Services & rates
Hands-on senior data engineering on Databricks, dbt, Snowflake, and Dagster. Scoped in writing, built in your repo and your cloud, and handed off with tests, docs, and a walkthrough.
Lakehouse
Databricks
Delta, Unity Catalog, medallion tiers.
Transform
dbt
Tested, documented models with CI.
Warehouse
Snowflake
Platforms, migrations, cost control.
Orchestrate
Dagster
Asset-based scheduling and observability.
What we do
Pick one, or start with an assessment and let the findings set the scope.
Bronze, silver, and gold tiers on Delta Lake — ingestion, incremental processing, and governance in Unity Catalog. New builds or a cleanup of what's already there.
Deliverables
Tiered lakehouse with lineage · Unity Catalog permissions and data classification · dbt-modeled silver and gold · Workflows with CI/CD and alerting
Databricks · Delta Lake · Unity Catalog · dbt
Green-field dbt projects, or rescues of projects that have grown past their structure. Staging-to-marts layering, tests that catch real problems, and docs people actually read.
Deliverables
Layered project with naming and style guide · Source, unit, and data tests · Slim CI on pull requests · Exposures and docs site
dbt Core · dbt Cloud · SQL · CI/CD
Account design, role-based access, warehouse sizing and cost controls, and migrations from legacy warehouses. Every schema change runs through schemachange — versioned, tested, repeatable.
Deliverables
Environment and RBAC design · schemachange CI/CD pipeline · Migration plan and cut-over · Cost dashboards and resource monitors
Snowflake · schemachange · RBAC · FinOps
Software-defined assets across dbt, Databricks, and Snowflake, with partitions, sensors, and alerting — so the pipeline is observable, not just scheduled. Moves from cron and Airflow included.
Deliverables
Asset graph with dbt and warehouse integrations · Partitioned backfills · Freshness checks and alert routing · Deployment on Dagster+ or self-hosted
Dagster · dbt · Databricks · Snowflake
A fixed-scope, two-week review of an existing stack: reliability, cost, modeling, security, and orchestration. You get a written report and a prioritized roadmap you can act on with us or without us.
Deliverables
Findings report · Cost and reliability baseline · Prioritized 90-day roadmap · Read-out session with your team
Fixed price from $10k · 2 weeks · Remote
Rates & engagement
Start with a fixed-price assessment, or bring us in by the week or the hour. Senior engineering on every engagement — no bench, no hand-off to a junior team after the sale.
Platform Assessment
from $10k
Fixed price · 2 weeks · USD
A senior review of your existing stack — reliability, cost, modeling, security, orchestration — with a written report and a prioritized 90-day roadmap. The usual starting point.
Retainer
2–4 days/ week
Monthly · quoted after discovery
A standing block of senior capacity each week for builds and migrations. Priority scheduling, one predictable invoice, 30-day notice either way.
Hourly
Quotedon request
Senior rate · 15-minute increments
Advisory, code review, and short builds. Invoiced weekly, cancel any time.
Hourly and retainer rates are shared after a 30-minute scoping call; government and multi-month engagements are priced on request. Work happens in your repositories and your cloud accounts — you keep everything, and there's nothing to migrate off of when we're done.
How we work
01
A 30-minute call, then a written scope, estimate, and timeline within a few business days.
02
Code lands in your repo from day one. Weekly demos, CI from the first pull request, no surprises.
03
Runbooks, docs, and a walkthrough with your team. Optional retainer if you want us on call.
Ready to scope it?