Data Architect

#GlobalMarkets #DataArchitect
About the jobThe role entails maintaining, evolving, and stewarding the existing data platform while acting as a hands‐on architect who designs, implements, and operates a comprehensive tooling ecosystem that ensures reliability, observability, and compliance
Your Main Activities Are
Develop and maintain the data product catalogue, lineage, and metadata standards, Metadata and Semantic Layer
Design, implement, and continuously improve a centralized metadata repository
Define and enforce semantic models, particularly business vocabularies, canonical data entities and logical data contracts that translate raw tables into understandable business objects
Maintain lineage graphs that are automatically refreshed on each pipeline run
Coordinate efforts with wider bank initiatives related to metadata
Governance, Transparency and Compliance, which involves providing transparent dashboards for data lineage, access logs, and data quality health that are consumable by business users, auditors, and regulators
Lead quarterly data governance reviews, focusing on data ownership and access
Integrate with broader data governance initiatives
Tooling and Automation, which consists in implementing self-service data product templates that embed semantic metadata automatically
Introduce observability for data pipelines and lineage updates
Collaboration and knowledge sharing, which involves working with domain owners to capture business definitions and map them to technical entities
Conduct regular sessions on metadata best practices
Mentor engineers on embedding semantic annotations
Performance and cost optimisation, meaning continuously monitor query latency, storage consumption, and compute capabilities
Propose and implement cost saving actions, particularly partitioning, clustering and caching
Profile and Skills to Success
Master's degree in engineering or computer science
Fluency in English, both oral and written
3 years of experience in Data Platform Operations, particularly operating large‐scale data databases, lakes or warehouses
Proven experience building and maintaining a data catalogue and lineage system, such as Datahub, Amundsen, Collibra and Alation
Ability to design business‐level vocabularies, canonical data models, and data contracts;
experience with Data Mesh or domain‐oriented data products.
Experience with formal verification
Hands‐on experience with ML‐based profiling tools, such as Great Expectations + ML, Monte Carlo, Datafold and Bigeye or the ability to develop custom models, for anomaly detection
Knowledge of data‐privacy frameworks;
experience creating transparent audit trails
Tooling and Automation, which includes CI and CD, such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and Jenkins, dbt v0.21+, Airflow, Dagster and Prefect
Python, which includes pandas and pyarrow, SQL and columnar databases
Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry, or equivalent for pipeline monitoring
Track record of mentoring engineers and translating technical metadata concepts to business audiences
About the team
Global Markets, the capital markets division of BNP Paribas' Corporate & Institutional Banking, is a powerhouse delivering top-tier solutions across asset classes.
Our Portugal Platform (Porto and Lisbon) stands as a major European HUB and a unique player in the country, boasting a wide range of Front Office roles and services – Trading, Sales, Research, Structuring, Quants & Engineering, Business Dev and Support, Marketing & Client Support, Risk Management, Data Analytics and Machine Learning.
With rapid growth and ambitions to make a global impact, we offer numerous short and long-term opportunities.
Get a glimpse into our world- Check out our Global Markets Portugal(Opens in a new tab) webpage.
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Why joining BNP Paribas?
Leading banking institution
Leading player in banking and financial services in Europe, BNP Paribas operates in 64 countries and has nearly 178,000 employees, including more than 144,000 in Europe
International reach
The Group holds key positions in several areas of banking and financial services that are structured around three operating divisions:
Corporate & Institutional Banking(CIB) connects companies needing financing and institutional clients looking for investment opportunities division that offers tailored financial solutions for corporate and institutional clients
Commercial, Personal Banking & Services(CPBS) brings together all our commercial banks and several specialised businesses heard
Investment & Protection Services(IPS) combines a unique continuum of products and services across protection, saving, investment and real estate including specialised businesses offering a wide range of savings, investment and protection services
Our presence in Portugal
In Portugal since ****,