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. 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-

📌 Data Governance Architect (Madrid)
🏢 Intellias
📍 Madrid