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Data News — Week 23.42

Christophe Blefari

Rise of the data generalist: smaller teams, bigger impact — You don't need to convince me. Data contracts and schema enforcement with dbt — It comes with dbt Mesh and gives a lot of new metadata over your models to bring more software engineering practices to dbt development.

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Data Architect: Role Description, Skills, Certifications and When to Hire

AltexSoft

Metadata management skills Metadata management unlocks the value of a company’s data and it’s a data architect’s task to ensure metadata principles are applicable to all data a business has. But first, all candidates must be accredited by Arcitura as Big Data professionals.

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Data Stewards Have The Worst Seat At The Table

Monte Carlo

From the start, the data steward role was heavily intertwined with data governance and metadata management. However, stewards also took on leadership across initiatives designed to tame the “5 v’s” of big data: volume, value, variety, velocity, and veracity. Encouraging data teams to follow procedure is, too.