Federated Metadata Architect: Governance & Semantics

Intellias; City Of London; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Intellias invites an expert Data Architect to lead federated metadata architecture for a major London-based investment management client. You will shape central discovery, domain catalogs, and federation contracts, ensuring alignment with the client's existing catalog models and governance processes.

The role requires deep experience in metadata standards, data governance, and semantic layer design, with strong client-facing capabilities to drive design decisions and acceptance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data architecture or data platform roles.
• 3+ years in metadata management, data governance or data cataloguing.

Responsibilities

• Own the federated metadata architecture: central discovery layer, domain catalogs, and federation contract.
• Design domain metadata models with client teams without replacing existing catalogues.
• Define machine-derived metadata approach: auto-harvested vs drafted by LLMs vs manual with quality scoring.
• Design semantic layer: business terms, entity resolution, and knowledge graph for guided discovery.
• Act as design authority for engineering pod and align parallel implementations.

Job description

Intellias invites an expert Data Architect to lead federated metadata architecture for a major London-based investment management client. You will shape central discovery, domain catalogs, and federation contracts, ensuring alignment with the client's existing catalog models and governance processes.

The role requires deep experience in metadata standards, data governance, and semantic layer design, with strong client-facing capabilities to drive design decisions and acceptance.