Remote Principal Data Governance Architect

Lumen; Boise (ID); Remote; USD 156,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

Lumen is seeking an experienced Principal Data Governance Architect to be the enterprise architecture authority for the governance program. You will ensure alignment of governance standards and domain data models with the EA taxonomy and the Data Architecture Review Board, owning the governance architecture standards layer and guiding tooling to conform to architectural guardrails.

This is a remote role in the U.S.

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 incuding reference architectures and data segregation patterns.
• Serve as governance team's standing DARB representative; governance reviews required for new initiatives.
• Evaluate architectural fit of new tools against Lumen's data estate; flag complexity and risk.
• Partner on migration architecture with governance embedded by design and checkpoints in migrations.
• Author and maintain governance decision records in SharePoint.
• Advise on platform architectural trade-offs in vendor evaluations.

Skills

Enterprise data architecture

Governance-by-design

DARB participation

Databricks Lakehouse

Unity Catalog

Multi-cloud platforms

FedRAMP/CUI data segregation

Technical writing/ARs

Tools

Databricks Unity Catalog

Delta Live Tables

Azure

SQL

Job description

Lumen is seeking an experienced Principal Data Governance Architect to be the enterprise architecture authority for the governance program. You will ensure alignment of governance standards and domain data models with the EA taxonomy and the Data Architecture Review Board, owning the governance architecture standards layer and guiding tooling to conform to architectural guardrails.

This is a remote role in the U.S.