Data Architect (Metadata, Governance & Semantics) Location: Remote from Spain (an indefinite Spanish employment contract) Our client is a leading integral 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. Project Overview: 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. Data Hub, Open Metadata, Collibra or similar), including deployments outside managed cloud services — understanding of the concepts matters more than any specific product.
Open Lineage, 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 da

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