Professional Services: Lakehouse Starter in 6 Weeks
From ad-hoc extracts to a reusable Azure lakehouse with metadata-driven ingestion, medallion layers, and a semantic model for trustworthy BI.
Industry
Professional Services
Scope
2 sources → Bronze/Silver/Gold
Duration
6 weeks (pilot)
Stack
ADF, Databricks (Delta), Azure Storage, Power BI
Challenge
- Ad-hoc ETL and spreadsheet sprawl made reporting untrustworthy.
- No consistent ingestion patterns; schema drift caused frequent breakages.
- Leadership needed reliable dashboards for weekly ops.
Approach
- Accelerator deploy: landing zone via IaC, metadata store, CI/CD scaffolding.
- Ingestion: onboard finance + CRM to Bronze/Silver with CDC & schema-drift handling.
- Model: curated Gold tables and a governed Power BI semantic layer.
- Ops: freshness/SLA dashboards, runbooks, and promotion flows (Dev/Test/Prod).
Results
- First subject area live in 6 weeks with reusable patterns.
- Executive dashboard adoption; data freshness by 7:30am daily.
- Clear backlog and cost guardrails for scale-out.
“A clean foundation, not another bespoke project. We can add sources confidently now.”
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