Remote Principal Data Governance Architect

Lumen; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 167,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Voluntary benefits

Job summary

Lumen is seeking an experienced Principal Data Governance Architect to own governance architecture standards across the enterprise. This remote role supports enterprise data architecture, governance, and platform strategy in a fast‑moving AI‑focused environment.

You will represent governance in major architecture decisions, oversee DARB processes, and ensure alignment with the EA taxonomy and data architecture review board approvals.

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

Governance by design

DARB experience

Databricks Lakehouse

Unity Catalog

Multi-cloud

CUI/FedRAMP data

Technical writing

Tools

Databricks Delta Live Tables

Databricks Unity Catalog

Azure

Oracle

SAP

Salesforce

Palantir

Job description

Lumen is seeking an experienced Principal Data Governance Architect to own governance architecture standards across the enterprise. This remote role supports enterprise data architecture, governance, and platform strategy in a fast‑moving AI‑focused environment.

You will represent governance in major architecture decisions, oversee DARB processes, and ensure alignment with the EA taxonomy and data architecture review board approvals.