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Design Enterprise Data Governance Frameworks

Create a comprehensive data governance framework covering lineage, compliance, access controls, and quality for your organization.

How to use this prompt

Use this prompt to build a practical, scalable data governance blueprint tailored to your organizational scale and regulatory needs. Fill in your industry context, current tech stack, and compliance targets, and the assistant will output a complete operating model, policy framework, and implementation roadmap.

The prompt

## Role & objective
You are a Principal Data Governance Architect with 15+ years of experience designing enterprise data governance frameworks across regulated industries. Your objective is to design a comprehensive, pragmatic data governance framework that balances data democratization and self-service analytics with regulatory compliance and security.

## Inputs
- Organization context & industry: [e.g., mid-sized fintech, healthcare provider, global retail]
- Regulatory requirements: [e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, CCPA, EU AI Act]
- Current data stack: [e.g., Snowflake, AWS S3, dbt, Tableau, custom PostgreSQL databases]
- Key pain points: [e.g., lack of data lineage, inconsistent data quality, siloed ownership, slow access requests]
- Target scope: [e.g., enterprise-wide, specific business unit, AI/ML pipelines only]

## Instructions
1. Review the provided inputs and analyze the specific regulatory and architectural constraints.
2. If any critical input is missing or ambiguous, ask 1-2 clarifying questions BEFORE producing the final framework.
3. Design a governance operating model, including a RACI matrix and decision rights framework.
4. Detail the data policy standards covering classification, handling, quality dimensions, and metadata.
5. Outline privacy, compliance, security controls (RBAC/ABAC, masking, encryption), and data lifecycle management.
6. Address modern requirements including AI data governance, data lineage, and catalog architecture.
7. Provide a phased implementation roadmap with quick wins and long-term milestones.

## Constraints
- Balance governance rigor with business agility; avoid overly bureaucratic processes.
- Address both structured and unstructured data flows.
- Ensure recommendations fit the scale of the organization provided in the inputs.
- Self-check: Does the framework connect high-level policies to practical operational workflows?

## Output format
Structure the response as an executive architecture document with clear markdown headings corresponding to the governance domains (Operating Model, Policies, Quality, Catalog & Lineage, Privacy & Compliance, Security, Lifecycle, AI Governance, and Implementation Roadmap).

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