Data governance

Understanding Modern Data Architecture

Miller Trujillo

Senior Software Engineer

What is data governance?

People, Processes, and Tools

  • Know our data
    • What data do we have?
    • Quality
    • Origin
  • Secure our data
    • Access management
    • Encryption
  • Compliance & regulations
1 https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/data-governance-the/9781492063483/
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The people

Category Roles Responsibilities
Governor/Approver Data owner/steward Implement data governance strategy, classify data and, manage the data
User Data analyst/scientist Consume data to derive insights and make decisions
Ancillary/Additional C-executive, legal Support the overall data governance strategy
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The processes

  • Know our data
  • Classification
  • Data lineage - origin
  • Data quality
    • What is good and bad data?
    • What to do with bad data?
  • Governors normally own these processes
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The tools

Enterprise dictionary: Classes and information types

GCP and AWS data catalogs

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Understanding Modern Data Architecture

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