Introduction to Data Stewart Workflow
enables you to translate from technical to business definitions and give appropriate context to the data. You ensure the accuracy, completeness, privacy, and security of operational data according to the data governance controls and processes.
To help make sense of the data steward's role, we'll describe it more fully and detail the data steward's typical tasks and workflow. You are a data steward if:
- You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy, completeness, privacy, and security of operational data.
- You ensure that the right data is available to the right people in the organization.
- You understand the type of data that the business needs, and can translate from technical to business definitions, giving context to the data.
You may be fulfilling the data steward role even if "Data Steward" is not part of your job title. Instead, your position might be one of these or a related title:
- Customer Data Administrator
- Marketing Data Lead
- Enterprise Data Architect
- Information Technology Manager
- System Administrator
- Technical Program Manager
- Business Manager
- Database Administrator
- Data Engineer
- Data Analyst
- Data Evangelist
As a data steward, you understand the business domain and the interaction of business processes with analytics. This understanding enables you to translate from technical to business definitions and give appropriate context to the data. You ensure that there are documented procedures and guidelines for data access and use. Then you provide feedback and work with others, as needed, to plan and execute an enterprise-wide data governance, control and compliance policy.
During the initial deployment, data stewards and content authors should create certified data sources and relevant workbooks in the production environment for content consumers to use at launch. After launch, data stewards work with server/site administrators to monitor data to determine usage and changes needed. The maintenance needed will lead to iterations on the workflow tasks.
Primarily, a data steward is responsible for ensuring the accuracy, completeness, privacy, and security of operational data. A data steward works with other roles to complete these tasks according to the governance model and other defined processes and standards.
