Remote Principal Data Governance Architect

Lumen; Frankfort (KY); Remote; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Voluntary lifestyle benefits

Job summary

Lumen is seeking an experienced Principal Data Governance Architect to own governance architecture standards and serve as the EA authority for governance programs. You’ll influence major architecture decisions, migration programs, and platform strategy while ensuring alignment with EA taxonomy and DARB approvals.

This remote role welcomes candidates nationwide in the U.S. You’ll collaborate with Data Engineering EA on migrations and governance-embedded design, outlining clear governance

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 inculding 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

Governance-by-design

DARB participation

Databricks Lakehouse

Multi-cloud platforms

Data architecture standards

Technical writing

Job description

Lumen is seeking an experienced Principal Data Governance Architect to own governance architecture standards and serve as the EA authority for governance programs. You’ll influence major architecture decisions, migration programs, and platform strategy while ensuring alignment with EA taxonomy and DARB approvals.

This remote role welcomes candidates nationwide in the U.S. You’ll collaborate with Data Engineering EA on migrations and governance-embedded design, outlining clear governance