Senior Lead Data Governance Architect

Lumen is the trusted network for the AI‑powered world, connecting people, data, and applications through our expansive fiber network and connected ecosystem. We enable secure, high‑performance connectivity across cloud, edge, and AI workloads for enterprises, governments, and communities.

At Lumen, you’ll work on infrastructure customers rely on today and build for what’s next, where performance, security, and resilience matter.

This is a high accountability environment where bold ideas drive real innovation for our customers, partners, and industry. The work is challenging, expectations are clear, and trust is built into how we operate. If you’re ready to take ownership, deliver meaningful impact, and help shape the future of AI‑ready connectivity, join us today.

Lumen is seeking a strategic and technically adept Senior Lead Data Governance Architect to lead delivery of its data governance technology program. The role sits on Lumen's Telemetry, Observability & Technology team within the Office of the Chief Data Officer. That team does three things:

• Assesses new data tools and platforms before the organization adopts them.

• Develops platform governance standards with Data Engineering and the Data & Analytics Center of Excellence.

• Implements and manages the telemetry, observability, and enforcement tooling that measures and protects Lumen's data.

As the senior individual contributor delivery lead, this person turns governance tooling strategy into concrete implementation plans and owns their execution. They also manage two Senior Data Governance Architects. The Principal Data Governance Architect sets the architectural guardrails, and this role builds the implementation engine within them. The ideal candidate combines hands‑on depth in catalog, data quality, and access‑control tooling with the leadership to deliver across a complex, multi‑platform data estate.

• Governance Catalog Implementation: Lead the full implementation of the enterprise governance catalog (Informatica Cloud Data Governance & Catalog). This covers scanner configuration, taxonomy design, glossary seeding, and lineage mapping across legacy systems and modern platforms (for example, the enterprise data warehouse, Databricks, and Palantir Foundry), with consistency, auditability, and scalability as the goals.

• Implementation Patterns & Technical Leadership: Define the implementation patterns that the Senior Data Governance Architects apply to their platform clusters. Be their main point of technical escalation. Mentor and develop team members in governance engineering best practices.

• Observability & Data Quality Tooling: Own the rollout of observability tooling (Validio, Informatica Cloud Data Access Management, or equivalent). This includes designing the data quality rule framework, setting monitoring thresholds, and configuring alerts.

• Technology Assessment: Lead technical assessment work alongside the Director, Data Governance Technology. Build evaluation environments, run capability tests, and produce technical findings for new data tools and platforms.

• Identity & Access Integration: Coordinate SailPoint integration design with the Information Security Office. Write the identity‑to‑governance mapping specifications that the Senior Lead Data Governance Engineer implements.

• Phased Delivery Leadership: Act as primary delivery lead for the governance technology roadmap. The sequence runs Unity Catalog connectivity first, then catalog scanning and data characterization, then birthright identity and policy enforcement.

• Automation & Workflow Engineering: Design and build automated metadata ingestion, data quality rule deployment, and alert‑driven workflows that cut manual processing and make…