Remote Principal Data Governance Architect

Lumen; Helena (MT); Remote; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen seeks a Principal Data Governance Architect to own governance architecture standards for the enterprise data program, aligning to the EA taxonomy and DARB approvals. You will shape governance guardrails, influence major architecture decisions, and guide platform strategy in a remote U.S.

setting. Responsibilities include representing governance in architecture reviews, evaluating tool fit across a multi-cloud data estate, and partnering on migration architecture with governance embedded by

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, 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

Enterprise data architecture

Governance-by-design

DARB participation

Databricks Lakehouse

Azure

Oracle

SAP

Salesforce

Palantir

FedRAMP data segregation

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Delta Live Tables

Job description

Lumen seeks a Principal Data Governance Architect to own governance architecture standards for the enterprise data program, aligning to the EA taxonomy and DARB approvals. You will shape governance guardrails, influence major architecture decisions, and guide platform strategy in a remote U.S.

setting. Responsibilities include representing governance in architecture reviews, evaluating tool fit across a multi-cloud data estate, and partnering on migration architecture with governance embedded by