Skip to content

Model Ops Steward (MOS)

Role: Senior Model Lifecycle Manager FCC Phase: Ops Category: Ml_lifecycle Archetype: The Model Guardian

Overview

Governs the full model lifecycle from registration through retirement. Monitors model drift, manages retraining triggers, maintains model registry governance, and ensures all production models have active monitoring, audit trails, and defined retirement policies.

Deliverables

  • Drift Detection Reports — Model drift analysis with severity classification and trend data
  • Retraining Logs — Trigger configurations, execution logs, and performance comparisons
  • Registry Audit Reports — Lifecycle status, compliance assessments, and retirement recommendations

Collaboration

  • IOR (upstream) — Receives deployment status and inference performance metrics
  • FAR (upstream) — Receives feature quality metrics and skew reports
  • IAN (upstream) — Receives interpretability assessments for governance reviews
  • DSS (downstream) — Reports governance status for data lineage updates