Data Engineering Services

Pipelines, lakehouse platforms, and governance built by engineers who ship production systems, with the security posture of a compliance firm. Data engineering services across Databricks, Snowflake, and Palantir Foundry, built AI-ready from day one.
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Definition

What is data engineering consulting?

Data engineering consulting is the design and build of the systems that move, store, and serve your data: ingestion pipelines, lakehouse platforms, quality controls, and the governance that makes any of it trustworthy. BD Emerson builds on Databricks, Snowflake, and Palantir Foundry with engineers who run these systems in production, not just in diagrams. And because the same firm delivers SOC 2, ISO 27001, and privacy programs, security and governance are built into the platform from the first commit rather than retrofitted before an audit.

Services

What do our data engineering services include?

Pipelines and ELT
Lakehouse architecture
Quality and observability
Governance and Unity Catalog
Platform migrations
Streaming and real-time

Pipeline and ELT build

Batch and incremental pipelines that land raw data, transform it into modeled layers, and publish it to the teams and tools that need it. Idempotent, tested, and observable, so a 3 a.m. failure is a retry, not an outage.

Lakehouse and platform architecture

Platform design across Databricks, Palantir Foundry, and Snowflake: medallion layers, compute sizing, workspace topology, and cost controls. We pick the platform for your workloads and constraints, and we show the reasoning.

Data quality and observability

Expectations and tests on the data itself, freshness and volume monitoring, lineage, and alerting that reaches a human who can act. Trust in dashboards is earned by the plumbing behind them.

Governance and Unity Catalog

Access control, classification, lineage, and audit built into the platform: Unity Catalog on Databricks and equivalent controls elsewhere. Governance implemented as code, not as a policy document nobody enforces.

Platform migrations

Warehouse-to-lakehouse moves, legacy ETL replacement, and platform consolidations run with parallel validation, so cutover is boring and nothing disappears in transit. The old system stays until the new one proves itself.

Streaming and real-time data

Event ingestion, change data capture, and streaming transformations for the use cases that cannot wait for the nightly batch: operational analytics, alerting, and AI features that act on what is happening now.

Our approach

Our approach

01

Map the data estate

Sources, owners, contracts, and consumers, documented as they are, not as the architecture diagram claims. This is where most surprises surface, cheaply.

02

Design for the workloads

Platform and architecture choices follow from your actual query patterns, volumes, and latency needs, with cost modeled before anything is provisioned.

03

Build in thin slices

The first pipeline reaches production in weeks, not quarters. Each slice ships with tests, monitoring, and documentation, so progress is usable rather than theoretical.

04

Govern from the first commit

Access, classification, and lineage are wired in as the platform grows. Retrofitting governance costs multiples of building with it.

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Ready for data your teams can trust?

Speak with BD Emerson about your pipelines, your platform, and what it will take to make the data AI-ready.

Our Advantage

Why BD Emerson for data engineering

Engineers who run production

The people designing your platform operate systems like it in production. Recommendations come from experience, not from a reference architecture PDF.

Security posture of a compliance firm

SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, and privacy programs are the other half of our practice, so platforms are built to pass audits and customer diligence by default.

Tool-agnostic, opinionated

Databricks, Snowflake, or Foundry: we work across all three, recommend one for your workloads, and put the reasoning in writing so you can challenge it.

Reviews

What our customers say

Great consulting firms for scaling security, compliance, and appsec.

Outstanding partner in Technical and Cyber Due Diligence

Appsec maturity and application hardening.

BD Emerson helped us simplfiy our compliance management.

BD Emerson did such a phenomenal job. What started as privacy support quickly became a full partnership across compliance, engineering, and even business operations. They’re embedded with our team. They understand our product. They move fast. They’re simply invaluable.

Adam Ben Jacobs

CTO @ OneStep GPS

Great consulting firms for scaling security, compliance, and appsec.

Outstanding partner in Technical and Cyber Due Diligence

Appsec maturity and application hardening.

BD Emerson helped us simplfiy our compliance management.

BD Emerson did such a phenomenal job. What started as privacy support quickly became a full partnership across compliance, engineering, and even business operations. They’re embedded with our team. They understand our product. They move fast. They’re simply invaluable.

Adam Ben Jacobs

CTO @ OneStep GPS

We had a hard time finding the right company to partner with in support of our compliance journey. Some vendors sell the idea that they do the work, but then you end up doing everything. The ambiguity is what killed our last project. BD Emerson’s team has such great technical knowledge and understands the standard so well that they made us comfortable with moving fast. This has led to us closing major enterprise customers that were previously out of reach because of security and compliance.

Tom Watkins

CEO @ AMI AssetTrack

Lead an enterprise initiative to overhaul the organization's technology stack from ecommerce, corporate tech, and corporate security.

Supported ISO 42001 exercise and served as internal auditor.

Rubrik's privacy and compliance team began with the backbone of BD Emerson. BD Emerson supported building out the privacy program, GRC (ISO 27001, SOC 2, CMMC, FedRAMP), and the appsec function.

We needed a partner who could move quickly, without sacrificing precision. BD Emerson brought the expertise, structure, and speed we were looking for. Their team became an extension of ours, embedding themselves across the organization, guiding us step by step, and giving us confidence in areas we hadn’t tackled before. The internal audit they conducted was so detailed that even the external auditors called it out. Achieving ISO 27001 with zero nonconformities says everything you need to know about the quality of the partnership.

Walid Souilem

CTO @ FGI Worldwide

We had a hard time finding the right company to partner with in support of our compliance journey. Some vendors sell the idea that they do the work, but then you end up doing everything. The ambiguity is what killed our last project. BD Emerson’s team has such great technical knowledge and understands the standard so well that they made us comfortable with moving fast. This has led to us closing major enterprise customers that were previously out of reach because of security and compliance.

Tom Watkins

CEO @ AMI AssetTrack

Lead an enterprise initiative to overhaul the organization's technology stack from ecommerce, corporate tech, and corporate security.

Supported ISO 42001 exercise and served as internal auditor.

Rubrik's privacy and compliance team began with the backbone of BD Emerson. BD Emerson supported building out the privacy program, GRC (ISO 27001, SOC 2, CMMC, FedRAMP), and the appsec function.

We needed a partner who could move quickly, without sacrificing precision. BD Emerson brought the expertise, structure, and speed we were looking for. Their team became an extension of ours, embedding themselves across the organization, guiding us step by step, and giving us confidence in areas we hadn’t tackled before. The internal audit they conducted was so detailed that even the external auditors called it out. Achieving ISO 27001 with zero nonconformities says everything you need to know about the quality of the partnership.

Walid Souilem

CTO @ FGI Worldwide

BD Emerson didn’t just help us meet our compliance goals; they integrated security and privacy into the core of our operations. I highly recommend BD Emerson to anyone seeking SOC 2 or GDPR compliance, or simply looking to enhance their security team and boost customer trust in their product and services. Their dedication and expertise have been invaluable to our success.

Padraig Reilly

CEO, Boxcore

BD Emerson understood our business requirements and worked side-by-side with us. The policies and controls we developed together not only meet compliance standards but improve how we operate day to day.

Matt Meierdierks

IT Manager, Lincoln Industries

From day one, BD Emerson brought urgency, clarity, and a sharp understanding of what truly matters to our business — earning and keeping customer trust. They went beyond helping us meet compliance requirements; they helped build a foundation for secure, scalable growth. That kind of partnership is rare.

Jason Marker

CEO @ LifeLenz

BD Emerson didn’t just help us pass an audit—they helped us build a sustainable culture of security.

Alexey Indeev

CTO Spare

BD Emerson was essential in helping our company navigate the daunting process of leveling up our security infrastructure. BD Emerson’s impressive expertise and confidence throughout the process helped our team exceed HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 1 standards quickly, distilling what can be an overwhelming process into a streamlined, organized effort. From day one they began adding value and getting us on course. With their help we delivered on a massive security overhaul with both extreme efficiency and thorough attention to details. Because of BD Emerson’s support, we’ve increased our clients’ trust in Titan Intake and the life-changing work it accomplishes for those seeking specialist referrals.

Patrick Bruce

CEO, Titan Intake

BD Emerson didn’t just help us meet our compliance goals; they integrated security and privacy into the core of our operations. I highly recommend BD Emerson to anyone seeking SOC 2 or GDPR compliance, or simply looking to enhance their security team and boost customer trust in their product and services. Their dedication and expertise have been invaluable to our success.

Padraig Reilly

CEO, Boxcore

BD Emerson understood our business requirements and worked side-by-side with us. The policies and controls we developed together not only meet compliance standards but improve how we operate day to day.

Matt Meierdierks

IT Manager, Lincoln Industries

From day one, BD Emerson brought urgency, clarity, and a sharp understanding of what truly matters to our business — earning and keeping customer trust. They went beyond helping us meet compliance requirements; they helped build a foundation for secure, scalable growth. That kind of partnership is rare.

Jason Marker

CEO @ LifeLenz

BD Emerson didn’t just help us pass an audit—they helped us build a sustainable culture of security.

Alexey Indeev

CTO Spare

BD Emerson was essential in helping our company navigate the daunting process of leveling up our security infrastructure. BD Emerson’s impressive expertise and confidence throughout the process helped our team exceed HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 1 standards quickly, distilling what can be an overwhelming process into a streamlined, organized effort. From day one they began adding value and getting us on course. With their help we delivered on a massive security overhaul with both extreme efficiency and thorough attention to details. Because of BD Emerson’s support, we’ve increased our clients’ trust in Titan Intake and the life-changing work it accomplishes for those seeking specialist referrals.

Patrick Bruce

CEO, Titan Intake

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