Remote Senior Data Architect Active Metadata & Data Fabric

PATTERNS LLC; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

PATTERNS LLC in the United States is seeking a Senior Data Architect (Active Metadata) to design an enterprise-scale data fabric and autonomous governance. This remote role centers on dismantling rigid ETL pathways and building a self-healing architecture with continuous metadata activity.

The candidate will leverage semantic web standards, policy-enforced access controls, and data governance automation to enable zero-copy data ecosystems and real-time quality orchestration across platforms.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data architecture and governance.
• Proven ability to design metadata-driven, self-healing data pipelines.
• Experience implementing policy-enforcement and zero-trust access controls.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering of an enterprise-scale self-healing data fabric.
• Architect metadata automation pipelines and schema self-repair mechanisms.
• Collaborate with governance and data platform teams to enable automated data quality and lineage.

Skills

Active Metadata Infrastructure

Semantic Web (RDF/OWL/SHACL)

Policy-as-Code (OPA)

Data governance & orchestration

Tools

SPARQL

Open Policy Agent

DataHub Actions Framework

Caelum / Amundsen

Job description

PATTERNS LLC in the United States is seeking a Senior Data Architect (Active Metadata) to design an enterprise-scale data fabric and autonomous governance. This remote role centers on dismantling rigid ETL pathways and building a self-healing architecture with continuous metadata activity.

The candidate will leverage semantic web standards, policy-enforced access controls, and data governance automation to enable zero-copy data ecosystems and real-time quality orchestration across platforms.