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Snowflake Practice

Data engineering, designed for outcome.

From raw source systems to Snowflake, dbt, BI and Cortex-powered AI: governed, cost-controlled, and delivered by small senior teams.

What good looks like

  • · One governed Snowflake platform per business unit or portfolio
  • · Versioned, tested dbt models with a shared semantic layer
  • · CI/CD, monitoring, and cost guardrails from day one
  • · Predictable credit spend, transparent chargeback
  • · AI use cases running natively on the same platform
Capabilities

Our Snowflake capabilities

Platform & Governance

Multi-account architecture, RBAC, tagging, masking policies, row access, network policies and cost guardrails.

Ingestion & Integration

Fivetran, Airbyte, Snowpipe, Snowpipe Streaming, Kafka Connect and native SAP / Salesforce / Workday connectors.

Transformation with dbt

Layered models (staging → intermediate → marts), tested and documented. CI/CD on GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.

BI & Self-Service

Power BI, Tableau, Sigma or Streamlit-in-Snowflake, with governed metrics, row-level security, mobile-first.

AI with Snowflake Cortex

LLM-powered search, summarisation and classification directly on Snowflake data via Cortex functions and Snowpark ML.

Migration & Modernisation

Teradata, Netezza, Oracle, Redshift and Synapse → Snowflake with automated conversion and parallel-run validation.

FinOps & Cost

Warehouse right-sizing, query acceleration, materialised views, resource monitors, chargeback. 20–40% typical savings.

Managed Data Platform

24×7 pipeline SLAs, incident response, cost reviews, security posture and quarterly platform upgrades.

Reference Architecture

A pattern that scales

01

Source Layer

SAP S/4HANA & ECC, Salesforce, Workday, NetSuite, databases, event streams and APIs.

02

Ingestion Layer

Fivetran / Airbyte for SaaS. Snowpipe & Snowpipe Streaming. Kafka for events. Custom Python for edge cases.

03

Storage & Compute

Snowflake as one governed platform. Iceberg for open-format. Dynamic tables for incremental pipelines.

04

Transformation Layer

dbt Core / Cloud with layered models, tests, exposures and docs. Airflow or dbt Cloud orchestration.

05

Consumption Layer

Power BI, Tableau, Sigma, Streamlit-in-Snowflake, reverse-ETL, and secure data sharing via Snowflake Marketplace.

06

AI Layer

Snowflake Cortex LLM functions, Cortex Search, Snowpark ML and integration with Azure OpenAI / Foundry.

Who we help

Built for enterprise data problems

Private Equity Portfolios

Consolidated portfolio reporting, standardised KPI packs, 100-day value-creation playbooks, exit-ready data rooms.

SAP-driven Enterprises

Bring SAP ECC / S/4HANA data into Snowflake for real-time analytics, close acceleration and AI use cases.

Digital-native Businesses

Product analytics, marketing attribution, customer 360 and ML feature stores, built to scale.

Engagement model

How we work with you

The same model across every service line: predictable, transparent, and built so you are never locked in.

01

Discovery

2–3 weeks · fixed price

Architecture, data and cost review. Business outcomes and success metrics agreed up-front. Ends with a costed delivery plan you can take to any vendor, including us.

02

Foundation

First 90 days

A small senior pod delivers the first production increment (platform, pipelines or AI solution) with CI/CD, tests and documentation from day one. First value inside the first quarter.

03

Scale

Quarterly increments

Roadmap-led delivery in fortnightly increments. Transparent commercials, pod-based or T&M, with a named engagement lead and weekly steering.

04

Operate or Hand over

Your choice

Managed service with SLAs and cost reviews, or a structured handover to your team. We build for handover by design: documented, tested, no lock-in.