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Principal Architect

Lumen Technologies
$ - $ yearly
United States
Jul 23, 2025

About Lumen

Lumen connects the world. We are igniting business growth by connecting people, data and applications - quickly, securely, and effortlessly. Together, we are building a culture and company from the people up - committed to teamwork, trust and transparency. People power progress.

We're looking for top-tier talent and offer the flexibility you need to thrive and deliver lasting impact. Join us as we digitally connect the world and shape the future.

The Role

The Principal Architect for Lumen's Network as a Service implementation for infrastructure data is responsible for developing strategic goals and tactical solutions for network data related initiatives that will include digital twin, database design, device modeling, and service modeling.

This role involves collaborating with network operations, architects, and engineers, as well as software development and business stakeholders to create a comprehensive vision, standards for data management related to network infrastructure physical and logical properties, as well as data modeling and schema definitions for network devices and their data. Key responsibilities include creating methods to track network data quality, addressing network data integration or syncing issues, developing policies for network data governance, security, and compliance, as well as database design for storage of vast amounts of device configuration and state data.

Additionally, the Principal Architect is tasked with implementing tools and systems to support network data technology goals and ensuring that solutions adhere to data standards. This includes managing network data sources, movement, interfaces, and analytics to guarantee data quality, as well as documenting the network data architecture to maintain a current and accurate view of the network data landscape.

Location

This role is designated as a fully remote position within the United States.

The Main Responsibilities
  • Select and implement the appropriate tools, software, applications, and systems to support network data technology goals.
  • Oversee the mapping of network data sources, data movement, interfaces, and analytics, with the goal of ensuring data quality.
  • Work with project leads, consultants, and business unit leaders for all projects involving network data and analytics.
  • Create and maintain network data model and metadata policies and procedures for functional design.
  • Ensures solution designs address the network data standards and principles both from a functional and technical requirement perspective.
  • Address data-related problems regarding systems integration, compatibility, and multiple-platform integration.
  • Breaks down complex projects into simple systems that can be effectively built and maintained by less experienced engineers and architects.
  • Develop and implement key components as needed to create testing criteria to guarantee the fidelity and performance of network data architecture.
  • Document the project and programs for network data architecture and environment to maintain a current and accurate view of the larger network data picture, an environment that supports a single version of the truth and is scalable to support future analytical needs.
  • Identify and develop opportunities for network data reuse, migration, or retirement and platform upgrades.
  • Defines the standards to use for network data modeling and management of network data models ensures that network data models produced adhere to these standards.
  • Ensures that all documented artifacts and templates are captured in the appropriate document repository.
  • Partners directly with IT development teams and technical architects in the physical implementation of the logical network data models
  • Partners directly with data governance group, technical architects, and IT leads in the selection of metadata tools.
What We Look For in a Candidate
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field with 15+ years of relevant experience or
  • Master's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field with 12+ years of relevant experience.
  • Experience with OpenConfig or similarly related technologies for network data modeling
  • Experience with network tools and interacting with network devices with technologies such as Ansible, Python, gNMI/gRPC
  • Experience building network data models and/or network digital twins
  • Experience performance tuning large datasets based on distributed data
  • Experience building large data pipelines and/or web services
  • Experience in building integration with upstream and downstream systems with REST APIs
  • Experience in twinning and caching technologies and their implementations
  • Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and communication skills
  • Experience with network specific data and data sets is preferred
Compensation

This information reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. Individual pay is based on skills, experience and other relevant factors.

Location Based Pay Ranges

$149,084 - $198,779 in these states: AL AR AZ FL GA IA ID IN KS KY LA ME MO MS MT ND NE NM OH OK PA SC SD TN UT VT WI WV WY
$156,539 - $208,718 in these states: CO HI MI MN NC NH NV OR RI
$163,993 - $218,657 in these states: AK CA CT DC DE IL MA MD NJ NY TX VA WA

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Lumen offers a comprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing. We're able to answer any additional questions you may have about our bonus structure (short-term incentives, long-term incentives and/or sales compensation) as you move through the selection process.

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Requisition #: 339087

Background Screening

If you are selected for a position, there will be a background screen, which may include checks for criminal records and/or motor vehicle reports and/or drug screening, depending on the position requirements. For more information on these checks, please refer to the Post Offer section of our FAQ page. Job-related concerns identified during the background screening may disqualify you from the new position or your current role. Background results will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Equal Employment Opportunities

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of race, color, ancestry, citizenship, national origin, religion, veteran status, disability, genetic characteristic or information, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, family status, pregnancy, or other legally protected status (collectively, "protected statuses"). We do not tolerate unlawful discrimination in any employment decisions, including recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotion, benefits, discipline, termination, job assignments or training.

Disclaimer

The job responsibilities described above indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not intended to include a comprehensive inventory of all duties and responsibilities for this job. Job duties and responsibilities are subject to change based on evolving business needs and conditions.

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Application Deadline
07/29/2025
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