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Published inJun 2023
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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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Promoting data governance through data contracts

Data contracts are the perfect place to promote data governance. In this section, we’ll explore how you can use data contracts to improve the visibility of data governance, collect up-to-date categorization of data, and provide the tooling and guardrails the data generators need to handle their data effectively.

As mentioned in Chapter 2, Introducing Data Contracts, the contract definition can be extended to capture any metadata we need to ensure we’re handling our data in accordance with our standards. This could include the following:

  • Whether it is personal data.
  • What entity the data relates to (for example, is it about a customer, an order, or another entity?).
  • Who has access to the data, and when that access expires.
  • How the data is classified according to your organization’s policies (for example, is it confidential, secret, or public knowledge?).
  • How long we keep this data for (the...
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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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