correctly permissioned against data, the capability is useless, or worse, unsafe. 8+ years in data architecture or data platform roles, including 3+ years in metadata management,



data governance or data cataloguing across a large and diverse data estate.
~ Architectural experience with enterprise data catalogues (e.g. DataHub, OpenMetadata, Collibra or similar), including deployments outside managed cloud services — understanding of the concepts matters more than any specific product.
~ OpenLineage, Open Data Contract Standard or similar) and experience integrating with proprietary in-house metadata and event models.
~ Proven design of federated (hub-and-spoke) metadata architectures: a central layer for identity, hierarchy and links, domain-level catalogues with rich local detail, and a clear contract between the two.
~ Practical experience with data governance operating models: ownership and stewardship roles, sensitivity classification, metadata quality measurement.
~ design-level knowledge of graph databases.
~ Experience working in on-premises or regulated environments: data residency, auditability, licence-scoped data enti

📌 Senior Data Engineer (Santiago de Compostela)
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