AstraZeneca: Building a collaborative culture between data leaders and business teams
How data projects are put into production at AstraZeneca?
Successful projects require discussion, business expertise, tech knowledge, and agility. AstraZeneca achieved this by building a collaborative culture between data leaders and business teams.
“Data without trust is useless. Data Governance is critical to knowing that we can trust our data and ensuring that the data is well understood, well looked after, and only accessible to the right people.”
It was important to ensure clear control over data access. “Defining data owners and who can access what data for what kind of processes is critical to compliance with GDPR and making sure we are managing our PII data properly,”.
Business owners also must manage the quality of their data through data stewards. With Talend Data Quality and Talend Data Stewardship, users can decide how to structure and format the data so they can apply data quality rules and bring transparency to where the data quality issues are.
Andre de Jong, Business Intelligence Engineer, explains, “We do not want to develop the same pipeline across different functions repeatedly. Talend has enabled us to standardize our data movement and transformation. Now we create generic Talend jobs that can extract data from any type of data source, allowing us to deploy those jobs in Docker containers and deploy them on a serverless infrastructure such as AWS Fargate, making them ultimately scalable across business units.”