The data warehouse manager s job is potentially huge, offering many opportunities and just as many risks. Furthermore, the data warehouse manager is expected to interpret and deliver that asset to the rest of the organization in a way that makes it most useful.
All eyes are on the data warehouse manager.
In spite of all this visibility, many newly appointed data warehouse managers are simply given their titles without a clear job definition or a clear sense of what is and is not their responsibility. As an industry, we have been groping for a definition of the data warehouse manager position. Perhaps this was appropriate in past years because we needed to define the job. We needed time to get some accumulated experience. We needed to test the boundaries of what being a data warehouse manager means.