User roles
SYNQ has the following user roles: Admin, Developer, Analyst, and Business User
You can contact an admin user in your workspace if you think you should have admin access. You can see all member roles on the team page
Admin
Overview
Administrators have full control over the SYNQ account, including user management, integrations, and system-wide configurations. This role is typically assigned to IT or data engineering.
Capabilities
- Create and manage integrations
- Invite and manage users
- Provision API clients and tokens
- View usage statistics
- Configure workspace-level settings
- Perform all actions available to other roles
Developer
Overview
Developers are data team members who configure day-to-day functionality in SYNQ. This role is suited for data practitioners such as data engineers, analytics engineers, and analysts.
Capabilities
- Deploy monitors and tests for data quality control
- Set up owners, technical & business alerts
- Manage data products and define their owners and alerts
- Perform all actions available to the Analyst role
Analyst
Overview
Analysts are data team members who need to perform day-to-day actions and access granular observability information without configuring new quality controls and workflows.
Capabilities
- Manage issues and incidents
- Provide feedback to monitors
- Mute alerts temporarily
- Access full data observability details
- View data products and system health
- Access view-only definitions of owners, alerts, and integrations
- Analyze quality analytics with drill-down functionality
- Create personal asset views
Business User
Overview
Business users are non-data practitioners who rely on data and want to understand its quality. They don’t have ownership of debugging and fixing issues, and their access is read-only.
Capabilities
- View an overview of data products, their quality, status, and issues
- Access details of issues and incidents
- View current snapshots of data quality for any data product
- Create personal asset views