Snowflake or Databricks build for UK data and ML teams. We design the warehouse, wire per-workload cost attribution, set up Unity Catalog, RBAC and a semantic layer, and take you from data lake to BI in one audit-defendable design.
A warehouse is a system you defend on a diligence call, not a notebook you grew by accident. We start with a five-day audit so you know the cost, the governance gaps, and the fixed-price quote before any pipeline ships.
The in-house attempt was two engineers part-time, no observability, no audit log, and a Confluence page that called itself a runbook. The acquirer’s CTO walked it pre-LOI and said: “rip and replace, or a 25% diligence haircut.” The data was good. The build around it wasn’t defensible.
We rebuilt over ten to fourteen weeks. Senior engineers paired daily. ADRs documented the same day. The evidence pipeline was wired on day one. Per-workload cost attribution went in so the bill could never spike silently again.
The acquirer’s CTO came back to the diligence call, walked the same surface, and signed retention. Full team kept. Deal closed at ask. This page is for the founder or data-lead who decided the data and ML system is shipping to production, and wants it to land without taking the business down.
Each one is the difference between a warehouse you defend on a diligence call and one your customers find broken before you do.
Per-pipeline observability wired to PagerDuty and Slack. The customer never finds out a workflow died before you do again.
Cost tags plus budget alerts on every workload. The bill stabilises within 30 days and the spike has a name next time.
Row and column governance through Unity Catalog or Snowflake RBAC, with a semantic layer so the numbers mean the same thing to every team.
Snowflake or Databricks at the core, Python and dbt for the transforms, and the infrastructure that keeps governance and cost under control as the data grows.
The capability that turns a sprawling notebook estate into a warehouse
your acquirer’s CTO walks without flinching.
Every workload tagged, budget alerts wired. Your bill stabilises within 30 days and never spikes silently again.
Send a 5-line briefRow and column governance through Unity Catalog or Snowflake RBAC, multi-tenant aware, with a semantic layer the whole team shares.
Send a 5-line briefEvery decision in an ADR. Every mutation in a signed audit log. Defensible to an acquirer’s CTO and a regulator alike.
Send a 5-line briefA DR drill on the calendar with RTO and RPO documented. Restore under four hours, proven, not hoped.
Send a 5-line briefTime-travel, idempotent workflows, versioned transformations. Every result reproducible, so every number stays defendable.
Send a 5-line briefThe engineers who sign your scope are the ones who ship and maintain it. Two seniors paired daily, ADRs the same day. Names on the SOW are names on the commits.
Send a 5-line briefWe rebuilt a sprawling notebook estate into a defendable warehouse: governed access through Unity Catalog, per-workload cost attribution, signed audit log, a tested restore, and an evidence pipeline the acquirer’s CTO could walk.
A focused set of capabilities that take you from a sprawling data lake to BI in one audit-defendable design.
Snowflake or Databricks at the core, with a semantic layer so the numbers mean the same thing to every team. From data lake to BI in one design.
Row and column governance through Unity Catalog or Snowflake RBAC, multi-tenant aware. “Everyone has admin” is not a model a regulator accepts.
Per-workload cost tags plus budget alerts on every workload. Warehouse sizing, auto-suspend, clustering and query tuning so every pound has a name.
Per-pipeline observability wired to PagerDuty and Slack, and a DR drill on the calendar with RTO and RPO documented. Restore under four hours, proven.
A Vanta evidence pipeline from day one, a signed DPA and SCCs, plus a DSAR runbook and audit-log export. Procurement clears in days, not quarters.
The audit bounds your risk at week one. You decide whether to continue with a fixed-price quote in hand, no day-rate and no scope creep.
Two senior engineers read your existing estate and brief, then write it up.
Eight to fourteen weeks of fixed-scope shipping, audit-led and evidence-first.
One day a week of a senior engineer for three to six months.
“You keep everything. IP assigns on every commit. No lock-in, no deposit forfeiture, no surprises at the end.”
Pain-first, soft-second.
The audit is £8K fixed. The sprint is typically £35K to £95K, fixed-price, scoped at the end of the audit. No day-rate, no scope creep. You see the number before any pipeline ships, and you decide whether to continue.
It depends on your workload, not on fashion. Snowflake leads when BI and SQL analytics dominate and you want governance and time-travel out of the box. Databricks leads when ML, Spark, and notebooks are the centre of gravity, with Unity Catalog for governance. We make the call in the audit, with your team, against your actual queries, and write down why.
No. We work in place where we can. Migration is scoped at the audit if you want it, and the old and new run in parallel until you sign off. Nobody flips a switch and hopes.
An ADR pack, a signed audit log, the evidence pipeline, and a SOC 2 Type II stance. The acquirer’s CTO walks the same surface they threatened to discount, and signs full-team retention. We’ve done this three times across 2024 and 2025.
Yes, because we make the spend legible first. Per-workload cost tags and budget alerts go in so every pound has a name. Warehouse sizing, auto-suspend, clustering and query tuning follow. On the rebuild that opened this page, the bill stabilised inside 30 days.
Unity Catalog or Snowflake RBAC for row and column governance. A Vanta evidence pipeline from day one, with SOC 2 Type 1 achievable in eight to twelve weeks. A signed DPA and SCCs, plus a DSAR runbook and audit-log export. Procurement clears in days.
Every Snowflake or Databricks build runs with two senior engineers paired, not one. Every decision goes into an ADR the same day. Mohit reviews every PR. In seven years, two engineers have left mid-project. Both handovers were inside 48 hours.
Yes, with 14 days’ notice. Engineers move to other projects, the spend pauses, and you resume with 14 days’ notice. No cancellation fee, and a 30-day walk-away both ways throughout.
A look at the kind of snowflake databricks build surface we hand over — real screens, real data, documented and yours from day one.
Tell us your current estate, your deadline, and the outcome you want. Mohit replies inside 24 hours: a clear yes, a clear no, or the one question that decides it, with availability and the next audit slot.
Yes, no, or the deciding question. Straight to your inbox.
30-page brief, six ADRs, cost and governance gaps, fixed-price quote.
Governed, cost-attributed, observable, the brief your acquirer reads.