Senior Metadata Architect for AI-Driven Data Governance

Aether Biomedical; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Aether Biomedical is seeking a Senior Data Architect to design enterprise metadata, governance strategies, and federated architectures supporting AI initiatives in a regulated environment.

You will lead architecture workshops, define data glossaries, and collaborate with engineering and business teams to ensure scalable data foundations for AI adoption. This role emphasizes governance, data quality, and knowledge graphs across multiple domains.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Data Architecture or Data Platform roles.
• 3+ years of experience in Metadata Management, Data Governance, or Data Cataloging.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise data catalog solutions such as DataHub, OpenMetadata, Collibra or similar platforms.
• Strong understanding of Metadata Management, Data Lineage, Data Discovery, Data Quality, Entity Resolution.
• Experience designing federated (hub-and-spoke) metadata architectures; knowledge of semantic modeling, business glossaries, and knowledge graphs.
• Strong stakeholder management and consulting skills; ability to present architecture documentation to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and own enterprise metadata and data discovery architectures.
• Define metadata management and data governance strategies.
• Build federated metadata architectures across multiple business domains.
• Design semantic layers, business glossaries, and knowledge graphs.
• Establish metadata quality standards and governance processes.
• Lead architecture workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
• Act as a design authority and provide architectural guidance to engineering teams.
• Create architecture documentation and support strategic data and AI initiatives.

Skills

Enterprise metadata

Data governance

Data discovery

Semantic modeling

Knowledge graphs

Data lineage

Architecture workshops

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

DataHub

OpenMetadata

Collibra

Job description

Aether Biomedical is seeking a Senior Data Architect to design enterprise metadata, governance strategies, and federated architectures supporting AI initiatives in a regulated environment.

You will lead architecture workshops, define data glossaries, and collaborate with engineering and business teams to ensure scalable data foundations for AI adoption. This role emphasizes governance, data quality, and knowledge graphs across multiple domains.