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# Principal Data Governance Architect

- **Company:** Lumen Inc
- **Location:** Montgomery, AL, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $152,066.0 - $202,755.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Oracle (Applications), Salesforce.Com, SAP (Applications), Microsoft SharePoint, Multi-Cloud, Databricks
- **Published:** October 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3462152904&tx=UT5248TYV&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

Lumen is looking for an experienced Principal Data Governance Architect that will be responsible for enterprise architecture authority for the governance program. This person will ensure tool assessment findings, governance standards, and domain data models align to Lumen's EA taxonomy and Data Architecture Review Board (DARB) approved architecture. They will own the governance architecture standards layer, not the tooling implementation, but the architectural guardrails the tooling must conform to. Will represent governance in all major architecture decisions, migration programs, and platform strategy conversations., * 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