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Lowe’s organizational structure reflects their domain-driven approach, with dedicated teams for merchandising, pricing, marketing, and finance, each owning their respective datasets. These domains are supported by a centralized, horizontal platform team responsible for core infrastructure—like ingestion pipelines, data governance, and storage.
Their architecture includes a multi-layered data pipeline:
Source Systems: Continuously evolving transactional platforms.
Data Ingestion Layer: Using open-source tools, data is extracted, encrypted, and loaded into the data lake.
Silver Layer: Cleansed, standardized datasets prepared by domain teams.
Gold Layer: Curated, business-ready metrics and datasets used for reporting and analytics.