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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Architect - **Company:** Intellias - **Location:** Oña, Spain - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Code Review, Data Architecture, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Enterprise Data Management, Apache Spark, Data Strategy, Togaf, Data Lakes, Collibra, Databricks - **Published:** September 13, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.buscojobs.com.es/data-architect-en-ona-ID-371650256 ## About the Role They are executing a firm-wide data strategy to govern, manage and engineer data as a product across more than 70 business-owned sub-domains.As part of this, they are migrating to Databricks as the foundational layer of their Enterprise Data Platform, adopting a lakehouse architecture built on open formats, declarative pipelines and Unity Catalog.Requirements:- 10+ years of data platform architecture experience, with several years on Databricks in production. - Deep hands-on knowledge of Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, Spark, Photon and Databricks Asset Bundles. - Strong data modelling: entity resolution, slowly changing dimensions, event and state modelling, semantic layer design. - Experience designing Azure-native EDP topologies (workspaces, clusters, network, identity, cost controls). - Experience implementing enterprise data catalogues (Collibra, Purview, Alation, AWS DataZone or similar) integrated with a technical catalogue. - Comfortable writing reference code, reviewing PRs and pairing with engineers. - Fluent working English.Nice to have:- Active Databricks certifications- Prior exposure to investment management platforms, asset management operations data, market data feeds from major providers- CDMP DAMA or TOGAF certification. - Experience applying agentic engineering tooling to platform work, including MCP-connected Databricks or cloud servers.Responsibilities:- Own the Lakehouse architecture, Unity Catalog design and medallion standards that every domain team builds against. ## Description Data ArchitectLocation: Remote from Spain (an indefinite Spanish employment contract)We are hiring a Data Architect to join an Intellias delivery team on a large-scale enterprise data platform migration programme for a financial services client.This is a hands-on architect role.You will co-own the pattern library with the client's architecture team, write reference implementations, and unblock engineering decisions across the programme.Project Overview:Our client is an independent, active global asset manager with over R3 trillion in assets under management.They are executing a firm-wide data strategy to govern, manage and engineer data as a product across more than 70 business-owned sub-domains.As part of this, they are migrating to Databricks as the foundational layer of their Enterprise Data Platform, adopting a lakehouse architecture built on open formats, declarative pipelines and Unity Catalog.Requirements:- 10+ years of data platform architecture experience, with several years on Databricks in production.- Deep hands-on knowledge of Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, Spark, Photon and Databricks Asset Bundles.- Strong data modelling: entity resolution, slowly changing dimensions, event and state modelling, semantic layer design.- Experience designing Azure-native EDP topologies (workspaces, clusters, network, identity, cost controls).- Experience implementing enterprise data catalogues (Collibra, Purview, Alation, AWS DataZone or similar) integrated with a technical catalogue.- Comfortable writing reference code, reviewing PRs and pairing with engineers.- Fluent working English.Nice to have:- Active Databricks certifications- Prior exposure to investment management platforms, asset management operations data, market data feeds from major providers- CDMP DAMA or TOGAF certification.- Experience applying agentic engineering tooling to platform work, including MCP-connected Databricks or cloud servers.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.Why this position:- Own the architecture of a large-scale enterprise data platform migration from the ground up - reference patterns, Unity Catalog design and medallion standards that every domain team builds against.You'll work at the leading edge of the Databricks ecosystem on a high-stakes lakehouse build, applying agentic engineering tooling to enforce standards through generation rather than documentation, and shaping the platform's technical foundations alongside a parallel data governance workstream. ## Related Videos - [Empowering Retail Through Applied Machine Learning](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/976-empowering-retail-through-applied-machine-learning) - [Modern Data Architectures need Software Engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1030-modern-data-architectures-need-software-engineering) - [The Data Mesh as the end of the Datalake as we know it](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/156-the-data-mesh-as-the-end-of-the-datalake-as-we-know-it) - [From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100203-from-messy-queries-to-scalable-systems-how-data-engineering-actually-works) - 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