Databricks Consulting & Implementation

Lakehouse, Unity Catalog, and Mosaic AI, implemented by engineers who also run your compliance program.
Contact us
Definition

What is Databricks consulting?

Databricks consulting covers the full arc of a lakehouse program: platform architecture and workspace design, data migration and pipeline builds, Unity Catalog governance, Mosaic AI model serving, and the cost and security disciplines that keep the estate defensible. BD Emerson delivers Databricks as an implementation partner with a difference: the same practice that runs security, privacy, and compliance programs configures your platform, so the deployment produces audit evidence instead of audit findings.

Services

What Databricks services are included?

Lakehouse implementation
Unity Catalog governance
Mosaic AI and model serving
Migration to Databricks
Security and compliance
Cost optimization and operations

Lakehouse implementation

Workspace architecture, medallion-layer pipeline design, Delta Lake modeling, and orchestration built for production from day one: tested pipelines, monitored jobs, and owners for every dataset your business depends on.

Unity Catalog governance

Unity Catalog is where governance lives: catalogs and schemas that mirror your organization, fine-grained access controls, lineage, and audit. We design the permission model before the data lands, because retrofitting governance onto a populated lakehouse is the expensive path.

Mosaic AI and model serving

Model serving, vector search, RAG pipelines, and agent workflows on Mosaic AI, including private serving of open-weight models inside your tenant. Evaluation and guardrails ship with every deployment, not after it.

Migration to Databricks

Warehouse, Hadoop, and legacy ETL migrations sequenced to pay for themselves: highest-value workloads first, dual-run validation, and a decommissioning plan that actually retires the old estate instead of running two forever.

Security and compliance

Private networking, customer-managed keys, secret management, and workspace hardening mapped to SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and sector rules. Your lakehouse produces the evidence your auditors and enterprise customers ask for.

Cost optimization and operations

Cluster policies, serverless strategy, and spend observability that routinely recover meaningful budget, plus runbooks and training so your team runs the platform with BD Emerson as the escalation bench.

Our approach

Our approach

01

Prove value on one workload

The first six to ten weeks target one dataset and one consumer that matter: a pipeline in production with governance on, not a platform program on a slide.

02

Govern before you populate

Unity Catalog structure, access model, and naming discipline come before bulk migration. Data lands governed or it lands twice.

03

Engineer for the bill

Cost is an architecture property. Cluster policies, job right-sizing, and serverless choices are made at design time and verified against the invoice.

04

Transfer the keys

Paired delivery, documentation, and training leave your team running the lakehouse. Success is your engineers shipping without us.

contact us

Scoping a Databricks build or migration?

Speak with BD Emerson about your data estate, first workloads, and governance requirements.

Our Advantage

Why BD Emerson for Databricks

Delivery, not decks

Engineers building in your workspaces, measured by pipelines in production, models serving, and workloads migrated.

Audit-ready by default

The practice that runs SOC 2, ISO 27001, and privacy programs configures Unity Catalog and workspace security, so the platform stands up to your next audit on day one.

Platform-honest advice

We also build on Palantir and hyperscaler stacks. Where Databricks wins, we say so with benchmarks. Where it does not, you hear that too.

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

Certificates

Our accreditations

At BD Emerson, we believe that our team's extensive certifications not only set us apart but also ensure that we provide the highest level of service to our clients.
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What does a Databricks consultant do?

What is Unity Catalog and why does it matter?

How long does a Databricks implementation take?

Can Databricks host private AI models?

Databricks or Palantir?

How do we control Databricks costs?

Does Databricks help with SOC 2 or ISO 27001?

Blog

Related Articles

Insights on strategy, transactions, technology, security, and compliance from BD Emerson's practitioners