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Data governance

Enterprise data governance your auditors and AI teams can trust

We design governance operating models—not slide decks—so stewards, engineers, and legal share one vocabulary. From Unity Catalog and Snowflake tags to Purview and Dataplex, we wire policies into pipelines so enforcement is default, not heroic.

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What we deliver on this topic

Representative capabilities—scoped to your cloud, warehouse, and compliance posture.

How we de-risk delivery

Methodology, ownership, and runbooks your procurement and platform teams can inspect—across GCP, AWS, Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, Airflow, and legacy sources such as Oracle.

Catalogs, lineage, and business glossaries

Technical and business metadata converge in a catalog your analysts actually use: domains, ownership, PII flags, and certified datasets. Lineage is captured at job boundaries—Airflow DAGs, dbt models, Spark jobs on Databricks—so impact analysis is factual when schemas change.

We align glossary terms to warehouse columns and lake paths so AI assistants and BI tools surface consistent definitions, reducing shadow metrics across finance, growth, and product.

Policies, access, and segregation of duties

RBAC and ABAC patterns are mapped to real roles: who may promote datasets, who may export, and who may break glass for incidents. Segregation of duties is encoded in approval workflows—not email chains.

Retention, legal hold, and regional residency rules are attached as policy-as-code where supported, with exceptions logged for audit.

Data quality contracts and stewardship cadence

SLIs on freshness, completeness, and uniqueness are co-owned by stewards and platform teams. Breaches route to on-call with context—not generic alerts—so remediation is fast and documented.

We integrate with your existing ticketing and risk registers so governance work is visible to procurement and GRC stakeholders.

Governance on Snowflake, Databricks, and tri-cloud estates

Whether you standardize on Snowflake secure views, Databricks Unity Catalog, or hybrid lake patterns on S3 and ADLS, we avoid duplicate policy engines. One mental model: classify once, enforce everywhere connectors run.

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Data governance — FAQs

Answers for data leaders, platform owners, and procurement—without hand-wavy claims.

Ready to scope this workstream?

Share your current warehouse, orchestration stack, and success metrics—we'll propose a phased path with clear validation gates.