Modern Data Architecture.
Lakehouse, event-driven, data mesh — secure, flexible architectures that serve as the foundation for data and analytics today and as you grow.
Architecture is a decision record, not a diagram.
The best architectures are traceable: every component choice tied to a specific requirement, a specific trade-off, a specific owner. We work that way — ADRs you can point at in two years and understand why.
We cover cloud, on-premises and hybrid — including regulated environments (public sector, financial services, housing) where sovereignty matters.
Patterns we apply.
Lakehouse
Medallion architecture on Databricks / Fabric / open-format — the default for most new builds.
Event-driven & streaming
Kafka / Confluent / Kinesis / Event Hubs — for real-time, CDC, product telemetry.
Data mesh
Domain-owned data products, federated governance. For large, heterogeneous orgs where central teams bottleneck.
Hub-and-spoke warehouse
Where conformity and finance-grade governance outweigh domain autonomy.
On-prem / hybrid
Where regulation or sovereignty demands it. We've delivered full on-prem Databricks and open-format stacks.
AI / agent architecture
Retrieval, model hosting, observability, guardrails — as first-class architecture concerns.
Structured design, reviewable decisions.
Requirements
Functional, NFR, regulatory, commercial constraints surfaced and weighted.
Options & trade-offs
2–3 candidate architectures with ADRs, cost models, risk profile.
Target-state
Final architecture, migration path, standards, patterns library.
Stewardship
Architecture council, pattern updates, exception management.
- ✓Target-state architectureDiagrams, component rationale, NFR evidence.
- ✓Architecture Decision RecordsTraceable, reviewable, durable.
- ✓Reference implementationsWorking templates, not PowerPoint.
- ✓Standards & patternsNaming, interfaces, quality gates, governance hooks.
- ✓Migration pathFrom current to target with sequenced interim states.
- ✓Architecture council charterGovernance for architecture change.
Tools & frameworks we use.
A real engagement.
Accounting network — data mesh across 12 firms.
A federated data mesh gave each member firm domain autonomy while surfacing shared metrics to network leadership. Onboarding a new firm now takes 4 weeks, down from 6 months.
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