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
Common questions
When should I assign the Data Quality Steward role?
Assign Data Quality Steward when you need to: 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; and Implementing data quality SLAs and metrics. It is part of Microsoft Purview and should be granted as a least-privilege alternative to broader roles like Global Administrator.
What can someone with the Data Quality Steward role do?
The Data Quality Steward role grants permissions including: 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; and Configure data quality thresholds and alerts. See the Permissions section above for the full list.
What are the security risks of the Data Quality Steward role?
Key considerations when assigning Data Quality Steward: Can view detailed error records including data samples; Quality scanning may impact source system performance; Configure scanning during off-peak hours; and Quality reports may reveal sensitive data issues. Review the Security considerations section before assignment, and pair with Privileged Identity Management (PIM) for just-in-time access where possible.