Data Governance rollout
Catalog, metadata, ownership, quality gates. A process that runs, not a document on the shelf.
Governance does not start by buying a catalog. It starts by answering “who owns customer_master”. Until a table has an owner, no governance programme survives: no one fixes quality, no one signs off access, no one flags PII.
I roll out governance so that in six months the team wants it, not just compliance. I start with ownership: every datalake slot and every mart gets a human name against it. Metadata and quality follow that living owner, not a vacuum. The catalog is the last layer, not the first.
I work in tandem with data engineering, security, and compliance. Processes are written to land inside the team's existing rhythm — standups, PR reviews, incidents — not to add another weekly meeting.
- For whom
- Banks where the regulator asks about lineage and PII. Fintechs that want to manage data before it becomes a problem.
- We solve
- The regulator asks for lineage; the team stitches it together over a week. Product teams don't know where to find the customer master. PII lives in 15 marts and no one knows exactly where. A catalog was purchased; no one uses it.
- Deliverables
- An ownership matrix, a metadata standard, quality gates in the pipelines, a populated catalog with owners, governance integrated into existing team processes, and a 12-month scale-up plan.
- Format
- Remote, on-site during team process rollout.
- Duration
- 3–6 months: pilot on one domain, then scale-up.