Remote Enterprise Data Governance Architect for AI & Cloud

Lumen; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 167,000 - 223,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen is seeking a Principal Data Governance Architect to lead enterprise governance architecture for the organization. You will define standards, review board governance, and ensure alignment with the EA taxonomy and data architecture strategy across cloud platforms.

In this remote role, you will influence decision making, drive secure data practices, and partner with Data Engineering and vendor teams to implement governance by design in complex migrations and platform initiatives.

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.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise data architecture standards for governance including reference architectures, Unity Catalog governance patterns, data platform governance integration models, CUI/commercial data segregation patterns.
• Serve as governance team's standing Data Architecture Review Board (DARB) representative — all new data initiatives affecting governed domains must pass a governance architecture review before DARB approval.
• Evaluate architectural fit of new tools against Lumen's multi-platform data estate; flag integration complexity and dependency risk in Track 1 assessments.
• Partner with Data Engineering EA on migration architecture providing governance embedded by design, with checkpoints in CDW-to-Databricks and other active migration SOWs.
• Author and maintain governance architecture decision records in SharePoint.
• Advise the Director, Data Governance Technology on platform architectural trade-offs in vendor evaluations.

Skills

Data governance design

DARB experience

Databricks Lakehouse

Multi-cloud platforms

Technical writing

Governance standards

Tools

SharePoint

Job description

Lumen is seeking a Principal Data Governance Architect to lead enterprise governance architecture for the organization. You will define standards, review board governance, and ensure alignment with the EA taxonomy and data architecture strategy across cloud platforms.

In this remote role, you will influence decision making, drive secure data practices, and partner with Data Engineering and vendor teams to implement governance by design in complex migrations and platform initiatives.