ELT Pipelines for Scalable Data Integration

Transforming fragmented enterprise data into trusted, analytics-ready assets with cloud-native solutions

Our Data Pipeline & ETL Consulting Services

We help teams transform raw data into value — efficiently, scalably, and in sync with your business goals. Whether you’re modernising legacy ETL or building your first analytics stack, we deliver flexible, cloud-native ELT pipelines tailored to your architecture and analytics needs.

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Whether you’re consolidating fragmented data or scaling enterprise analytics, we’ll help you unlock value through robust, cloud-native ELT solutions.

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Unified Data Platform for Cross-Channel Analytics

Design and implementation of a robust ELT framework to centralise, transform, and serve multi-source business data using Databricks, dbt, and cloud-native tools.

Client & Goal Overview

Client Type

Retail Technology Platform (Omnichannel SaaS)


Challenge

The client operated in a fast-paced retail environment with data scattered across multiple operational systems (e-commerce, in-store POS, CRM, inventory, and marketing platforms). Slow reporting cycles, inconsistent metrics, and a lack of visibility across channels were limiting business agility. The objective was to centralise and standardise data delivery for analytics through an automated, scalable ELT pipeline.


Our Role

We designed and delivered a cloud-native ELT architecture combining Databricks and dbt on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The solution ingested, transformed, and modelled multi-source data for near real-time decision-making, enabling consistent, governed insights across business units.

Project Journey & Results

Project Scope
  • Consolidated data from 5+ sources (Salesforce, Shopify, Oracle ERP, Google Ads, in-store POS) into a central GCS landing zone.
  • Leveraged Databricks for scalable ingestion and preprocessing with Auto Loader and Delta Lake.
  • Built modular dbt models for transformation, testing, documentation, and lineage tracking.
  • Delivered analytics-ready datasets to BigQuery for reporting, dashboarding, and machine learning workloads.
  • Implemented scheduling, monitoring, and governance controls for reliability and compliance.

Technical Stack
  • Ingestion: Databricks Auto Loader + Google Cloud Functions
  • Transformation: dbt Cloud with modular SQL and Git integration
  • Storage: Delta Lake on GCS
  • Warehouse: Google BigQuery
  • Orchestration: Databricks Workflows
  • Monitoring: dbt artifacts, Datadog alerts
  • Access Control: IAM roles, service accounts, and row-level policies in BigQuery

Results
  • Centralised fragmented data into one source of truth across departments.
  • Enabled self-service reporting with daily data freshness.
  • Improved data model transparency and stakeholder trust via dbt documentation.

🟧 Cut reporting cycle from 2 days to 1 hour.
🟧 Reduced manual data prep tasks by 85%.
🟧 Achieved 99.5% pipeline success rate with automated testing and alerts.

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