Data Architect - Active Metadata | Remote | 12+ years of experience

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Job Description Role: Data Architect - Active Metadata Location: Menlo Park, CA (Remote): Role Type: Contract: Experience: 12+ Years: Job Description: Role Overview: We are seeking a visionary to architect a Self-Healing, Autonomous Data Fabric. You will replace legacy ETL with a "nervous system" where metadata is active, governance is computational, and data sharing is zero-copy. Mandatory Skills: - Active Metadata: Experience building closed-loop automation (e.g., metadata-triggered autonomous schema repair). - Semantic Engineering: Mastery of RDF, OWL, and SHACL for ontology-first modeling and SPARQL reasoning. - Production-level Open Policy Agent (OPA)/ Policy-as-Code(Zero-Trust) for dynamic, context-aware access control. Other Technical Skills: -: Advanced Privacy: Implementation of Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) or SMPC for analytics on encrypted PII. - Zero-Copy Architecture: Expertise in Delta Sharing for cross-cloud analytics without egress. - Compute: Trino (GraalVM), StarRocks, DuckDB (WASM). - Orchestration: Dagster, Airflow (Provider-level). - Semantic Layer: Stardog, Apache Jena, GraphQL Federation. - System Languages: Rust, Clojure, or Java. Note: Education M.S./Ph.D....