Data Engineering

Data Engineering & Lakehouse Architecture

We replace fragile spaghetti ETL with lineage-tracked, tested, observable data workflows. 1B+ events/day. Sub-second query latency. Pipelines your BI team actually trusts.

 <1s Query Latency  1B+ Events/Day  99.8% Pipeline SLA

// the problem

The Pipeline Debt Spiral

Data pipelines accrete complexity silently. By the time you notice the problem, it's a multi-year untangling project — and every business decision is made on data nobody fully trusts.

Brittle Scripts, No Lineage

Bash scripts scheduled in cron. SQL files with no version control. When something breaks, no one knows where data came from or what it affects downstream.

Silent 3am Failures

Pipelines fail overnight with no alerting. Dashboards show stale data from yesterday. The BI team reports it Monday morning. Business meetings ran on bad numbers all week.

40% Time on Validation

BI analysts spend nearly half their time not building dashboards — but validating whether the numbers are right at all. This is an infrastructure failure disguised as a staffing problem.

Data Team Gets the Blame

When a metric looks wrong in a board deck, the data team is called into question — even when the root cause is a broken upstream ETL job three hops away.

  The real cost: Stale data means stale decisions. Businesses making inventory, marketing, or pricing decisions on 12-hour-old data routinely leave millions in value on the table — or take on risk they didn't know they had.

// what we build

Modern Data Infrastructure, Actually Built

Not a slide deck. Not a reference architecture. A working platform delivered and documented so your team can own it independently.

Streaming Lakehouse

Real-time event ingestion into a transactional lakehouse. Kafka → Glue streaming → S3 Iceberg tables → Redshift with sub-second freshness for BI and ML alike.

// Kafka · Glue · S3 Iceberg · Redshift · Flink

Batch ELT Platform

dbt models with full test coverage, data contracts enforced at ingestion, OpenLineage metadata for every transformation, and Airflow orchestrating the whole thing.

// dbt · Airflow · OpenLineage · Great Expectations

Data Warehouse Optimisation

Query performance tuning, partition and clustering strategies, materialized view design, and cost rightsizing. We've cut Redshift/Snowflake bills by 40–60% on day one.

// Redshift · Snowflake · BigQuery · Cost Engineering

Data Platform Governance

Data catalog with automated lineage, column-level access controls, PII discovery, and data mesh architecture for domain ownership at scale.

// Glue Catalog · Lake Formation · Data Contracts

// architecture

A Typical Lakehouse Flow

Every architecture is tailored to your data volumes, latency requirements, and team skills — but here's a representative streaming lakehouse pattern:

Sources
Kafka
Glue Streaming
S3 Iceberg
dbt Models
Redshift
BI / ML

// toolchain

Enterprise-Grade Data Stack

Battle-tested tools across streaming, batch, storage, query, and observability layers. We choose for your team's long-term maintainability, not for novelty.

Spark Airflow Kafka Glue dbt Redshift Databricks Iceberg Flink Pinot OpenSearch Great Expectations

// engagement model

Three Phases to Pipeline Confidence

From audit to production platform to fully governed data mesh — structured to deliver business value at every phase, not just at the end.

1
Phase 1

Pipeline Audit

Map all data sources, ETL jobs, and downstream consumers. Score pipeline health, SLA coverage, and lineage gaps. Deliver prioritised remediation plan.

2
Phase 2

Core Platform Build

Migrate highest-value pipelines to dbt + Airflow or streaming lakehouse. Add data contracts, testing, and observability. BI team velocity increases within weeks.

3
Phase 3

Optimisation + Governance

Cost rightsizing, query performance tuning, data catalog buildout, PII controls, and domain ownership handoff for long-term independent operation.


// client result

From 12-Hour Batch to 47-Second Real-Time

National Retail Chain — 1B+ Events/Day Lakehouse Migration

A major retailer was running nightly batch jobs to feed their merchandising and inventory dashboards. By the time buyers saw demand signals, the window to act had already closed. Decisions lagged reality by 12+ hours.

We migrated their entire pipeline to a Kafka → Glue → S3 Iceberg → Redshift streaming lakehouse processing over 1 billion events per day. Latency dropped from 12 hours to 47 seconds. Infrastructure costs dropped by $6,300/month through Redshift rightsizing and Iceberg compaction.

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1B+
Events/Day
12hr→47s
Latency
$6.3K
Saved/Mo

// pricing

Clear Scope, Predictable Investment

Fixed-scope or range pricing on every engagement. No hourly billing. You always know what you're getting before work begins.

Discovery

Pipeline Audit

$7.5K fixed
  • Full inventory of pipelines, sources, and consumers
  • SLA coverage and freshness gap analysis
  • Data quality scoring and lineage assessment
  • Cost optimisation opportunities identified
  • Delivered in 5 business days
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Ongoing

Embedded Data Team

$22K–$40K/mo
  • Dedicated data engineers embedded in your org
  • New source integrations and model development
  • Continuous cost and performance optimisation
  • On-call pipeline incident support
  • Monthly data platform health report
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