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Data Governance for High-Stakes Digital Platforms in Dubai

Data Governance for High-Stakes Digital Platforms in Dubai

Stralya helps you structure, secure and govern your data so your cloud-native platforms remain compliant, reliable and ready to scale. We design data governance as a practical, operational framework—not a binder of unused policies.

Service scope

What our Data Governance service includes

Stralya’s Data Governance service is structured to give you clarity, control and confidence over how data is created, stored, accessed and used across your digital ecosystem. We adapt the depth and breadth of each component to your organisation’s maturity, risk profile and growth plans.

Core components of our Data Governance delivery

Data governance operating model (roles, RACI, cadence, decision rights)

Business glossary and KPI catalogue (definitions, owners, calculation rules)

Data governance operating model (roles, RACI, cadence, decision rights)

Data quality framework (dimensions, thresholds, rule library)

Quality dashboards and scorecards (by domain, source, and CDE)

Data issue management workflow (triage, root cause, remediation, prevention)

Access and usage principles (least privilege, approvals, audit trails)

Optional add-ons and extensions

Data catalog and lineage setup (tool selection, configuration, adoption)

Master data strategy (golden records, matching rules, deduplication)

Data contracts for APIs and event streams to prevent breaking changes

Privacy-by-design support (data classification, retention, masking patterns)

Executive reporting stabilisation (single source of truth for core KPIs)

Every organisation is at a different stage in its data journey. We design our Data Governance engagements to be realistic and achievable, starting with what will create the most immediate value and risk reduction. From there, we can progressively extend and deepen the framework as your platforms and teams evolve.

Key outcomes of working with Stralya on Data Governance

Reliable, decision-ready data

Consistent definitions, quality rules and ownership mean your leadership can trust the numbers powering strategic and operational decisions across your digital channels.

Reduced operational and compliance risk

Clear access policies, lifecycle rules and controls reduce the likelihood of data leaks, misuse, inconsistent reporting and audit issues—critical in a regulated, high-visibility market like Dubai.

Data that scales with your growth

By embedding governance into your cloud-native architecture and delivery pipelines, you avoid data chaos as you add new products, regions or teams.

More efficient engineering and product teams

With clear contracts, ownership and documentation, teams spend less time resolving data conflicts and more time delivering features and improvements.

How we work

A structured, fixed-price approach to Data Governance

Data governance can feel abstract. Our role is to make it concrete, scoped and executable. Stralya works with a fixed-price, project-first approach: we agree on clear outcomes, then design and implement the governance model that will sustain them across your cloud-native platforms.

We map your critical systems, data flows and stakeholders across your web applications and cloud infrastructure. We identify pain points: inconsistent data, unclear ownership, security gaps, compliance risks and reporting challenges.

Together with your leadership (CTO, CIO, Data Owners), we define the governance objectives: risk reduction, auditability, data quality, access control, or support for analytics and AI. We then agree on a realistic, fixed scope and timeline.

We design a tailored framework including data domains, ownership model, data catalog approach, quality rules, access policies, retention rules and escalation paths. Everything is aligned with your cloud-native stack and existing tools.

We work with your engineering and security teams to embed governance into your applications and infrastructure: roles and permissions, data contracts, validation rules, logging, monitoring and documentation integrated into your delivery workflows.

We train your teams, refine the framework based on real usage and set up a clear operating model for ongoing governance. When needed, we stay as a long-term partner through SLAs or selective staff augmentation.

Find Commonly Asked Questions

Our service typically includes a current-state assessment, definition of governance objectives, design of the governance framework (ownership, policies, quality rules, access model), technical integration into your cloud-native stack, and enablement of your teams. Depending on your needs, we can also support tooling selection for cataloguing, lineage and monitoring.

It is highly relevant for both. Startups and scale-ups in Dubai often grow quickly and accumulate technical and data debt. A lightweight but solid governance model prevents chaos later—especially when preparing for funding, audits or regional expansion. For larger organisations, governance is essential to reduce risk, align teams and support transformation programmes.

Yes. Stralya specialises in cloud-native web development on AWS, Azure and GCP. We design governance that fits your actual stack: managed databases, data lakes, event streams, APIs and microservices. We are vendor-agnostic regarding cataloguing, lineage or monitoring tools and help you choose what best fits your context.

Yes. Many of our projects have a “rescue” component. We start by stabilising what is critical: clarifying ownership, securing sensitive data, fixing the most harmful inconsistencies and risks. Then we progressively structure a governance model that your teams can realistically adopt and maintain.

We work primarily on a fixed-price basis. After an initial discovery phase, we define a clear scope, deliverables and timeline, then provide a fixed proposal. For ongoing support or specific expertise, we can complement this with selective, senior-only staff augmentation.

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