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01 · DATABRICKS MEDALLION

A governed Databricks lakehouse — production-grade.

Bronze · silver · gold layers on a Unity-Catalog-governed lakehouse. Lakeflow Connect + Auto Loader for ingestion, a metadata-driven framework for the build itself, and serverless serving for SQL, BI, apps and AI — all on Azure, hosted in Australia.

01 / 06Why Databricks

One lakehouse for analytics, ML, and AI.

The hardest part of a modern data platform isn’t any individual tool — it’s making analytics, ML and AI share the same governed surface without a tangle of copies, exports, and bespoke pipelines.

Databricks gives us one Delta-native lakehouse, Unity Catalog as the single source of governance, and serverless compute end-to-end. We build the medallion framework on top of it so your team writes business logic in one layer — not glue code across five.

02 / 06Architecture

The reference we build from.

Sources flow into managed ingestion, land in bronze, conform through silver, and are modelled into gold for SQL, BI, AI and partner sharing. Unity Catalog spans the lot. The full reference is below — your build will use the parts that fit your scope.

Reference · Azure Databricks · Medallion
Orchestration · CI/CDLakeflow JobsDAG · TRIGGERSAsset BundlesYAML · DEPLOYAzure DevOpsPR → DEV → PRODpytest · dry-runUNIT · DATA · E2ELakehouse MonitorDRIFT · QUALITYSystem TablesFINOPS · AUDITSourcesCore systemsLINE-OF-BUSINESSOperational DBsSQL · ORACLESaaS applicationsCRM · HR · ITSMPartner feedsAGENCY · REFERENCEEvent streamsEVENTS · TELEMETRYFile / batchSFTP · API · EXPORTSIngestLakeflow ConnectMANAGED · SERVERLESSSaaS · DB CDCAuto LoadercloudFiles · INCREMENTALSchema evolution onSpark StreamingEVENT HUBS · KAFKAExactly-onceUC VolumesRAW LANDINGGoverned file zoneLakehouse · Unity Catalog GovernedBronzeRAW · APPENDStreaming tables_ingest_ts · _sourceSchema evolutionNo business logicSCHEMA: bronze.<source>SilverCONFORMED · CLEANMaterialized viewsAUTO CDC · SCD2UC expectationsQuarantine flowSCHEMA: silver.<domain>GoldBUSINESS · ML · AIStar schema martsFeature tablesVector indexesLiquid clusteringSCHEMA: gold.<domain>ServeDatabricks SQLSERVERLESS WAREHOUSEPower BI · AI/BIDASHBOARDSDatabricks AppsOPERATIONAL UIS · TOOLSMosaic AIAGENTS · VECTOR SEARCHReverse ETLCOSMOS · POSTGRESDelta SharingOPEN PROTOCOL · PARTNERSUnity Catalog · Single Pane of Governancedev · test · prod catalogsLineage · column-levelRow · column masksEntra ID · SCIMAudit logTags · classificationDelta Sharing · externalAzure Foundation · Australia EastADLS Gen2HIERARCHICAL · UC EXTERNAL LOCPrivate Link · VNetNCC FOR SERVERLESSKey VaultSECRETS · CMK · MIEntra IDSSO · MANAGED IDENTITYAzure MonitorLOGS · METRICS · ALERTSData residency · DRAU EAST · GEO-REDUNDANTFlowSOURCESINGESTBRONZESILVERGOLDSERVEStreaming & CDC at ingest · materialised increments through silver · domain marts in gold · serverless serving
Sources Ingest Bronze Silver Gold Serve Unity Catalog Azure foundation
03 / 06What we build

Six capabilities, one platform.

01

Bronze · silver · gold layers

Delta-native medallion with append-only bronze, conformed silver, and business-modelled gold. Promotion gates, lineage, and clear ownership at every layer.

02

Unity Catalog governance

A single pane for catalogs, lineage, row + column masks, Entra-mapped identities, tags, and audit. Dev · test · prod separated from day one.

03

Lakeflow Connect + Auto Loader

Managed CDC from SaaS + operational databases. Auto Loader for file landing with schema evolution. Structured Streaming for Event Hubs / Kafka where you need exactly-once.

04

Metadata-driven framework

Pipelines, schemas, schedules, and DQ rules expressed as configuration. Add a new source by editing config — not by hand-coding another notebook.

05

Serverless serving

Databricks SQL warehouses, Power BI + AI/BI dashboards, Databricks Apps for operational UIs, Mosaic AI for agents and vector search, Delta Sharing for partners.

06

CI/CD + observability

Asset Bundles, Azure DevOps pipelines, pytest dry-runs, Lakehouse Monitor for drift and quality, System Tables for FinOps and audit.

04 / 06Who it's for

Built for you if…

  • 01

    You're modernising a legacy SQL Server, Synapse, or on-prem warehouse and want a Databricks-first lakehouse without inventing the medallion framework yourself.

  • 02

    You need a governed lakehouse with AI-ready data and want Unity Catalog as the spine of governance from the start.

  • 03

    You want serverless across compute and serving so capacity scales with the workload, not with a fixed cluster you forgot to turn off.

  • 04

    You'll have an in-house team take over once it's live and you need them trained on the framework, not just the output.

  • 05

    You require Australian-hosted, sovereign-friendly infrastructure with full IP ownership on day one.

05 / 06How we deliver

Discover · design · build + enable.

No week-by-week template — each engagement is scoped after discovery and runs in short cycles with demos every cycle.

  1. — 01

    Discover

    Source inventory, target architecture, success metrics, and team alignment workshops. Catchment of in-scope domains and the data contracts that need to exist.

  2. — 02

    Design + align

    Architecture, scope, and roadmap signed off before production code is written. Trade-offs made on paper — naming, schema conventions, governance, CI/CD, runtime sizing — not in build.

  3. — 03

    Build + enable

    Iterative delivery in your own tenancy. Working software in your environment from week one, with demos every cycle. Handover includes runbooks, docs, and a team that can extend it.

06 / 06FAQ

Common questions.

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Tell us what you’re trying to build.

Send a project brief and we’ll reply within one business day with a scoped response — and only take it on if we’re confident we can ship.