J.P. Morgan’s data mesh architecture aligns its data technology solutions to the data product strategy. By providing a blueprint for instantiating data lakes that implements the mesh architecture in a standardized way using a defined set of cloud services, the team enables data sharing across the enterprise while giving data owners the control and visibility they need to manage their data effectively.
In the past, teams producing firm-wide reports extracted and joined data from multiple systems in multiple data domains to produce reports. Through the data mesh architecture, the data product owners for those data domains make their data available in lakes. The enterprise data catalog allows reporting teams to find and request the lake-based data to be made available in their reporting application. The mesh catalog allows auditing the data flows from the lakes to the reporting application, so it’s clear where the data in the reports originates.