Data Mesh Manager

Domains & Teams

Overview

Domains and Teams are fundamental organizational units in the Data Mesh Manager that help structure and manage ownership, access, and governance. They form a hierarchical structure where Domains can contain Teams or subdomains.

A team is the smallest unit of ownership in the Data Mesh Manager. Resources (data products, data contracts, definitions, ...) are owned by domains and teams.

A team contains members and is responsible for managing their resources.

Create a Domain or Team

Only Organization Owners can create Domains and Teams. Team Owners can create subdomains and teams within their team.

You can specify a logo for a domain or team.

Team Types

While technically all domains and teams are represented by the technical entity Team, we distinguish between different types of teams to clarify their roles and responsibilities.

Domain

  • Represents a high-level business unit or data domain
  • Can contain subdomains and teams
  • Used to organize and structure data ownership

Team

  • A group of people working together on a specific data product.

Platform Team

  • A special team that manages the data platform infrastructure

Enabling Team

  • A team that collaborates with other teams and helps them to build well-architected data products

Governance Group

  • A specialized team that focuses on data governance and compliance
  • The governance group owns Global Policies

Team Members

A team (or domain) can have team members with different roles and permissions.

To add a team member, you need to be an owner of the team or domain (or have the TEAM_MEMBER_ADD permission). For that, a user must be a member of the current organization. Learn more, how to set up SCIM to automatically add users to the organization.

A team member has a team role with attached permissions. More information about roles can be found in the Roles section.