- Project team roles
- Supporting roles
- Other stakeholders
Project team roles
- Business owner — Has intimate knowledge of the business problems to solve and understands what data is required to solve them. Helps define and design data-driven solutions.
- CDF system administrator — Sets up and manages CDF and data pipelines. Is responsible for access and data management.
- Solution builder — Builds data-driven solutions. Typically, these are data scientists, data analysts, data engineers, or subject matter experts.
Supporting roles
- Executive sponsor — Champions the project and sets the business vision for the implementation. Articulates the value, communicates strategy and encourages adoption.
- System integrator — Sets up live connections between CDF and source systems during the implementation. Works closely with infrastructure engineers and source system administrators.
Other stakeholders
- Solution architect — Uses technical expertise to integrate and optimize the use of CDF across the organization, tailoring solutions to meet developer and business needs
- Infrastructure engineer — Typically in charge of implementing, managing, and monitoring the organization’s cloud and on-premises environments and solutions. Responsible for providing (if needed) on-prem infrastructure access and connectivity.
- Security engineer — Secures systems and protects data. Responsible for the design and implementation of digital security controls, managing access, and protecting your data in cloud networks and hybrid environments.
- Source system administrator — Grants access to source systems, helps understand their data models, and how to connect and extract data from them.
- Subject matter expert (SME) — Functional expert that supports implementation team.
- Data scientist — Analytical professional who interpretes large amounts of data to help drive decision-making.
- Information modeler — Ensures that the organization’s data is organized correctly and optimized to achieve critical objectives.