Position Title:  Meta and Reference Data Architect

Please be aware that this role can be located in Madrid, Spain or Albarraque, Portugal  

Be a part of a revolutionary change 

At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re totally transforming our business and building our future on one clear purpose – to deliver a smoke-free future. 

With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So, wherever you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions. 

We are seeking a Metadata and Reference Data Architect to lead the design and implementation of enterprise-wide metadata and reference data frameworks. In this role, you will ensure that data and metadata are accurately documented, easily discoverable, and seamlessly interoperable across systems. 

This position plays a pivotal role in advancing our data governance, analytics, and digital transformation initiatives. You will be responsible for establishing robust metadata systems, driving data quality standards, and enabling efficient data management practices that foster innovation and informed decision-making across the organization. 

Key Accountabilities 

• Metadata Systems Architecture: Architect and design integration patterns for metadata repositories, catalogs, and lineage tools across our enterprise data platforms. 

• Metadata Strategy & Governance: Develop and enforce metadata standards, policies, and best practices. Contribute to metadata governance policies and processes across the organization. Ensure metadata and reference data management practices comply with data privacy and regulatory requirements. 

• Metadata Modeling: Design and maintain enterprise metadata models at conceptual and logical levels. Collaborate with the senior ontologist and subject matter experts, on taxonomies and ontologies for structured and unstructured data. 

• Reference Data Architecture: Define and maintain the enterprise reference data architecture, including model archetypes, standards, and hierarchies. Collaborate with Master Data Management teams to ensure alignment and interoperability.   

• Metadata Quality Assurance and Support: Define, in collaboration with the Data Quality managers, architectures, patterns and controls to ensure metadata accuracy, completeness, and consistency. Support quality monitoring and improvement. 

• Tooling & Automation: Evaluate and implement metadata management tools. Provide requirements for automating metadata capture and synchronization. 

• Knowledge Sharing & Collaboration: Provide guidance and training on metadata standards and tools. Collaborate with governance, engineers, ontologists, architects, and business stakeholders. Lead the metadata community of practice.   

• Metadata Innovation: Research and propose new tools, technologies, and methodologies to enhance metadata practices.  

We’re looking for someone with: 

Education  

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field. 

 Work Experience 

1. 5+ years of experience in metadata management, data architecture, or enterprise data governance. 

2. 5+ experience with industry metadata and reference data standards (e.g., ISO 11179, DAMA-DMBOK, FAIR). 

3. Hands-on experience with metadata management tools such as Atlan, Informatica, or IBM. 

4. Familiarity with W3C semantic standards (e.g., OWL, SHACL, SKOS) 

5. Demonstrated ability to communicate complex metadata concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. 

6. Familiarity with metadata modeling, reference data architecture, and data quality frameworks. 

 Key Capabilities:  

1. Predictive capabilities - ability to anticipate issues and risks and react before they happen. Ability to see causes and effects through the supply chain. 

2. Analytically Savvy - Ability to process, use, understand, interpret and synthetize large amount of data to make decisions and improve business performance 

3. Business Acumen - Ability to communicate analytical analysis in comprehensive manner link it to the business environment with an understanding of their implications 

4. Influencing Skills - Ability to influence process improvement and changes cross functionally 

5. Interpersonal Skills - Ability to communicate effectively up and down the organization and manage conflicts 

6. Leadership Skills - Aptitude to lead others, drive performance of your organization. Be a champion of processes and drive change across your network 

7. System Savvy - Ability to comprehend system landscape, data flow and system functionalities to drive system usage and automation 

 What we offer: 

Our success depends on the talented people who come to work every single day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for progress. 

You will join a company that invests in you. We will support your growth as an employee through individual development and structured career management. You will join a dynamic, fast-paced work environment in a constantly evolving industry. Our employees have the courage, curiosity, and conviction to see possibilities where others only see challenges. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package. 

Join PMI and you too can: 

• Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to take risks, experiment and explore. 

• Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone’s contribution is respected; collaborate with some of the world’s best people and feel like you belong. 

• Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress. 

• Take pride in delivering our promise to society: to deliver a smoke-free future. 

For more information, please visit www.pmi.com and www.pmiscience.com. 

Things to know before you apply:    

Relocation support is not available for this job    

If you have been in your current job for less than 12 months or if you are on a Performance Improvement Program, you must get the approval of your current manager before applying for the job.      

If you are not a PMI employee and employed by an agency, please make a formal application via the external career site at www.pmi.co