Case Study4 min read
Higher Education & Data Engineering

Modernising ETL workflows
for scalability and compliance.

Migrated ETL workloads to a cloud data platform and introduced Airflow and dbt for orchestration and automated data quality validation — replacing manual, inconsistent processes with predictable, auditable pipelines.

Industry
Higher Education
Capability
Data Engineering · Cloud Platform
Stack
Cloud DW · dbt · Airflow
ETL · dbt · Airflow · Cloud Platform
Auto
Standardised, automated ETL with minimal manual intervention
CI
Predictable dev-to-prod pipeline promotion via CI gates
↑
Data quality issues caught upstream before reaching reporting layers
✓
Operational lineage logs improve compliance visibility

Manual ETL limited scale, slowed insight, and obscured lineage.

Manual, inconsistent ETL processes limited scalability and timely insights. Teams lacked a standardised pipeline promotion process and had no visibility into data lineage or failures — making compliance reporting and incident response slow and uncertain.

Our approach

Cloud-native orchestration with quality and lineage built in.

Migrated ETL workloads to a cloud data platform and introduced Airflow and dbt for orchestration and automated data quality validation — with CI gates governing promotion from development to production.

The Technology

A modern, auditable data engineering platform.

Cloud data warehouse anchoring the platform; Airflow orchestrating workloads; dbt enforcing quality and lineage. Operational logs and lineage give teams a clear view of what changed and when.

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Outcomes

From manual ETL to a controlled, observable platform.

Auto

Standardised, automated ETL

Pipelines run consistently with minimal manual touch — failures surfaced automatically for quick remediation.

CI

Predictable releases

New pipelines promote dev to prod using a standard checklist and CI gates.

↑

Upstream data quality

Issues caught at ingest rather than discovered in reports.

✓

Compliance visibility

Operational logs and lineage give teams a clear view of what changed and when.

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