21.12 Enterprise Operating Architecture
Technology architecture and operating architecture must match.
Platform operating model
Central platform team
Owns:
- tenant administration
- standards
- capacity
- connectivity patterns
- security baseline
- lifecycle mechanisms
- observability
Domain teams
Own:
- domain data products
- semantic definitions
- quality
- domain-specific transformations
- consumer contracts
Business owners
Own:
- business meaning
- priority
- acceptance criteria
- value realization
Federated governance
A scalable model is:
Central standards + federated domain ownership
Centralize what must be consistent. Federate what requires business context.
Service management
For each critical capability define:
- service owner
- technical owner
- data owner
- support tier
- SLO
- incident path
- recovery procedure
Architecture maturity
- project-based
- platform-based
- domain-based
- product-based
- enterprise data ecosystem
The objective is not maturity for its own sake. It is predictable business value at scale.