Databricks data platforms & data quality
Data platforms that hold up under audit.
QualityLake designs, builds and governs Databricks lakehouses for European enterprises — with data quality, cost control and CI/CD built in from the first commit, not retrofitted after the first incident.
- Unity Catalog governance
- Terraform & Asset Bundles
- SAP ERP integration
- Streaming & batch
- 6 years building on Databricks
- 20+ years in data engineering
- 5 active Databricks & Azure certifications
- 3 SAP ERP integration programmes
Why this keeps happening
Most lakehouse problems are not platform problems.
The technology is rarely the constraint. The failures we are called in to fix are almost always design decisions that were deferred.
Quality found in the dashboard, not the pipeline
Bad records are discovered by the people who trusted them. Validation belongs at the boundary, with contracts and gates that fail loudly.
Governance bolted on after go-live
Permissions accumulate by exception until nobody can say who can read what. A Unity Catalog model in code, versioned like everything else, is the fix.
Costs that only surface at the invoice
Cluster sprawl, all-purpose compute for scheduled jobs, and no ownership tags. Cost design is an architecture decision, not a finance problem.
What we do
Four service lines, one platform discipline.
Each engagement produces working software and written documentation. Nothing lives only in someone's head.
Platform engineering
A governed Databricks lakehouse your teams can onboard onto without a project each time.
- Medallion architecture
- Unity Catalog in Terraform
- Asset Bundles and CI/CD
Data quality engineering
Rules, contracts and gates that stop bad records before they reach a report.
- Expectations and DQX rules
- Data contracts
- Freshness and volume SLAs
SAP & enterprise source integration
Master and transactional data out of SAP ERP and into a modelled, incremental lakehouse.
- Extraction patterns
- Incremental loads
- Documented semantic layer
Cost and performance optimisation
Compute right-sized, jobs tuned, spend attributable to the team that caused it.
- Compute right-sizing
- Job and query tuning
- Tagging and chargeback
How we work
Fixed scope, defined deliverables, no open-ended time and materials.
Every stage has an end state you can point at. If the scope changes, we write a new one rather than quietly extending the invoice.
- 01
Assess
Five days, fixed price. We read the code, the catalog and the bills, and hand back a scored report.
- 02
Design
Architecture, governance model and quality model, agreed in writing before anyone opens an editor.
- 03
Build
Fixed-scope increments. Everything in Git, CI/CD from day one, reviewed as it lands.
- 04
Hand over or run
Your team owns it, with documentation and onboarding. Or we keep quality on a retainer.
Engagements
Priced work, not a day-rate relationship.
All prices exclude VAT.
Lakehouse health check
€7,500
5 days, fixed
Architecture, governance, data-quality and cost audit of an existing Databricks estate. Deliverable: a scored report and a prioritised remediation roadmap.
Most engagements start here.
Platform foundation
from €38,000
4–6 weeks
A Unity Catalog-governed workspace, medallion architecture, Terraform infrastructure, Databricks Asset Bundles, reusable CI/CD templates, and your first two production pipelines with quality gates.
SAP to lakehouse
from €55,000
6–8 weeks
Master and transactional SAP ERP data extracted, modelled and incrementally loaded into the lakehouse with a documented semantic layer.
Cost and performance tune-up
€14,000
2 weeks, fixed
Compute right-sizing, job and query optimisation, tagging and chargeback. Deliverable: a measured before-and-after.
Data quality as a service
from €4,500 / month
Ongoing
Quality rules, data contracts and freshness SLAs monitored on your own Databricks compute, with a named engineer and a monthly quality review.
Fixed-scope engagements with defined deliverables. Day-rate work is available for extensions to an existing engagement.
Start with five days.
A health check costs €7,500 and tells you exactly what is wrong, what it costs you, and what to fix first. If we are not the right people to fix it, the report is still yours.
Book a health check