Remote Data Architect: Lakehouse & Unity Catalog Lead

Intellias; España; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Intellias is hiring a Data Architect to join our delivery team on a large-scale enterprise data platform migration for a financial services client. This is a hands-on role, remote from Spain, co‑owning the pattern library with the client's architecture team and delivering reference implementations to unblock engineering decisions across the programme.

You will lead the Lakehouse architecture, Unity Catalog design and medallion standards while helping scale data governance as the platform

Qualifications

• 10+ years of data platform architecture experience.
• Hands-on Databricks in production environments.
• Experience implementing enterprise data catalogs integrated with a technical catalogue.
• Fluent working English.
• Ability to author reference implementations and unblock engineering decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own the Lakehouse architecture, Unity Catalog design and medallion standards that every domain team builds against.
• Author and maintain Architecture Decision Records for the platform.
• Design integration patterns for ingestion, processing and serving, and codify them as reusable reference implementations.
• Review domain designs and contribute to code reviews.
• Co‑own the reference pattern library and evolve it wave over wave.
• Design FinOps guardrails and observability across the platform.
• Contribute to agent rules and skill definitions so architectural standards are enforced by generation rather than documentation.

Skills

Databricks

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Lakehouse architecture

Spark

Photon

Data governance

Code reviews

Tools

Collibra

Purview

Alation

AWS DataZone

Job description

Intellias is hiring a Data Architect to join our delivery team on a large-scale enterprise data platform migration for a financial services client. This is a hands-on role, remote from Spain, co‑owning the pattern library with the client's architecture team and delivering reference implementations to unblock engineering decisions across the programme.

You will lead the Lakehouse architecture, Unity Catalog design and medallion standards while helping scale data governance as the platform