Assigning responsibility for data governance
To implement effective data governance in our organization, we need to be clear on the roles and responsibilities involved. In this section, we’ll define those roles and responsibilities and how they work together.
We will cover this in the following subsections:
- Responsibilities of the data generators
- Introducing a data architecture council
- Working together to implement federated data governance
Responsibilities of the data generators
By using a data contracts-backed architecture, we promote a more decentralized operating model. We give data generators the autonomy and responsibility to own and manage their data, supported by the right self-served tooling and guardrails.
Consequently, we need to rethink our approach to data governance. We don’t want to create a central team to try to take control of the data. These teams become a bottleneck, slowing down access to and use of data. They also...
