Data Architect course

This course is for the person shaping how CluedIn behaves, not just what it displays. The Data Architect defines the semantic model, mapping quality, identifiers, relations, rules, automation surfaces, and downstream contracts that make stewardship effective at scale.

The structure deliberately mirrors the stronger “Getting started” and reference sections in the documentation, but it expands them into a curriculum. Instead of treating each page as a standalone feature article, this course connects them into one architectural journey through the instance.

Course outcomes

By the end of this course, a learner should be able to:

  • design a clean business-domain and vocabulary model
  • review mappings and identifiers with an eye toward merge quality and survivorship behavior
  • create relations, hierarchies, and rules that behave predictably in production
  • understand when to use clean projects, enrichers, AI agents, glossary, tag monitoring, and streams
  • promote changes through environments with discipline and explain the expected downstream impact

This course fits Data Architects, solution architects, platform owners, implementation consultants, and advanced administrators.

Suggested duration

  • Guided first pass: 3 to 4 half-days
  • Hands-on design and validation: 2 to 3 weeks across a real implementation cycle

Module sequence

  1. Course purpose, environments, and architecture responsibilities
  2. Platform model: business domains, vocabularies, and golden records
  3. Ingestion design and mapping strategy
  4. Identifiers, review mapping, and relation design
  5. Search, record anatomy, history, and diagnostic workflows
  6. Rules, clean projects, and processing logic
  7. Deduplication, glossary, and stewardship enablement
  8. Enrichers, AI agents, and automation design
  9. Governance patterns with tags, vocabulary, and quality signals
  10. Streams, export targets, and downstream contracts
  11. Release discipline across dev, test, and production
  12. Capstone architecture review checklist

What this course is not

This course is not a complete administration manual and it is not a substitute for implementation standards. It is a practical curriculum for learning how the documented CluedIn features fit together into an operating architecture.

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