Remote Enterprise Data Governance Architect

Lumen Technologies, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 152,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Voluntary lifestyle benefits

Bonus program

Job summary

Lumen Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Data Governance Architect to provide enterprise architecture authority for governance. You will define standards, ensure alignment with the EA taxonomy, and guide governance decisions across migrations and platform strategy.

The role requires deep data architecture experience, DARB participation, and expertise with Databricks Lakehouse and Unity Catalog in a multi-cloud environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise data architecture with governance-by-design orientation.
• DARB or architecture review board participation experience.
• Databricks Lakehouse architecture expertise — Medallion, Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables.
• Broad platform fluency — Azure, Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, Palantir, multi-cloud.
• CUI/FedRAMP data segregation architecture experience preferred.
• Strong technical writing; produces architecture decision records that remain useful 12 months after the decision.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise data architecture standards for governance including reference architectures and data segregation patterns.
• Serve as governance team's standing Data Architecture Review Board (DARB) representative.
• Evaluate architectural fit of new tools against Lumen's multi-platform data estate; flag complexity and risk.
• Partner on migration architecture providing governance embedded by design with checkpoints in migrations.
• Author and maintain governance architecture decision records in SharePoint.
• Advise on platform architectural trade-offs in vendor evaluations.

Skills

Data governance

Enterprise architecture

Architecture reviews

Databricks Lakehouse

Multi-cloud

Tools

Databricks Lakehouse

Unity Catalog

Delta Live Tables

SharePoint

Job description

Lumen Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Data Governance Architect to provide enterprise architecture authority for governance. You will define standards, ensure alignment with the EA taxonomy, and guide governance decisions across migrations and platform strategy.

The role requires deep data architecture experience, DARB participation, and expertise with Databricks Lakehouse and Unity Catalog in a multi-cloud environment.