Data Architect - Active Metadata | Remote | 12+ years of experience

Role: Data Architect - Active Metadata

Location: Menlo Park, CA (Remote)

Role Type: Contract

Experience: 12+ Years

Job Description

Role Overview

We are seeking a visionary to architect a Self-Healing, Autonomous Data Fabric.

You will replace legacy ETL with a "nervous system" where metadata is active, governance is computational, and data sharing is zero-copy.

Mandatory Skills: - Active Metadata: Experience building closed-loop automation (e.g., metadata-triggered autonomous schema repair). - Semantic Engineering: Mastery of RDF, OWL, and SHACL for ontology-first modeling and SPARQL reasoning. - Production-level Open Policy Agent (OPA)/ Policy-as-Code(Zero-Trust) for dynamic, context-aware access control.

Other Technical Skills: -

 Advanced Privacy: Implementation of Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) or SMPC for analytics on encrypted PII.

• Zero-Copy Architecture: Expertise in Delta Sharing for cross-cloud analytics without egress.
• Compute: Trino (GraalVM), StarRocks, DuckDB (WASM).
• Orchestration: Dagster, Airflow (Provider-level).
• Semantic Layer: Stardog, Apache Jena, GraphQL Federation.

 - System Languages: Rust, Clojure, or Java.

Note

Education M.S./Ph.D. in Computer Science (Formal Methods/Logic) or Computational Mathematics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.