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What is a data architect? Skills, salaries, and how to become a data framework master

CIO Business Intelligence

Data architect role Data architects are senior visionaries who translate business requirements into technology requirements and define data standards and principles, often in support of data or digital transformations. Data architect vs. data engineer The data architect and data engineer roles are closely related.

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Use Apache Iceberg in your data lake with Amazon S3, AWS Glue, and Snowflake

AWS Big Data

They understand that a one-size-fits-all approach no longer works, and recognize the value in adopting scalable, flexible tools and open data formats to support interoperability in a modern data architecture to accelerate the delivery of new solutions.

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The Top Three Entangled Trends in Data Architectures: Data Mesh, Data Fabric, and Hybrid Architectures

Cloudera

Each of these trends claim to be complete models for their data architectures to solve the “everything everywhere all at once” problem. Data teams are confused as to whether they should get on the bandwagon of just one of these trends or pick a combination. First, we describe how data mesh and data fabric could be related.

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How Cargotec uses metadata replication to enable cross-account data sharing

AWS Big Data

Cargotec captures terabytes of IoT telemetry data from their machinery operated by numerous customers across the globe. This data needs to be ingested into a data lake, transformed, and made available for analytics, machine learning (ML), and visualization. The target accounts read data from the source account S3 buckets.

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The Future of Data Lineage and the Role of Metadata

Alation

The complex challenge here is to have the lineage be intelligently updated as the data landscape and processing dynamically bubbles and changes daily across an enterprise. Active metadata will play a critical role in automating such updates as they arise. This approach ensures lineage is easy to visualize. Why Focus on Lineage?

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5 Ways Data Modeling Is Critical to Data Governance

erwin

While it’s always been the best way to understand complex data sources and automate design standards and integrity rules, the role of data modeling continues to expand as the fulcrum of collaboration between data generators, stewards and consumers. So here’s why data modeling is so critical to data governance.

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How Huron built an Amazon QuickSight Asset Catalogue with AWS CDK Based Deployment Pipeline

AWS Big Data

Having an accurate and up-to-date inventory of all technical assets helps an organization ensure it can keep track of all its resources with metadata information such as their assigned oners, last updated date, used by whom, how frequently and more. This is a guest blog post co-written with Corey Johnson from Huron.