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Data Architecture Consulting

Future-proof your data with expert architecture consulting

Leverage modern data architecture that scales with your business

Your data architecture should be built for growth, not complexity. We help businesses design and optimise systems that ensure secure access, seamless data integration, and reliable performance. Whether you’re structuring data for analytics, improving storage efficiency, or enhancing data governance, we create solutions that support your long-term goals.

Our methodology

We design and implement data architecture that enables scalable, secure, and insight-ready enterprise data ecosystems. Our data architecture consulting services are tailored to meet your specific needs, whether you’re modernising infrastructure, scaling analytics capabilities, or preparing for cloud migration.

This is how we build architectures that last.

1. Discovery and Landscape Mapping

We begin by getting close to your business; aligning technical discovery with commercial priorities. Through interviews, system audits, and data flow reviews, we map how enterprise data currently moves through your organisation. We identify where fragmentation, duplication, or lack of governance is creating inefficiencies, and highlight the constraints holding your business back from data maturity.

2. Architecture Design and Strategic Blueprinting

With a clear view of your current environment, we design a target-state architecture that defines how your data is structured, governed, and accessed. This includes conceptual, logical, and physical models, along with key technology and governance decisions. Whether on-premise or cloud-based, our designs are built for resilience, flexibility, and long-term value.

3. Cloud Platform Alignment

Modern data architecture is cloud-oriented by default. We guide you through key decisions around cloud platforms, ensuring alignment between your architecture and your chosen infrastructure, whether that’s Azure, AWS, GCP, or a hybrid model. We factor in security, performance, and cost-efficiency, helping you build a future-proofed environment that can support streaming, batch processing, and advanced analytics with ease.

4. Data Transformations and Pipeline Engineering

Your enterprise data is only as valuable as your ability to transform it into something usable. We design the architecture that supports end-to-end data transformations, from ingestion and validation through to modelling, enrichment, and delivery. Whether you need real-time streams or robust batch pipelines, we ensure your data is trusted, structured, and aligned to the decisions and systems that depend on it.

5. Governance, Metadata, and Enablement

We embed governance into every layer of the architecture; not as a bolt-on, but as a critical enabler. That includes metadata frameworks, lineage visibility, and role-based access controls to support auditability, discoverability, and compliance. This approach also makes it easier to unlock self-service analytics and empower business users, while maintaining the integrity of your data.

6. Delivery and Change Support

Unlike many data architecture consulting services, we don’t stop at the design phase. We support implementation, working side-by-side with your teams to ensure adoption and operationalisation. We also provide roadmap planning and capability uplift to embed data architecture within your long-term data strategy. Our goal isn’t just a blueprint, it’s a business-ready architecture that works in practice, not just in theory.

Use cases for modern data architecture

Preparing for Cloud Migration

Organisations moving to cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, or GCP need a scalable data architecture that reduces technical debt and aligns with cloud-native services. We help you design a future-ready architecture that supports migration with minimal disruption and maximum value.

Enabling Enterprise-Wide Analytics

When data lives in silos, it becomes difficult to generate timely insights. We build architectures that unify data sources, improve governance, and enable secure access, so analytics teams can spend less time wrangling data and more time unlocking insight.

Modernising Legacy Systems

Outdated data infrastructure creates friction, cost, and risk. Whether you're running on monolithic platforms or disconnected tools, we help you modernise your architecture to improve performance, integration, and resilience, without starting from scratch.

Supporting AI and Machine Learning Initiatives

Successful AI and ML depend on clean, well-structured data. We architect environments that support automated data transformations, feature stores, model training, and governance, creating a strong foundation for advanced analytics at scale.

Improving Data Governance and Compliance

With regulations like GDPR, CCPA, and industry-specific standards tightening, data governance is no longer optional. We embed governance, lineage, and access control into your architecture so you can confidently manage risk while enabling responsible innovation.

Accelerating Mergers, Acquisitions or Reorgs

Rapid organisational change often leads to fragmented data environments. We design architectures that bring structure to chaos: Integrating systems, aligning models, and providing clarity during transitional periods.

Our approach

We're here to help

Our data architecture consultants work with you to design modern data architecture that supports performance, security, and compliance. From refining data processes to strengthening data governance, we help businesses build a future-ready foundation for your big data needs.

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Deep understanding

We get to the heart of your business, identifying challenges, goals, and opportunities to shape the right approach.

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Smart strategy

Using data, creativity, and industry insight, we craft tailored digital solutions that are practical, scalable, and built for impact.

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Seamless execution

From design to development, we bring ideas to life – optimising, refining, and making sure every solution delivers real results.

Committed to your success

Robust data architecture is the backbone of any modern data ecosystem. We design scalable, flexible frameworks that support your data strategy, enable efficient operations, and prepare you for future growth.

Our approach ensures that your data flows securely and efficiently between systems, users, and tools. From integrating legacy platforms to building cloud-native environments, we create architectures that unlock performance and simplify complexity.

Services include data modelling, platform design, storage and integration strategies, cloud architecture, pipeline development, and performance optimisation. We work across a range of technologies to design fit-for-purpose solutions that scale with your business.

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Let’s work together to build a data architecture that supports your vision and drives results.

Contact us today to explore how our data architecture services can support your digital transformation.

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What our client said

After thorough review of competing cloud and on-premise technologies, Syneos Health® chose to upgrade to IBM’s Netezza Performance Server for its seamless migration, excellent performance and cloud portability along with the included Cloud Pak capabilities around data federation, data virtualization and data science.

Chris Rodgers, Sr DBA, Adheris Health a Syneos Health company

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FAQs

Data architecture defines how your enterprise data is structured, stored, integrated, and accessed. It acts as the foundation for data-driven decision-making, enabling analytics, automation, governance, and regulatory compliance. Without it, data becomes fragmented, hard to trust, and costly to manage.

Yes, we specialise in data integration, ensuring your data warehouse, data lake, and data flow processes work seamlessly for better scalability and performance.

Strong data governance ensures your data architecture services meet compliance requirements, improve data quality, and enable secure, well-managed access to critical information.

We take a data strategy-driven approach, ensuring your data architecture supports your business objectives, data analytics capabilities, and long-term scalability.

Yes, our data architecture consultants can assess and refine existing data architecture solutions, optimising for efficiency, security, and cost-effectiveness.

Any industry that relies on data management, advanced analytics, or large-scale data processing can benefit from well-structured data architecture. Sectors like finance, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing all depend on secure, efficient, and scalable data systems to drive business success.

We’re platform-agnostic. Whether you’re fully cloud-native, operating a hybrid model, or working within on-prem constraints, we design architectures that are secure, scalable, and aligned to your infrastructure. We work with all major cloud platforms, including Azure, AWS, and GCP.

Yes. Our teams are used to integrating with in-house architects, engineers, analysts, and delivery teams. We’re here to augment your capability, not duplicate it, and ensure your architecture is embedded, adopted, and resilient.

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