Data, analytics and AI
Snowflake Consulting and Delivery
Waverton Consulting Group delivers Snowflake data platform engagements for Australian and New Zealand businesses, from initial architecture and migration from legacy warehouses through to performance optimisation, dbt transformation delivery and ongoing managed services. Our data engineers and architects work on production Snowflake environments across financial services, retail, healthcare and technology sectors.
Snowflake implementations that are not designed carefully accumulate cost and complexity quickly. Waverton approaches each engagement with the warehouse design decisions that matter from the start: clustering strategy, virtual warehouse sizing, data sharing architecture, role-based access control and the cost governance practices that prevent bill shock in production.
Platform design and migration
Waverton delivers Snowflake architecture and migration engagements, working from source system assessment through schema design, data migration, transformation rebuild and validation against the source platform. Migrations from Teradata, SQL Server, Oracle, Redshift and on-premises data warehouses are scoped and priced as fixed bid engagements where the scope is clear. We document assumptions openly and work through data quality issues that surface during migration rather than leaving them for the business to find after go-live.
dbt transformation delivery
dbt is the standard tool for SQL-based transformation on Snowflake, and Waverton delivers dbt projects covering model design, testing strategy, documentation, incremental load patterns and the CI/CD pipeline that makes dbt deployable reliably. We work alongside your data team or deliver the dbt project as a standalone engagement, with handover documentation and the patterns that let your team extend the transformation layer without being dependent on Waverton.
Optimisation and cost governance
Snowflake costs grow with usage, and without active management they grow in ways that do not map to business value. Waverton conducts Snowflake optimisation engagements covering warehouse sizing and auto-suspend configuration, query performance analysis, storage optimisation and the resource monitor configuration that prevents unexpected spend. For organisations with Snowflake spend that has grown beyond expectations, we provide a structured review and remediation programme.
Ongoing managed services
Waverton provides managed services for Snowflake environments covering platform administration, performance monitoring, user and role management, cost reporting, patch and release management and ongoing development. Managed services are structured with agreed SLAs and regular service reviews, providing operational continuity without requiring internal Snowflake expertise.
How to engage
Snowflake migrations, platform builds and dbt projects with defined scope suit fixed bid delivery. Ongoing data engineering, optimisation and enhancement work runs well as time and materials. Snowflake architects and dbt engineers can be embedded into your data team. For full operational ownership of the Snowflake environment, the managed service model provides defined service levels and a dedicated delivery team.
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