Data governance consulting establishes policies, processes, and tools to make data trustworthy, compliant, and accessible across your organization.
Service overview
We implement data governance frameworks for regulated sectors like pension funds and secure data environments, ensuring data quality, security, and lineage while enabling analytics and AI. Our approach breaks silos, enforces Solvency II compliance, and operationalizes governance via tools like Unity Catalog or Purview.
Core offerings
Governance strategy and framework
- Data governance maturity assessment and operating model design (centralized, federated, or hybrid).
- Define data domains, ownership (stewards, owners), and decision rights.
- Policies for quality, security, lifecycle, and usage aligned to regs (GDPR, Solvency II, DORA, NIST, ISO, NIS2 ).
- Data Governance Protection Baseline
Catalog and metadata management
- Deploy enterprise data catalogs with business glossary, lineage, and impact analysis.
- Automated tagging for PII, sensitivity, retention, and compliance labels.
- Integration across platforms (Databricks Unity Catalog, Azure Purview, Collibra).
Data quality and stewardship
- Profiling, rules, and monitoring embedded in pipelines (expectations, alerts).
- Data quality dashboards and remediation workflows.
- Steward training and certification program.
Access control and security
- Fine-grained permissions (row/column masking, dynamic views).
- Audit trails and anomaly detection for data access.
- Vendor and third-party data risk assessments.
Compliance and reporting
- Mapping to standards (ISO 8000, DAMA-DMBOK) with audit-ready artifacts.
- Automated reporting for data trustees and regulators.
- Change management for governance evolution.
Engagement model
| Phase | Duration | Key deliverables |
|---|---|---|
| Assessment | 2 weeks | Maturity scorecard, gap analysis, RACI matrix |
| Design | 3 weeks | Framework docs, policy templates, catalog blueprint |
| Implementation | 4-8 weeks | Configured tools, quality rules, initial rollout |
| Adoption | 2-4 weeks | Training, dashboards, governance CoE setup |