Remote Principal Data Governance Architect

Lumen; Honolulu (HI); Remote; USD 160,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life benefits

Voluntary lifestyle benefits

Job summary

Lumen is seeking a Principal Data Governance Architect to own governance architecture standards and drive enterprise data governance across our multi-cloud data estate. You will ensure alignment with the EA taxonomy and DARB-approved architecture while guiding tool choices and migration strategies.

You will represent governance in major architecture decisions, partner on migration programs, and shape platform strategy conversations.

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

Data architecture

DARB involvement

Databricks Lakehouse

Multi-cloud

FedRAMP/CUI data segregation

Technical writing

Architecture review

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Delta Live Tables

Azure

Oracle

SAP

Salesforce

Palantir

Job description

Lumen is seeking a Principal Data Governance Architect to own governance architecture standards and drive enterprise data governance across our multi-cloud data estate. You will ensure alignment with the EA taxonomy and DARB-approved architecture while guiding tool choices and migration strategies.

You will represent governance in major architecture decisions, partner on migration programs, and shape platform strategy conversations.