One finance data & analytics platform on cloud with scalable architecture

About the client

Global pharmaceutical manufacturer operating across multiple business divisions and international markets.

The challenge

The client’s Finance division needed to establish a scalable enterprise data platform capable of supporting financial analytics, complex simulations, and future data-driven initiatives across multiple finance domains.

• Unknown final scope of data sources and consuming applications and projects at the outset
• A flexible architecture designed to scale beyond the first prioritized use case, EPIC, focused on foundational financial master data and supporting future analytics projects and applications
• Integration of heterogeneous financial systems with differing structures and refresh cycles
• Secure processing, storage, and consumption of sensitive financial data
• Support for multiple consumption patterns across analytical tools and project teams
• Standardization of ingestion, orchestration, and data-quality processes across the platform

The solution

UD4D helped design a scalable, high-level cloud-based architecture and address specific integration and data-consumption needs across projects.

• Design of a modular AWS-based architecture supporting data ingestion, processing, storage, and consumption
• Definition of integration, side-load, and consumption patterns tailored to individual Finance projects
• Security models across the full data lifecycle, with role-based access and separation of managed and self-service environments
• Orchestration patterns using Airflow and Matillion, with dependency management and cross-environment execution
• Redshift data layer structure enabling both governed and self-service analytics
• Alignment with governance and data-quality standards through Collibra and Collibra Data Quality
• Support for Dataiku-based modeling and Power BI reporting