Remote Principal Data Governance Architect

Lumen; Carson City (NV); Remote; USD 152,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Life insurance

Voluntary benefits

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

Lumen seeks an accomplished Principal Data Governance Architect to lead enterprise governance architecture across the data estate. You will ensure alignment with EA taxonomy, establish guardrails for tooling, and represent governance in major architecture decisions and migration programs.

Remote in the U.S. with broad cross-cloud experience, you will guide standards, review tool fit, and influence vendor selections while collaborating with Data Engineering EA and the DARB.

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.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

10+ years data architecture

DARB experience

Databricks Lakehouse

Multi-cloud

CUI/FedRAMP

Technical writing

Tools

Azure

Oracle

SAP

Salesforce

Palantir

Job description

Lumen seeks an accomplished Principal Data Governance Architect to lead enterprise governance architecture across the data estate. You will ensure alignment with EA taxonomy, establish guardrails for tooling, and represent governance in major architecture decisions and migration programs.

Remote in the U.S. with broad cross-cloud experience, you will guide standards, review tool fit, and influence vendor selections while collaborating with Data Engineering EA and the DARB.