Principal Architect - Data Governance

Description

This senior role shapes and promotes the company's data governance and information protection approach across its core IT offerings, acting as a senior technical seller and trusted adviser.

You will present governance as a core IT and security function that supports safe collaboration, regulatory compliance, lower risk, and resilient operations.

You will work with Sales, the Overwatch Office, and the Security, Cloud, Modern Work, Hybrid Infrastructure, and Managed Services teams so governance solutions fit the platforms, sell well, and are explained clearly to customers.

The focus is pre-sales strategy, customer advisory, and technical alignment. The role does not cover analytics, BI, or data science.

Responsibilities

• Define the company's governance and information protection direction across core IT platforms, with clear customer value and use cases.
• Design governance architectures, patterns, and standards that connect with security, identity, cloud, and collaboration services, including Microsoft 365 and collaboration tools such as Teams, SharePoint, and Exchange, plus information protection and retention.
• Build governance links to the Overwatch Office and security services covering data risk, executive visibility, compliance readiness, and identity governance.
• Connect governance with cloud and hybrid infrastructure platforms, and with identity, access management, and Zero Trust architectures.
• Fit governance into existing practice portfolios and service offerings so sellers and architects can position and explain it easily.
• Spot gaps and near-term improvements on supported platforms, using customer demand, market trends, and sales feedback.
• Create reference architectures, patterns, and tooling standards that allow repeatable, scalable sales work.
• Make sure governance works alongside cloud, security, identity, and operations, without turning into separate, delivery-heavy projects.
• Act as a senior technical seller and adviser on governance topics in customer engagements.
• Work with Sales to shape deals, guide strategy, and explain governance value early in customer conversations.
• Equip Sales and architects with clear, outcome-focused governance messages, positioning guidance, and use-case stories.
• Lead or support executive discussions, workshops, and roadmap sessions on data governance and information protection.
• Build governance knowledge among solution and field architects so they can sell governance confidently, not only deliver it.
• Provide architectural oversight and escalation that supports deal outcomes and customer trust.
• Keep messages consistent across sales, delivery, and managed services, and keep them simple, practical, and commercial.
• Support the company's mission and values through your conduct.
• Keep working knowledge of relevant federal, state, and local laws, and of company policies, and act honestly, ethically, and professionally.
• Behave in line with customer service expectations.

Requirements

• Hold a bachelor's degree in a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Have 10+ years in enterprise IT or security architecture roles.
• Have deep experience in data governance, information protection, or compliance.
• Have a strong background in Microsoft platforms, security, identity, and hybrid cloud.
• Hold relevant industry certifications for your area of focus or practice.
• Hold the appropriate OEM-based certification for your area of focus or practice.
• Be comfortable leading technical conversations with customers and executive discussions.
• Link technical solutions to business outcomes, risk reduction, and operational value.
• Have strong technical and customer skills that support sales work.
• Manage several tasks at once in a fast-paced, matrixed setting.

Conditions

This role has no supervisory responsibilities.

The job involves constant sitting, talking, seeing, hearing, and use of hands and arms, frequent standing, moving, climbing steps, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling, and occasional lifting or moving of up to 10 pounds.

If a client requires medical testing, you must accept it as a condition of the assignment and either take the test or provide proof that you passed, for example a negative TB test.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on any basis prohibited by federal or state law.

Accommodations may be made for people with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Benefits

• See the US benefits summary for details of benefits for this role.