Data platform assessment
Map what exists, find the brittle joins and establish a realistic route from scattered systems to a dependable platform.
DATA PLATFORMS / INTEGRATIONS / AUTOMATION
Make the data work.
Keep it working.
Businesses run on manual processes, and growth turns workarounds into hidden factories. Data Squid Solutions is here to help
01 / WHAT WE DO
Practical engineering for businesses whose data has become too important to remain improvised.
Not every organisation needs a grand transformation programme. Sometimes it needs a pipeline that stops falling over, systems that finally speak to each other, and numbers people can trust.
02 / SERVICES
Useful work, without the platform theatre.
Pipeline rescue
Stabilise unreliable ingestion and transformation processes with monitoring, retries, validation and clear ownership.
API & systems integration
Connect internal tools, suppliers and third-party services using maintainable, well-observed integrations.
Workflow automation
Replace repetitive operational work with pragmatic automation using Python, Functions, Power Automate and n8n.
Trusted reporting foundations
Build clean warehouse models, transformation layers and semantic foundations that keep reports consistent.
Fractional technical leadership
Hands-on direction for teams that need architecture, priorities and delivery without hiring a full data leadership layer.
03 / APPROACH
Built to survive contact with the real business.
Practical before fashionable.
Use the technology that solves the problem cleanly. No lakehouse-shaped monument where a sturdy pipeline will do.
Observable by default.
Failures should announce themselves. Data quality, monitoring and recovery belong in the design, not in a future tidy-up.
Maintainable after handover.
Clear models, documentation and sensible boundaries so the system remains useful when the original builder is not in the room.
04 / SELECTED WORK
Systems built for awkward, valuable problems.
Examples are anonymised to protect employer and commercial confidentiality.
From fragmented operational systems to one trusted analytical platform
Designed and delivered a layered platform spanning ingestion, warehouse modelling, transformation and reporting. The resulting foundation supports more than 50 reports and automated decision processes.
- 50+reports and processes
- Layeredreusable architecture
- Productionmonitoring and recovery
Pricing automation at operating scale
Built a rules-led pricing system that converts complex commercial logic into repeatable automated decisions, with validation and operational safeguards around the process.
- 25,000automated pricing rules
- Multipleproducts and markets
- Fastercommercial response
Integrations that keep operating after the demonstration
Developed API-led integrations and workflow automations across operational and analytical processes, with explicit retry behaviour, failure handling and visible monitoring.
- API-ledsystem connections
- Visiblefailure handling
- Lessmanual intervention
05 / ABOUT
Senior engineering breadth, without the consultancy fog.
Data Squid Solutions is an independent consultancy led by Tristram Cox, a hands-on Senior Data Engineer and Data Solutions Architect based in Huddersfield.
His work spans SQL and Python engineering, Azure data platforms, Airflow, dbt, APIs, warehouse modelling, automation and the awkward translation layer between commercial problems and working systems.
The aim is simple: leave behind something useful, understandable and sturdier than what was there before.
06 / CONTACT
Got a data problem with too many tentacles?
Share the untidy version. We can work out whether it needs a repair, an integration, a platform plan, or simply a clearer pair of eyes.