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Published inJun 2023
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ISBN-139781837635009
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Andrew Jones
Andrew Jones
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Andrew Jones

Andrew Jones is a principal engineer at GoCardless, one of Europe's leading Fintech's. He has over 15 years experience in the industry, with the first half primarily as a software engineer, before he moved into the data infrastructure and data engineering space. Joining GoCardless as its first data engineer, he led his team to build their data platform from scratch. After initially following a typical data architecture and getting frustrated with facing the same old challenges he'd faced for years, he started thinking there must be a better way, which led to him coining and defining the ideas around data contracts. Andrew is a regular speaker and writer, and he is passionate about helping organizations get maximum value from data.
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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...

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Published in: Jun 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837635009

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Andrew Jones

Andrew Jones is a principal engineer at GoCardless, one of Europe's leading Fintech's. He has over 15 years experience in the industry, with the first half primarily as a software engineer, before he moved into the data infrastructure and data engineering space. Joining GoCardless as its first data engineer, he led his team to build their data platform from scratch. After initially following a typical data architecture and getting frustrated with facing the same old challenges he'd faced for years, he started thinking there must be a better way, which led to him coining and defining the ideas around data contracts. Andrew is a regular speaker and writer, and he is passionate about helping organizations get maximum value from data.
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