Lumen is looking for a Principal Innovation Enterprise Architect to validate, disqualify, and prove solution fit across complex enterprise environments, ensuring that proposed solutions are visionary, viable, and precisely integrated into customer architectures. This role will bridge the gap between customers and product management, ensuring beta programs deliver value.
Requirements
- 10+ years in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or technical strategy roles.
- Deep experience across cloud, networking, data center, and emerging technologies (e.g., Gen AI).
- Proven ability to assess technical fit and disqualify misaligned opportunities early.
- Strong consultative skills and ability to influence senior technical stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills—able to translate between business value and technical feasibility.
- Experience in innovation programs, beta programs, or early-stage product incubation.
- Familiarity with design thinking, agile delivery, and hypothesis-driven development.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate and qualify/disqualify opportunities based on architectural fit, feasibility, and long-term viability.
- Serve as the technical conscience of the pursuit—ensuring that proposed solutions are grounded in reality and aligned with customer environments.
- Build trusted relationships with senior technologists (e.g., CTOs, enterprise architects) to understand their architecture, constraints, and strategic direction.
- Translate high-level “why” into actionable “how” for internal teams, ensuring adoption rather than organ rejection.
- Collaborate with Solution Architects, Product Managers, and Innovation Principals to shape offerings that are both desirable and deployable.
- Provide architectural leadership across multi-cloud, networking, data center, and Gen AI domains.
- Influence product roadmaps by surfacing patterns, blockers, and opportunities observed in the field.
Other
- This is a Hybrid position with expectations of being in the Lumen office located at 10401NE 8th Street Bellevue Washington 98004 an estimated 2 to 3 times weekly.
- Ability to influence both up and down the stack—from C-level technologists to implementation teams.
- Work hand in glove with our customer and delivery team, ensuring that each beta program delivers value for our customers and Lumen.
- Background screen, which may include checks for criminal records and/or motor vehicle reports and/or drug screening, depending on the position requirements.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
