Data Platform Architect: Discovery, Catalog & AI Access

Agilent Technologies Inc.; Barcelona; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Agilent Technologies Inc. is seeking a Data Architect to own discovery and access for a federated platform. You will define catalog boundaries, service contracts, and integration patterns, guiding data registration, search, and AI-enabled access across systems.

You will design read paths for AI agents, ensure provenance, and collaborate with engineering to implement the target state while maintaining governance and security standards.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering, data engineering, or architecture with distributed systems
• Defined architecture ahead of finalized standards and governance
• Experience with data catalogs or search/indexing systems
• Proficient in SQL and read execution plans in PostgreSQL/SQL Server
• Reads production code and can build proofs of concept

Responsibilities

• Define target state for catalog and access paths including service boundaries and contracts
• Own schemas, contracts, and data service views for the program
• Design access paths used by AI readers with provenance and controls
• Write decision records and diagrams and communicate tradeoffs to engineers and managers

Skills

Distributed systems

Data catalogs

APIs

PostgreSQL/SQL Server

C#, Java, or TypeScript

AI tools in architecture

Education

8+ years in software engineering/architecture

Tools

Apollo Federation

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

DataHub/OpenMetadata

Job description

Agilent Technologies Inc. is seeking a Data Architect to own discovery and access for a federated platform. You will define catalog boundaries, service contracts, and integration patterns, guiding data registration, search, and AI-enabled access across systems.

You will design read paths for AI agents, ensure provenance, and collaborate with engineering to implement the target state while maintaining governance and security standards.