Building a Scalable and Sustainable Global Data Governance Program

Company Overview/Framing the Problem: 

• A profitable and global organization, with growth driven organically and through acquisition
  • Geographic and organizational silos
  • HIPAA, GDPR, and FDA-controlled data
  • Development of a Global Data Platform
• Data Governance History 
  • MDM starts and stops
  • Alation and stewardship initiative
  •  InfoSec audit and data governance council
• Thinking Globally, Acting Locally 
• Policies and standards
  • Governance Council and Working Groups 
  • Centrally coordinated, business-led operating model
  • Building standard, repeatable, measurable, and auditable processes
• Global Data Platform 
  • Team structure
  • Integrating into existing processes (non-invasive DG)
  • Tools and technologies (Snowflake, Alation, dbt, access mgmt)
• Lessons Learned 
  • Balance - simplicity vs comprehensive coverage
  • Adoption curve - awareness, interest, ability, expertise
  • Implementation - focusing on the right things

Speaker: Stephen Kennedy

Stephen Kennedy is currently the Senior Manager of Data Governance at ResMed. In that capacity, he is partnering with the business, IT, Privacy, and InfoSec on building a global data governance program for a leading medical equipment manufacturing company. With his interest in data, project, and process management, he has had the opportunity to work on data management projects for companies such as Booz Allen Hamilton, National Geographic, Capital One, and ResMed.