Data engineering services for actionable insights
Data Engineering
Leverage the data at your fingertips for increased business value with data architecture and engineering and analytics.
How we help
Data Science Centre of Excellence
Build modern data platforms, enable real-time insights, and scale advanced analytics with architecture and pipelines designed for trust, agility, and business value. From strategy to implementation, we help you reduce complexity, improve data quality, and generate measurable impact.
Our Data Science Centre of Excellence helps you unlock greater value from your data – combining best practices in architecture, engineering, analytics, and AI/ML to identify opportunities for growth, innovation, and efficiency. By leveraging cloud technologies and exploring external data sources, we work with you to build intelligent, forward-looking platforms that power real business outcomes.
Why it works
Core competencies putting you one step ahead
Applied AI that works for your business
From intelligent search and document processing to fraud prevention and virtual agents, we build AI and ML solutions that are tailored to your use case. Whether it’s analysing imagery, streamlining operations, or uncovering deeper insights, our solutions are designed to add measurable impact.
MLOps for long-term impact
Our end-to-end MLOps approach means we don’t just develop AI models, we help you integrate, monitor and scale them in production. From proof of concept to optimisation, we ensure your models remain relevant, efficient and aligned with your changing business needs.
How it's done
The building blocks of enterprise-grade data systems
The foundations of meaningful data
Data architecture
A strong data capability starts with a clear, scalable architecture. We define the structures, standards and governance required to ensure your data environment is secure, compliant, future-ready and able to support advanced use cases. This includes cloud platform setup, data modelling, lineage, integration patterns, and the foundational frameworks that keep everything consistent and reliable.
Data engineering
With the architecture in place, our engineers design and implement the pipelines that move, transform and prepare data for use across your business. We build automated, high-performance data flows using services like AWS Glue, Redshift, Azure Data Factory and SQL warehouses. The result: cleaner data, reduced manual effort, lower complexity, and faster access to the information your teams depend on.
Data analytics
Once your data is structured and flowing smoothly, we enable meaningful insight through analytics, reporting and AI-driven intelligence. Whether through Power BI, Quicksight, SageMaker or Cognitive Services, we help you surface real-time information, discover patterns, and support smarter decision-making across the organisation. It’s how your data becomes a competitive advantage — not just a resource.
AI Search Tool
Great product design balances user needs with business goals, creating experiences that are intuitive, accessible, and built to scale. It’s about more than just how it looks; it’s how it works, how it feels, and how effectively it solves the right problem. Good design removes friction, guides users effortlessly, and delivers measurable value from first interaction to long-term adoption. See how we’ve achieved this in the case studies below.
Benefits
BBD’s AI search tool
From data to insight
Turns information from any source, structured or unstructured, into useable, searchable knowledge for your business.
No more information silos
Eliminated the need to manually centralise internal knowledge across teams, platforms or locations.
Support for remote and distributed teams
Ensures critical information is always accessible, no matter where your teams are based or how they work.
Modular and scalable
Built on reusable components, the tool can be adapted and extended across multiple business use cases.
Smarter decision-making
Empowers your people with the right information at the right time, directly within their workflows.
Faster onboarding, lower training costs
Reduces reliance on manual training by providing context-rich knowledge at the point of need.
Natural language, accurate results
Uses an adaptive lexicon and intelligent search logic to understand and return results in plain language – no jargon required.
Advanced analytics expert team
Our close collaboration with Ilion Analytics, a fellow BBD group company, gives you access to a powerful blend of advanced analytics, machine learning, and deep engineering capability – all in one team. By combining data expertise with delivery excellence, we help you move faster from insight to action. The result? Smarter decisions, reduced complexity, and solutions that drive measurable business value.
See it in action
Turn vision into value
Related Expertise
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Software development
Transform your digital portfolio with expert engineering capabilities that ensure you drive continuous technological excellence and outpace your competitors.
User Experience and Product Design
Improve digital experiences for customers with meaningful UX and UI that is based on extensive user research, proven human-centric design principles and your intended customer experience.
Cloud
Migrate, modernise and manage your cloud landscape with secure, reliable and scalable solutions. Our certified professionals work across the Azure, AWS and Google Cloud platforms.
Packaged Testing
Test smarter, move faster, and reduce risk with quality engineered into every stage of delivery. From strategy to automation, our packaged testing services improve stability, increase coverage, and help you release with confidence.
Artificial Intelligence
Turn AI into real business impact with practical solutions that accelerate work, cut complexity, and unlock value through search, automation, analytics, and applied learning.
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Marius Maree
Head of Data Engineering
Whether you’re building pipelines or refining governance, we’ll help you create reliable, high-quality data foundations you can trust to power smarter decisions.