Data, Analytics & AI

Data Lakehouse & Warehouse

A modern lakehouse, engineered to compound.

Lakehouse architectures on Databricks, Snowflake, and BigQuery — designed for governed scale, FinOps discipline, and downstream AI workloads.

The case

A lakehouse is more
than a storage decision.

Most lakehouse rebuilds stall at the same point — eighteen months in, the platform is technically sound but operationally thin. Catalogs are partial, lineage is aspirational, governance was a phase-two ticket that got descoped, and the AI workloads it was built to feed quietly went elsewhere.

We engineer for the operating posture from week one. Open formats, governed catalogs, FinOps tagging, and a semantic layer that downstream BI, ML, and AI copilots all consume from one place — built so the next decade of workloads compound on the same spine.

What we build

Governed scale,
engineered from day one.

01

Reference architecture

Bronze / Silver / Gold patterns on open formats (Iceberg, Delta) with governed catalogs and lineage built in — not retrofitted under audit pressure.

02

Migration & modernization

Lift-and-shift, replatform, or strangler migration from legacy warehouses to a composable lakehouse — without a freeze on the analytics roadmap.

03

Semantic & metrics layer

A governed metrics layer that feeds BI, ML features, and AI copilots from one source of truth — versioned, tested, and documented.

04

FinOps & query optimization

Workload tagging, query rewriting, materialized-view strategy, and per-workload unit economics that survive scale.

05

Streaming & real-time

Kafka, Kinesis, or platform-native streaming for sub-second materialization where it actually drives a business outcome.

06

Catalog, lineage & observability

Unity Catalog, OpenMetadata, or platform-native cataloging with column-level lineage and data-product observability.

Reference architecture

The lakehouse stack,
engineered in layers.

Each layer is independent enough to evolve and integrated enough to compound. We adapt the specifics to your cloud, regulator, and team posture.

01

Bronze — raw landing

Layer 01

Schema-on-read landing in open formats with replayable history and tenant-aware partitioning.

Iceberg / Delta
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CDC ingestion
Tenant partitioning
Replay & audit
02

Silver — curated

Layer 02

Conformed entities, slow-changing dimensions, and quality contracts enforced before promotion.

dbt / DBX SQL
Great Expectations
Slowly changing dims
Schema contracts
Soft-delete
03

Gold — analytical & AI-ready

Layer 03

Semantic models, governed marts, and feature views that BI, ML, and AI copilots consume in lockstep.

dbt Semantic
Cube / LookML
Feature views
Aggregate marts
Reverse-ETL
04

Governance plane

Layer 04

Catalog, lineage, classification, and access policy that travel with every dataset and metric.

Unity Catalog
OpenMetadata
Tag-based RBAC
Column-level lineage
Audit trails
05

Operations plane

Layer 05

Workload tagging, FinOps observability, alerting, and SLOs treated as first-class platform concerns.

FinOps tags
Datadog / Grafana
Per-workload SLOs
Cost alerts
Capacity plans

Stacks we work with

The platform choice
is made per estate, not by template.

We carry senior partnerships with Databricks, Snowflake, and Google Cloud — and consciously stay platform-agnostic. The selection is made against your data gravity, regulator posture, and existing skills, not a partnership tier.

01

Lakehouse & warehouse

Where the data physically lives. The choice is driven by data gravity, regulatory posture, and the SQL fluency of your existing teams — not by which vendor sponsored the most recent conference.

DatabricksSnowflakeBigQueryRedshiftSynapseIcebergDelta Lake
02

Transformation & modeling

The seam between raw data and analytical truth. Picked for testability, version control, and how naturally the analyst-engineers on your team will pick it up.

dbt Clouddbt CoreCoalesceDBX SQLBigQuery DataForm
03

Ingestion

How data lands. Driven by source SLAs, change-data-capture needs, and cost-per-million-rows when volumes get serious. Different tools win in different rows of the catalog.

FivetranAirbyteKafkaKinesisDebeziumAuto-Loader
04

Catalog & governance

What turns a lakehouse from a swamp. Selected for column-level lineage, tag-based access policy, and regulator-readable audit trails — engineered in from week one, never retrofitted under audit pressure.

Unity CatalogOpenMetadataAtlanCollibraAWS Glue Catalog
05

Quality & observability

How we know the data is right before it reaches a decision. Bias toward declarative contracts in CI and continuous monitoring in production — alarms that fire before the dashboard does.

Great ExpectationsMonte CarloSodaDatafoldDataHub
06

Activation

Where governed data leaves the lakehouse to drive a workflow — CRM enrichment, lifecycle marketing, finance reconciliation. Reverse-ETL or semantic layer, depending on the consumer.

HightouchCensusReverse-ETL patternsCubeLookML

Outcomes we engineer for

What a hardened
lakehouse pays back.

Numbers below are typical of what we measure on the first 12 months post-cutover. Your numbers will differ — but the categories of leverage are consistent.

70%+

Time-to-insight

Reduction in median time from new question to answered, post-semantic-layer rollout.

30–45%

Compute spend

Cost reduction inside year one through workload tagging, FinOps tuning, and architectural rework.

AI/ML reuse

More features, semantic models, and pipelines reused across teams when the lakehouse is governed end-to-end.

Audit-ready

From day one

Column-level lineage, classification, and access policy in place before the regulator asks.

Where this applies

Any data-rich
operational estate.

Lakehouse architectures are sector-agnostic — the regulatory and data-gravity nuances vary, but the engineering posture doesn't.

  • Banking & Capital Markets
  • Insurance & Reinsurance
  • Healthcare Providers & Payers
  • Pharma & Life Sciences
  • Manufacturing
  • Energy & Utilities
  • Retail & Luxury
  • Consumer Goods
  • Hospitality & Travel
  • Telecom & Media
  • Logistics & Mobility
  • Public Sector
  • B2B SaaS
  • Higher Education

Start the conversation

From legacy warehouse
to a lakehouse that compounds.

Whether you're modernizing a fragmented estate or scaling a working lakehouse to its next order of magnitude, we'll help you find the lever that pays back fastest.