Snowflake and Databricks architecture, governance, and engineering for teams that want the numbers run before the recommendation lands.
Each engagement starts narrow — one warehouse, one workflow, one open question — and grows only when the numbers justify it.
Snowflake and Databricks architecture reviews and greenfield design. We map your workloads to the right warehouse shape, scaling policy, and isolation model — and write down why, with credit numbers behind every choice.
Pipelines, ELT, and platform plumbing — written to be boring and correct. dbt, Airflow, Snowflake tasks, Databricks workflows. Documented runbooks, tested with the data your team actually has.
Role hierarchies, masking, lineage, and audit trails that match the regulatory shape of your business — without paralysing it. We write the policy in code, not on a wiki page nobody reads.
FinOps for data platforms: warehouse sizing, query attribution, idle-time clawback, and the quarterly bill-review nobody volunteers to run. Cuts of 30–70% on real workloads — backed by the methodology in our field note, Adaptive Warehouses (May 2026), with the queries on file.
Redshift to Snowflake. Databricks Hive to Unity Catalog. On-prem Hadoop into either. Phased, reversible, paid for by the savings of the workloads moved first.
Every engagement ends with your team running the thing — not us. We pair with your engineers, leave the runbooks behind, and disappear cleanly. The opposite of consultant lock-in.
Crosshire is one senior architect plus a small bench of trusted specialists who come in only when a project needs them. No staff augmentation, no junior consultants in your meetings.
Before Crosshire, I built and ran data platforms for fintech, healthtech, and supply-chain teams. Snowflake, Databricks, Synapse, Redshift, with multiple migrations on each.
The frustration that started this practice: consultants who recommend without measuring, then leave before the bill lands. Crosshire is the opposite. Every engagement leaves your team with the runbook to reproduce, question, and extend the work after I'm gone.
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