Staff Engineer - Data Modeler

Role: Data Modeler
Location: Remote USA
Employment type: Fulltime

Job Overview:

• The Senior Data Modeler will design and govern the data architecture for unstructured knowledge assets across Knowledge Management (KM) ecosystem. 
• This role bridges data engineering discipline with KM domain expertise, translating raw unstructured content (documents, case files, informal knowledge captures, chat/email extracts, etc.) into well-defined, discoverable, and secure data products within Databricks Unity Catalog. 
• This is a foundational hire for a newly formed KM Data Platform team supporting broader Knowledge and Research Systems strategy.

 
Key Responsibilities:

• Design logical and physical data models for unstructured and semi-structured content (documents, case artifacts, K-Slices, extracted knowledge fragments, metadata records) originating from KM pipelines such as case mining and informal knowledge capture workflows.
• Define domain boundaries and ownership for data products — determining what constitutes a discrete, reusable data product versus a raw or intermediate asset.
• Establish metadata standards and tagging taxonomies (content type, practice/domain, provenance, confidentiality, freshness, lineage) to ensure consistent classification across knowledge sources.
• Assign and enforce security and sensitivity classifications on data products in line with firm data governance, privacy, and legal/risk requirements.
• Register, document, and maintain data products in Databricks Unity Catalog, including schemas, access grants, lineage, and catalog-level metadata.
• Partner with data engineers building Databricks pipelines to ensure ingestion, transformation, and storage patterns align to the modeled domain structure.
• Collaborate with Knowledge Products, Research Products, and Architecture/Data/Technology stakeholders to align data product design with downstream consumption needs (e.g., surfacing in Sage/Glean, AI agent retrieval).
• Support privacy and legal review processes by ensuring data products are classified and documented to enable timely sign-off.
• Establish and document repeatable modeling standards/playbooks so future data products can be onboarded consistently as the KM platform scales.