Remote Principal Data Governance Architect

Lumen Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 152,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Bonus opportunities

Job summary

Lumen Technologies is seeking a Principal Data Governance Architect to own governance standards and architecture guardrails across the data landscape. The role focuses on enterprise data governance, DARB engagement, and guiding tool choices while ensuring alignment with Lumen's EA taxonomy and data strategy.

You will influence platform strategy decisions, support migrations, and collaborate with data engineers to embed governance by design.

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.
• 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 and Unity Catalog governance patterns.
• Serve as governance team's DARB representative for new data initiatives requiring governance review.
• Evaluate architectural fit of new tools against Lumen's multi‑platform data estate and flag complexity and risk.
• Partner with Data Engineering EA on migration architecture with governance embedded by design and checkpoints in migrations.
• Author and maintain governance architecture decision records in SharePoint.
• Advise on platform architectural trade-offs in vendor evaluations.

Skills

Data governance

DARB experience

Databricks Lakehouse

Technical writing

Job description

Lumen Technologies is seeking a Principal Data Governance Architect to own governance standards and architecture guardrails across the data landscape. The role focuses on enterprise data governance, DARB engagement, and guiding tool choices while ensuring alignment with Lumen's EA taxonomy and data strategy.

You will influence platform strategy decisions, support migrations, and collaborate with data engineers to embed governance by design.