Roles
Data governance requires a team effort. The following roles help lead data governance at York University:
Data Trustees, Data Stewards, and Data Custodians receive onboarding facilitated by the Data Governance team, including an overview of York's data governance, sponsored projects, and their roles & responsibilities.
Hierarchy
The following diagram illustrates the relationship between Data Trustees, Data Stewards, and Data Custodians:
![The Chief Data Officer is a senior management level executive that's responsible for implementing the enterprise-wide data strategy, governance and management and accountable for data quality, security and compliance.
The Data Trustee is a senior management level executive that's accountable for the data in one or more domains.
Data Trustees have significant responsibility over the central unit creating and managing the authoritative source of data.
The Data Steward is a senior / mid level manager that's accountable for the data in one or more sub-domains.
Data Stewards are typically SMEs of data in their sub-domains.
The Business Application Owner is a senior / mid level manager responsible for articulating business needs.
The Data Custodian (also called the "Application IT Owner") is an IT professional responsible for technical environments and database structures.](https://www.yorku.ca/oipa/wp-content/uploads/sites/524/2021/12/Common-Data-Governance-Hierarchy-1024x411.png)