#GlobalMarkets #DataArchitect
About The Job
- The 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 webpage.
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
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 1985, BNP Paribas today has more than 9.220 employees, distributed across the Group's 10 business entities established in the country. Its presence also extends to 11 centres of expertise providing value-added services to various countries where the BNP Paribas Group also operates.
- Diversity and Inclusion commitment
BNP Paribas ´ambition Is To Cultivate An Open And Responsive Environment For All That Encourages Collaboration And Interaction. We Demonstrate Our Commitment By Actively Contributing To The Group’s Diversity And Inclusion Strategy And Goals, In Line With The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. As Part Of Our Local Corporate And Social Responsibility – Diversity & Inclusion Strategy, BNP Paribas Portugal Is Committed To
- Promote a fair and unbiased recruitment process and offer professional development opportunities to all employees
- Celebrate diversity and advocate for inclusion, both externally and internally, encouraging employee’s participation, creating space for different voices to be heard.
To foster the effort of BNP Paribas Portugal, multiple initiatives and events take place throughout the year where our people can find out more on the importance of diversity inclusion at the workplace and in our society.
- Remote Working Conditions
At BNP Paribas, we embrace a Smart Working framework based on trust, autonomy and collaboration. Within this framework, eligible employees can benefit from flexible remote working options adapted to our hybrid working environment. To ensure a comfortable and efficient working setup, eligible employees are provided with both office and home equipment, are entitled to an equipment allowance and can benefit from exclusive partnerships to purchase additional items at reduced prices.
- Commitment towards work/life balance
Supporting employees in a hybrid way of working while providing them with the means to maintain a work-life balance is an essential dimension of our Smart Working program. At BNP Paribas, we care about our employees’ wellbeing and promote a culture of good integration between work and personal life.
To find out more on why you should join BNP Paribas please read our Employee Value Proposition and our Career path page.
- Please note that only applications submitted in English will be considered.
- In case you are selected for this role, further documentation will be requested to support your hiring process.