Product owner × owner
Product priority and domain purpose in one person — allowed, but conflict-prone. Keep decision rights explicit anyway.
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Data Owner
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Data Owner
Business-accountable for purpose, access rules, and approvals in the domain. Sets decision rights without working every ticket — steward and custodian deliver operational and technical execution.
Decision boundaries
Owns
- Purpose binding for the domain or data product
- Access rules and approvals (accountable)
- Escalation decisions when conflicts arise
- Sponsor evidence for critical domains
Does not
- Work every catalog entry or DQ ticket (steward)
- Prioritize the product backlog (product owner)
- Enforce rights technically (custodian)
- Design grain and mart interfaces (architect)
Typical tasks
- Set purpose and use policy Domain charter / policy
- Approve or reject access requests Approval cadence
- Retune RACI with steward and custodian Governance cadence
- Accountably approve KPI changes Metric change board
- Decide PII / risk approvals Privacy / access review
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Recommended learning paths
- Governance foundations Understand decision rights and the ownership model path
- Access & security ops Steer access and masking as owner path
- Find, do not expose Keep work findable without opening records path
- Trusted metrics KPI accountability and change process path
- Close the gaps Surface ownership gaps and capacity path
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Glossary
Short definition for shared language — not the starting point for this role.