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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