Senior Data Architect

### Senior Data Architect (Contract) Engagement: Data Strategy & AI Enablement Location: Remote ### About Meaningful AI Meaningful AI helps organizations unlock the value in their data. We design and build AI-driven data platforms, taking clients from raw, undocumented data environments through to canonical models, semantic layers, and analytics-ready infrastructure. ### What You'll Do Design canonical data models for core business domains Discover and interpret schemas across complex legacy datasets (like Databricks) Reverse-engineer existing data structures and infer relationships across systems Establish standardized naming conventions, data definitions, and source-to-canonical mappings Collaborate with client data teams to understand data structures, calculated fields, and transformation logic Design semantic layers and data governance frameworks Provide architectural direction for downstream data models ### Advise on ML-ready data products ### What We're Looking For ### Required: Strong data modeling and schema design experience (conceptual, logical, physical) Experience with Databricks and/or Spark-based data platforms Demonstrated ability to reverse-engineer undocumented schemas and infer entity relationships Experience building canonical or enterprise data models in complex, multi-source environments Semantic layer design experience (ideally with Power BI as the downstream consumer) Comfortable working with business stakeholders to define data definitions and governance policies ### Eager to learn AI tooling ### Strongly Preferred: Experience in regulated industries with complex data environments Experience with Medallion Architecture (bronze/silver/gold patterns) Familiarity with enterprise transaction and accounting systems ### Experience with modern AI tool sets ### Environment Our client environments are managed with strict security controls and restricted internet access. You should be comfortable working within enterprise security constraints. Originally posted on [Himalayas](https://himalayas.app)