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Agree a data contract with source and consumer owners and assess the impact of upstream changes
Source system owners and data consumers receive an agreed data contract (schema, meaning, quality expectations, delivery service level and change notice) and, for each proposed upstream schema or definition change, an impact assessment on downstream pipelines, models and reports with a migration plan.
5jobs do it
3jobs help with it
59skills it needs
- Analytics Engineer
- Data Engineer
- Lead Analytics Engineer
- Lead Data Engineer
- HRIS Analyst
- Data Architect
- Data Product Manager
- Group Data Product Manager
Does itHelps with it
- Reading and tracing unfamiliar code
- Reviewing human- and AI-generated code changes for correctness and risk
- Sampling and reviewing a team's work against standards
- Diagnosing misleading data visualisations
- Verifying reports and dashboards before and after release
- Verifying AI-assisted outputs against sources
- Disclosing AI contribution to professional work
- Testing competing explanations with discriminating evidence
- Independently checking analytical conclusions and claims
- Escalating unresolved risks with evidence and clear ownership
- Giving specific developmental feedback on data and AI work
- Judging the materiality of defects and deficiencies for the intended use
- Setting and reviewing reliability objectives and error budgets for data and AI services
- Establishing and declaring data grain
- Reading business metrics
- Governing shared data definitions
- Writing data quality rules
- Reconciling conflicting reports
- Tracing data lineage upstream and downstream
- Calculating and verifying KPIs against their specification
- Specifying decision-useful reports
- Specifying BI measure semantics: additivity, aggregation and time
- Designing semantic models for governed analytics
- Identifying keys and testing referential integrity
- Designing dimensional models with explicit grain
- Designing and versioning data contracts for consumers
- Assigning and operating data ownership and stewardship
- Mapping stakeholders' decisions, constraints and needs
- Writing maintainable code for analytical and data work
- Gating releases on evidence with rollback ready
- Designing automated pipelines and processes that fail safely and recover
- Standardising and cleaning data under agreed rules
- Monitoring data quality and freshness in production
- Building decision-focused reports and dashboards
- Designing relational schemas: keys, constraints and normalisation
- Testing changes to data services and business systems for business meaning and downstream impact
- Designing and validating batch and streaming ingestion
- Engineering production data transformations
- Recovering data pipelines safely
- Building data protection by design into data products and pipelines
- Diagnosing data quality exceptions
- Validating records by matching, recomputation and end-to-end tracing
- Repairing data defects reversibly under owner authority
- Investigating anomalies
- Diagnosing operational handoffs and flow
- Designing efficient and reproducible investigations
- Influencing change without formal authority
- Working through stakeholder conflict over evidence and responsibility
- Facilitating evidence-led retrospectives and corrective actions
- Recognising statutory incident reporting duties and deadlines
- Designing and validating digital analytics event measurement
- Assessing data source credibility and fitness for a question
- Profiling data
- Diagnosing duplicate records
- Applying data classification and handling rules
- Assessing lawful basis, purpose compatibility and minimisation for data reuse
- Designing enforceable data governance policies
- Managing master data identities and exceptions
- Investigating procurement spend leakage and duplicate commitments
Paths that teach the skills it needs
Skill Path
Data Preparation: Cleaning, Repair and Reconciliation
Check whether a table is fit for the job, then clean, repair and reconcile it with the evidence to back it.
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- Practice data
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Skill Path
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Judge whether a business claim from a table, KPI, chart or dashboard really holds up.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Practice data
- Raket Parts
Tool Path
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