Remote Principal Data Governance Architect

Lumen; Olympia (WA); Remote; USD 152,000 - 223,000; 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 for enterprise governance and architecture alignment with the EA taxonomy. This role focuses on governance standards and architecture guardrails, not tooling implementation, and involves representation in major architecture decisions and migration programs.

Remote in the U.S. with responsibilities spanning DARB governance, tool evaluation, and platform strategy to support AI-ready connectivity at scale.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise data architecture with governance-by-design orientation.
• Experience participating in DARB or architecture review boards.
• Databricks Lakehouse architecture expertise (Medallion, Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables).
• Broad platform fluency — Azure, Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, Palantir, multi-cloud.
• Strong technical writing; clear architecture decision records.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Data governance

Architecture governance

Databricks Lakehouse

Azure / multi-cloud

Technical writing

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Delta Live Tables

Azure

Oracle

SAP

Salesforce

Palantir

Job description

Lumen is seeking an experienced Principal Data Governance Architect for enterprise governance and architecture alignment with the EA taxonomy. This role focuses on governance standards and architecture guardrails, not tooling implementation, and involves representation in major architecture decisions and migration programs.

Remote in the U.S. with responsibilities spanning DARB governance, tool evaluation, and platform strategy to support AI-ready connectivity at scale.