Remote Principal Data Governance Architect

Lumen; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 152,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Voluntary lifestyle benefits

Job summary

Lumen seeks an experienced Principal Data Governance Architect to own governance architecture standards and represent governance in major architecture decisions across the enterprise. This role focuses on EA taxonomy alignment and governance guardrails for tooling, not implementation.

Remote opportunity across the U.S.; candidates with 10+ years in enterprise data architecture and Databricks Lakehouse expertise are welcome.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise data architecture with governance-by-design orientation.
• DARB or architecture review board participation experience.
• Databricks Lakehouse: 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 DARB representative and review new data initiatives before approval.
• Evaluate tool fit against Lumen's multi-platform data estate and flag integration complexity and risk.
• Partner with Data Engineering EA on migration architecture with governance embedded by design.
• Author and maintain governance architecture decision records in SharePoint.
• Advise on platform architectural trade-offs in vendor evaluations.

Skills

Data architecture

Governance by design

DARB participation

Databricks Lakehouse

Azure multi-cloud

Technical writing

Security/compliance

Tools

Unity Catalog

Delta Live Tables

Databricks

CUI/FedRAMP

Job description

Lumen seeks an experienced Principal Data Governance Architect to own governance architecture standards and represent governance in major architecture decisions across the enterprise. This role focuses on EA taxonomy alignment and governance guardrails for tooling, not implementation.

Remote opportunity across the U.S.; candidates with 10+ years in enterprise data architecture and Databricks Lakehouse expertise are welcome.