Senior Enterprise Data Governance Architect

Lumen; Dover (DE); Remote; USD 167,000 - 223,000; Full time

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Job summary

Lumen is seeking an experienced Principal Data Governance Architect to lead the enterprise architecture authority for the governance program. This role ensures governance standards and domain data models align with Lumen's EA taxonomy and the DARB approved architecture while owning the governance architecture standards layer, not the tooling implementation.

The position is remote within the U.S. and you will influence major architecture decisions, migration programs, and platform strategy

Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise data architecture with governance-by-design.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise data architecture standards for governance inculding 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.

Job description

Lumen is seeking an experienced Principal Data Governance Architect to lead the enterprise architecture authority for the governance program. This role ensures governance standards and domain data models align with Lumen's EA taxonomy and the DARB approved architecture while owning the governance architecture standards layer, not the tooling implementation.

The position is remote within the U.S. and you will influence major architecture decisions, migration programs, and platform strategy