Senior Data Governance Architect - Remote

Lumen; Lincoln (NE); Remote; USD 152,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Lumen is a trusted network leader, enabling AI-ready connectivity across cloud, edge, and AI workloads. We seek a Principal Data Governance Architect to own governance architecture standards, align with EA taxonomy, and represent governance in major architecture decisions.

Remote opportunity across the U.S. You will drive governance architecture decisions, review new data initiatives, and collaborate on migration architectures with governance embedded 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.
• 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 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

Multi-cloud

Technical writing

Tools

Databricks Lakehouse

Unity Catalog

Delta Live Tables

Job description

Lumen is a trusted network leader, enabling AI-ready connectivity across cloud, edge, and AI workloads. We seek a Principal Data Governance Architect to own governance architecture standards, align with EA taxonomy, and represent governance in major architecture decisions.

Remote opportunity across the U.S. You will drive governance architecture decisions, review new data initiatives, and collaborate on migration architectures with governance embedded by design.