Microsoft Purview · Unified Catalog Governance
Data Quality Steward
Manage data quality rules, scanning, insights, scheduling, monitoring, and alerts. Sub-role requiring Governance Domain Reader and Data Product Owner.
Scope: Data quality management within assigned domain and data products
Permissions
- Create and manage data quality rules
- Run data quality scanning jobs
- Browse all data quality insights and error records
- Configure data quality scheduling and automation
- Monitor data quality job execution
- Configure data quality thresholds and alerts
- Remediate data quality issues
- Export data quality reports
Common use cases
- Data quality engineers implementing quality rules for domain
- Domain teams ensuring data products meet quality standards
- Setting up automated data quality monitoring and alerts
- Responding to data quality degradation and incidents
- Implementing data quality SLAs and metrics
- Root cause analysis of data quality issues
Best practices
- Establish data quality rules before publishing data products
- Configure automated scanning on regular schedule
- Set quality thresholds aligned to business SLAs
- Configure alerts for quality degradation
- Document quality rules and business rationale
- Coordinate with data engineering on quality remediation
- Regular review of quality trends and patterns
- Use quality metrics in domain scorecards
Security considerations
- Can view detailed error records including data samples
- Quality scanning may impact source system performance
- Configure scanning during off-peak hours
- Quality reports may reveal sensitive data issues
- Coordinate with data owners before broad scanning