Catalog
Discovery, search & glossaries
Alation
A Snowflake-native core, an open ecosystem around it
Governance is embedded where the data lives. The platform team builds the capabilities; domains implement them on their data products — build vs. buy, standardized.
The core · Snowflake-native
One metadata flow, embedded at the source
Collect once
Snowflake
Critical & technical metadata captured as tags at the source.
Propagate
dbt
Metadata propagated downstream across the medallion layers.
Consume
Alation
Surfaced to business users for discovery, search, and trust.
Goal: data contracts with upstream SORs — collect critical metadata once, propagate automatically, consume with confidence.
The open ecosystem around it
Explore the Toolkit · 12 toolsQuality
DMF checks & certification
Snowflake DMF
Compliance
SOX · PII · retention (DRDC)
Securiti.AI
AI
Semantic layer & agents
MCP · POC
Pipeline
Medallion lanes & propagation
dbt
Concrete specifics in scope
Verbatim acronyms, file references, and lane names from the EDPM Track 1 working materials.
BR / CL
Bronze / Curated Layer — the Snowflake medallion lanes
SS → BR / CL
Source System → Bronze → Curated/Gold flow
ESP
System of record for SOX tags, embedded into Snowflake
FinBO
Finance Business Owner data products / tables
CETO Dashboard
First step toward continuous certification — tracks critical-metadata completion
CDE
Critical Data Elements — DMF targets
DRDC
Data Retention & Destruction Compliance — table-level retention schedules
Bookingspolicy.sql
Pending DE validation for row-access-policy testing
securityMesh.concept.docx
Access-control solution design by Terence
