AI-Native Data Platform Engineer — Governance & Metadata

FashionUnited; København; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Pandora is building a next-generation Data Platform to power its global business from Copenhagen. You’ll join the team responsible for governance and metadata across Unity Catalog, Confluent Schema Registry, and OpenMetadata, ensuring datasets are owned, described, and compliant by default.

The role emphasizes AI‑native development, scalable automation, and strong software engineering—CI/CD, Terraform, and Python.

Qualifications

• Demonstrably AI-native mindset and ability to structure prompts and repos for production-grade outputs.
• Deep hands-on experience with Unity Catalog, metastore architecture, and access control.
• Experience with Confluent Schema Registry, including schema evolution and compatibility rules.
• Strong software engineering foundation: API design, CI/CD, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve Data Governance APIs to register, discover, and validate data products.
• Build AI-enhanced governance automation using LLMs to classify data and auto‑generate documentation.
• Design and implement the access management model for data in the platform.
• Operate and automate Unity Catalog and Schema Registry configuration at scale.
• Maintain and extend OpenMetadata based data catalog and ingestion pipelines.
• Instrument governance adoption metrics to measure success.

Skills

AI-native mindset

Unity Catalog

Confluent Schema Registry

API design

CI/CD

Python

Shell scripting

OpenMetadata

Tools

Terraform

OpenMetadata

Job description

Join Pandora to work on one of the most compelling data platform challenges of 2026 - the Data Platform that sits underneath the world's largest jewellery company. The platform serves teams across consumer engagement, retail, supply chain, finance, merchandising, and manufacturing, operating across more than 100 countries and 6,800 points of sale. What it enables sets the ceiling on what the rest of the business can do with data.

You'll join the team that owns the governance solution and metadata layer of the platforms: Unity Catalog, Confluent Schema Registry, and OpenMetadata. Our mission is simple to state and hard to do: every published dataset is owned, described, and compliant by default, at scale. We don't write policy documents; we turn policy into automated solutions. And we build that the way the best engineering teams will build everything in 2026: AI-native.

Key responsibilities:

• Design, build, and evolve our Data Governance APIs: the programmatic interface through which the enterprise registers, discovers, and validates data products across Unity Catalog, Schema Registry, and OpenMetadata.
• Build AI-enhanced governance automation: using LLMs to classify data, suggest descriptions, detect schema drift, flag compliance gaps, and auto-generate documentation at scale with the eval harnesses that prove it works.
• Design and implement the access management model for data in the platform, mapping business-domain ownership and apply patterns to Unity Catalog via groups, roles and column-level controls.
• Operate and automate Unity Catalog and Schema Registry configuration at scale: Terraform, CI/CD-integrated compatibility checks, and permission drift detection.
• Maintain and extend our OpenMetadata based data catalog, including custom ingestion pipelines, metadata consistency enforcement, and API integrations.
• Instrument governance adoption metrics e.g compliance rates, ownership coverage, schema quality trends to measure success.

What you bring:

• A demonstrably AI-native way of working: you use coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar) as a daily multiplier, not a novelty and you can show how you structure prompts, context, and repos so agents produce production-quality output.
• A testing and evaluation mindset: you treat evals for LLM-powered features with the same rigour as unit tests for deterministic code.
• Deep hands-on experience with Unity Catalog: metastore architecture, fine-grained access control, and programmatic management via CLI, API, and Terraform.
• Experience with Confluent Schema Registry, including schema evolution and compatibility rules.
• A strong software engineering foundation: API design, testing, CI/CD, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Proficiency in Python, shell scripting, and Terraform.
• Strong communicator to tech and business audience

Nice to have:

• Experience with OpenMetadata or comparable data catalogs (DataHub, Atlan, Collibra), including their ingestion frameworks and API layers.
• Experience shipping LLM-powered tooling to production including prompt pipelines, eval frameworks, or agent orchestration.
• Familiarity with Delta Lake internals and how they interact with Unity Catalog governance.

More Information:

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We hope you got all your questions answered and feel confident applying for this position. If you see yourself in the role and would like to become a part of Pandora’s future, please do not hesitate to apply! We are an international team, so please make sure to send us your application in English to be considered. We look forward to hearing from you!

We process applications on a continuous basis, which is why we encourage you to send your application as soon as possible. You can also read more about Pandora on our corporate site www.pandoragroup.com .

Icing on the cake
You will be working out of our beautiful Digital & Technology Hub in Copenhagen, in a rapidly growing environment of highly skilled and experienced colleagues, which is a key initiative that goes along with Pandora’s experience & ambitions.Besides our beautiful interior design, we are also proud of our LEED Gold Certification for Energy and Environmental Design. This means that we use as few natural resources as possible and that we use them with respect. The result is a professional and dynamic space that is unique, comfortable and inspirational – and delivers a true Pandora experience to anyone who works here or comes to visit.

About Pandora

Pandora is the world's largest jewellery brand, specialising in the design, crafting and marketing of accessible luxury jewellery made from high-quality materials. Each piece is created to inspire self-expression, allowing people to share their stories and passions through meaningful jewellery. Pandora jewellery is sold in more than 100 countries through 7,000 points of sale, including more than 2,800 concept stores.

Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pandora employs around 39,000 people worldwide and crafts its jewellery with 100% recycled silver and gold. Pandora is committed to leadership in sustainability and has set out to halve greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by 2030. Pandora is listed on the Nasdaq Copenhagen stock exchange and generated revenue of DKK 32.5 billion (EUR 4.4 billion) in 2025.

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