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Data Architect - Active Metadata

ILink Systems Inc.
Menlo Park, CA Remote Full Time
POSTED ON 6/28/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/28/2026
Data Architect
Location: Menlo Park, CA (Remote)
Role Type: Contract


Experience: 12+ Years

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.

Education
M.S./Ph.D. in Computer Science (Formal Methods/Logic) or Computational Mathematics.

Pre-Screening Questions
Q1: Does he have experience with Active Metadata?
Q2: Does he have experience with RDF, OWL, and SHACL?
Q3: Does he have experience with Open Policy Agent (OPA)/ Policy-as-Code(Zero-Trust)

Disclaimer: i-Link Solutions Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We especially invite women, minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities to apply. EEO/AA/M/F/Vet/Disability.

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