Sub-function
Data & Integration Platform
Owns pipeline run work end to end inside Information Technology. Runs 3 lines across 17 stations, drains the repeatable share into the DATA-ANALYTICS tower, and holds 3 human gates.
Estate rating
BBB
75 / 100
Pipeline recovery and backfill are automated and idempotent. Access to sensitive data always passes a named steward and expires.
Agents
8
Lines
3
Units / wk
12,883
Timetable vs actual
10.1h → 8.4h
Cost / unit
$5.56
was $19
Run-rate saving
$8.9M
annualized at this volume
The 8 agents running this sub-function
Grouped by what they are for, not by where they sit. The agent org is process-shaped.
Data Platform Orchestrator
Owns the data & integration platform lane end to end. Sequences the other agents, holds the timetable, and decides what surfaces to a human.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Data Platform when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Pipeline Health Agent
Watches data & integration platform continuously. Detects drift, quantifies it, and routes what matters without waiting for a reporting cycle.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Data Platform when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Data Quality Agent
Watches data & integration platform continuously. Detects drift, quantifies it, and routes what matters without waiting for a reporting cycle.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Data Platform when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Schema Evolution Agent
Executes the data & integration platform step it owns, posts its evidence, and hands the unit to the next stage.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Data Platform when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Lineage Agent
Runs the repeatable portion of data & integration platform inside the shared transaction spine at spine cost and spine controls.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates to Director, Data Platform when the unit falls outside the decision envelope or confidence drops below the floor.
Access Governance Agent
Holds the rules that bind every other agent in data & integration platform. Versions them, tests them against live decisions, and blocks work that breaches them.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates on any decision that would breach a live policy version, with the clause cited.
Platform Strategy Agent
Authors positions on data & integration platform. Frames the question, models the options, and writes a recommendation a human can ratify or reject.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates when two options sit inside the confidence band and the evidence cannot separate them.
Data & Integration Platform Challenger Agent
Adversarial reviewer for data & integration platform. Argues the opposite case on every position and flags where the evidence does not carry the claim.
ceiling A4 · escalates to Escalates when a ratified position is still running against a break condition it flagged.
Estate rating breakdown
Seven control dimensions. Judgment readiness runs against autonomy on purpose.
People
What the humans stopped doing, and what they do now.
Redeployed into agent supervision, calibration and coaching.
Lines running in this sub-function
Each line is a workflow. Click a line to walk it station by station.
Strategy positions this sub-function holds
An agent that only executes is a robot. These are the calls it made, the argument against each one, and what would prove it wrong.
Data & Integration Platform Operating Position
Rejectedv4Where should the autonomy ceiling for data & integration platform sit over the next four quarters, and what evidence would justify moving it?
Hold the ceiling at A4 for data & integration platform. Pipeline recovery and backfill are automated and idempotent. Access to sensitive data always passes a named steward and expires. Raise it only after two consecutive quarters where the override rate stays under five percent and every override has a written cause.
confidence
65%
The challenge — Data & Integration Platform Challenger Agent
Data & Integration Platform Challenger Agent argues the recommendation leans on 4 quarters of data from a period with no volume shock. The confidence band overlaps the alternative, and the position does not say what it would take to be wrong. Recorded as a dissent, not a block.
Break conditions
- ·Override rate rises above 15 percent for two consecutive months
- ·Cost per pipeline run stops falling while volume keeps rising
- ·A control failure in this lane reaches a customer or a regulator
Evidence gaps
- ·No external comparator on a like-for-like unit definition
- ·Exception cases under $39k are sampled, not fully measured
| Alternative considered | Cost | Risk | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hold the current position | $398k run rate | Known and priced. Cedes ground if comparators move faster. | live |
| Raise the ceiling one level now | $1597k to build controls | Override rate is 7 percent; raising the ceiling before that settles imports the error into production. | rejected on evidence |
| Move the exception tail to the spine | $531k transition | Loses local context. Rework risk on the cases that are hardest to recover. | under review |
Policy register
The rules the agents above are bound by. Version, owner, approver, and the agents each rule constrains.
| Ref | Rule | Scope | Owner agent | Approved by | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT8-POL-200 | Data & Integration Platform Decision Envelope Agents in this lane may act without a human when the pipeline run sits inside the stated value, risk and confidence envelope. Outside it, the unit holds at a gate with a named approver and a running clock. binds 2 agents · Global · EU | envelope | Access Governance Agent | Director, Data Platform | v5.9 | Active |
| IT8-POL-201 | Data & Integration Platform Evidence Standard Every autonomous decision writes inputs, the rule version applied, the model and prompt version, the output and a reversal path. An action with no evidence record is treated as a control failure, not a fast decision. binds 2 agents · EU · UK · US | evidence | Access Governance Agent | Director, Data Platform | v3.1 | Active |
| IT8-POL-202 | Data & Integration Platform Escalation Rule Escalation is mandatory when confidence falls below the floor, when two options sit inside the confidence band, or when a break condition on a ratified position fires. Director, Data Platform owns the response clock. binds 2 agents · Global | escalation | Access Governance Agent | Director, Data Platform | v4.6 | Active |
| IT8-POL-203 | Data & Integration Platform Autonomy Ceiling The ceiling for this lane is 87 on the platform scale. Pipeline recovery and backfill are automated and idempotent. Access to sensitive data always passes a named steward and expires. The ceiling is a governance decision, not a technical limit, and only Director, Data Platform can propose moving it. binds 2 agents · Global | ceiling | Access Governance Agent | Director, Data Platform | v1.3 | Active |