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Pan-European retail group

Greenfield cloud data platform

Replaced fragmented on-prem reporting with a governed Snowflake estate and dbt-led modeling so finance and merchandising share one source of truth.

The retailer’s estate had grown through acquisitions — overlapping warehouses, inconsistent KPIs, and no single place to reconcile finance with store operations. We stood up a governed cloud platform with domain ownership so new regions could onboard without rewriting everything from scratch.

How we approached it

Landing zone & domains

Accounts, networking, and IAM structured around merchandising, finance, and supply-chain data products with clear boundaries.

Curated warehouse layers

Raw → staging → marts in Snowflake with dbt tests on business keys, SCD patterns where needed, and documentation in-repo.

Access & audit

Role-based access with row policies for markets; lineage from BI tools to source for controls your risk team can evidence.

What we delivered

Outcomes

Representative stack

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