dbt Consulting & Development Services
From messy SQL scripts to tested, version-controlled data models.
STX Next builds dbt pipelines that your team can actually maintain:
- Full-stack data engineering: dbt + Airflow + Snowflake/Databricks + cloud infrastructure, all under one roof
- Every model ships with tests, documentation, and lineage tracking built into the DAG
- PoC-first approach: validate the architecture on real data before committing to a full build
- AWS Advanced Tier Partner, ISO 27001 certification and production experience across regulated industries

Production-grade dbt implementations backed by 500+ data, AI/ML, and software engineers with 20 years of Python heritage.
Consolidate Data from Dozens of Source Systems into One Trusted Layer
Most companies pull data from 10–30+ tools: CRMs, ERPs, ad platforms, payment processors, IoT sensors, SaaS APIs. Each one has its own schema, naming conventions, and update cadence. A well-structured dbt project standardizes all of these into a single staging layer, applies consistent business definitions (what counts as "revenue," what counts as "active user"), and produces reporting marts that everyone in the company trusts. No more conflicting numbers between departments.
Replace Manual Excel Reconciliation with Automated, Tested Pipelines
Finance and operations teams often spend hours per day manually matching records across systems: trade data vs. custodian records, invoices vs. purchase orders, shipment logs vs. billing. dbt turns this into a scheduled pipeline that runs matching logic, flags exceptions, and delivers a clean reconciliation report before the team starts their day. Built-in tests catch data gaps and mismatches automatically, so analysts spend their time investigating real issues instead of hunting for missing rows.
Build Regulatory and Compliance Reporting You Can Actually Audit
When regulators ask how a number was calculated, you need a clear answer. dbt's built-in lineage tracking shows exactly which source tables, transformations, and business rules produced each metric. Combined with source freshness monitoring, schema tests, and version-controlled SQL, this gives compliance teams a full audit trail from raw data to final report. Every change to the transformation logic is tracked in Git with a timestamp and author.
Normalize Multi-Platform Marketing and Sales Data
Companies running campaigns across Google Ads, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, and programmatic DSPs end up with fragmented performance data: different attribution windows, different metric definitions, different naming conventions for the same campaign. dbt can normalize all of these into a unified model with consistent attribution logic, standardized campaign taxonomies, and a single source of truth that feeds dashboards, attribution models, and budget allocation tools.
Move from Legacy ETL to a Modern, Maintainable Transformation Layer
Organizations stuck on Informatica, Talend, SSIS, or thousands of lines of undocumented stored procedures face a real problem: nobody fully understands what the transformations do, testing is manual or nonexistent, and making changes is risky. Migrating to dbt means every transformation is version-controlled SQL, every model has explicit tests, and the full dependency graph is visible in the DAG. New team members can read the code and understand the pipeline in days instead of months.
Scale Your Data Models Without Scaling Your Warehouse Bill
As data volume grows, naive full-table refreshes become expensive and slow. dbt's incremental materializations process only new or changed records, which can cut warehouse compute costs by 80%+ for high-volume tables. Combined with materialization strategy tuning (views for lightweight lookups, tables for heavy aggregations, ephemeral models for intermediate logic), a well-optimized dbt project keeps query performance high and costs predictable.
Our Services
dbt Project Design & Architecture
Most failed dbt projects share the same root cause: no upfront architecture. STX Next starts every engagement with a 1–2 week assessment of your existing SQL, warehouse structure, and reporting needs. The deliverable is a documented dbt project structure (staging, intermediate, and mart layers), naming conventions, a testing strategy, and a deployment plan tailored to your warehouse platform.
dbt Migration & Refactoring
Moving from legacy SQL scripts, stored procedures, or Informatica/Talend pipelines to dbt is more than a syntax change. STX Next maps your existing transformation logic, identifies redundancies, and rebuilds it as modular, tested dbt models. Typical migrations run 8–16 weeks depending on the number of source systems and complexity of business logic.
dbt Pipeline Development
STX Next builds production dbt projects from scratch or extends existing ones. This includes writing models, macros, and custom tests, configuring incremental materializations, setting up source freshness checks, and integrating dbt into your orchestration layer (Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect). Every model ships with schema tests and auto-generated documentation.
dbt Cloud Setup & Administration
For teams choosing dbt Cloud over dbt Core, STX Next handles environment configuration, job scheduling, CI/CD integration with your Git provider, and RBAC setup. This includes configuring Slim CI for pull request testing, setting up notification channels, and establishing environment-specific deployment workflows.
Ongoing dbt Support & Optimization
After go-live, STX Next provides ongoing model optimization (query performance tuning, materialization strategy adjustments), test coverage expansion, and on-call support for pipeline failures. Typical support retainers include monthly performance reviews and quarterly architecture audits.
Projects We've Delivered
A Global Cybersecurity Company
Built a consolidated data platform serving as a single source of truth for 100+ internal users, pulling together cybersecurity data from multiple systems.

Man Group
Built 16 applications for portfolio managers, including data catalogs and dashboards for investment performance.

EssenceMediacom
AI-powered media management platform that consolidates campaign data across sources, similar to multi-platform marketing data normalization.
Chemical Industry
Processed tens of billions of sensor records from two factories to build predictive maintenance models that reduced unplanned downtime by 20%.

Linde
LLM-powered knowledge retrieval tool using RAG on Azure for a global industrial gases company. Demonstrates delivery of data-intensive solutions at enterprise scale.

Hemiko
Achieved 1,000% performance improvement and 40% cloud cost reduction through DevOps and infrastructure optimization.
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