Summary
The previous chapters focused on the role of data engineers, data scientists, business analysts, and DevOps/MLOps personas. This chapter focused on the admin persona who plays a pivotal role in an organization’s data journey by enabling the infrastructure, onboarding users, and providing data governance and security constructs so that self-service can be fully and safely democratized. We looked into various tasks, such as COE duties and responsibilities and data migration efforts, among others, which require admins to do a lot of the heavy lifting. Consolidating data into a common, open format such as Parquet with a transactional protocol such as Delta helps in use cases involving data sharing and migrations. It is important to keep in mind that technology and business users need to plan an enterprise’s data initiatives together to make sure that the insights generated are relevant and useful for the enterprise.
