Data Engineering Services
Data Infrastructure That
Actually Works
- ISO 27001 Certified
- ISO 22301 Certified
- DORA Aligned
- GDPR Compliant
- Start in 7–10 days
- From €5–6k/mo
HST Solutions delivers enterprise data engineering services across Ireland, the UK, and Europe, building reliable pipelines, modern warehouses, real-time streaming, and BI platforms for regulated industries including financial services and insurance. ISO 27001 certified since 2007.
Why teams bring us in
- Data infrastructure is fragile
- Senior engineers are impossible to hire
- Consultancies deliver decks, not code
- Contractors work solo with no support
You need engineers who ship production data systems —
backed by the support structure that makes them effective.
Data Engineering Services
| Service | What You Get | Best For |
|---|---|---|
Data Pipeline Engineering
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| Teams with unreliable pipelines or manual data processes |
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Data Warehouse Modernisation
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| Enterprises with legacy warehouses or rising licensing costs |
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Real-Time Streaming
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| Companies needing real-time data, not overnight batch |
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Business Intelligence
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| Organisations where nobody trusts the dashboards |
What is Data Engineering?
Data engineering is the discipline of designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure that enables organisations to collect, store, transform, and analyse data at scale. Data engineers build the pipelines, warehouses, lakes, and streaming systems that power analytics, machine learning, and business operations.
Modern data engineering uses cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), transformation tools (dbt, Spark), orchestration systems (Airflow, Prefect), and streaming technologies (Kafka, Kinesis). The goal is reliable, scalable, governed data infrastructure not just data that exists, but data people can trust.
HST provides senior data engineers who build production-grade data platforms not POCs that demo well but fail under load. Every engineer comes backed by PM, architecture reviews, and DevOps support.
Technology Stack
We don't push a specific stack. We work with what you have and recommend based on your actual requirements.
Proven With Enterprise Clients
Global fund governance, €1.3T+ assets under management
- Migrated legacy SQL Server to AWS data lake
- Replaced SSIS with modern ELT (dbt, Airflow)
- Consolidated reporting into Power BI
- Full regulatory compliance for Central Bank inspections
Insurtech processing millions of partner transactions
- Kafka streaming architecture with zero latency impact
- Databricks bronze/silver/gold medallion architecture
- Real-time dashboards for partner operations
- Automated data quality and schema detection
Sports technology, acquired by Sony
- Mobile and backend platform engineering
- Real-time GPS data processing at scale
- AWS infrastructure supporting 500+ elite teams
How We Deliver Data Engineering
Managed Engineers, Not Projects
working in your repos, using your tools.
They're backed by:
- Project Manager
- Scope
- Comms
- Weekly status
- Stakeholder management
- Architecture Reviews
- 2h/week design reviews
- Data model optimisation
- DevOps Assist
- CI/CD
- Infrastructure
- Monitoring
- Testing
One monthly price. One embedded seat. A full bench behind it.
Pricing
Precision Pod
€5–6k/month One engineer
- 1 senior data engineer
- Embedded in your team PM
- Architecture
- DevOps included Best for: Focused work — single pipeline, one domain
Pair Pod
€10–11k/month Two engineers
- 2 engineers working together PM
- Architecture
- DevOps included Best for: Complex domains
- Parallel workstreams
Mini-Team
€15–16k/month Three engineers
- 3 engineers with mixed specialities PM
- Architecture
- DevOps included Best for: Full platform builds
- Aggressive timelines
- All plans include
Weekly demos, architecture reviews, SLAs, ISO 27001 certified, full IP assignment.
Why Enterprises Choose HST
| Big 4 / Consultancies | Solo Contractors | Offshore Teams |
 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data engineering depth | Generic consultants | Variable | Variable | Waystone, Companjon production systems |
| Support structure | Account managers | Solo, no backup | Time zone gaps | Engineer + PM + Architecture |
| Accountability | Change requests | Walks away | Communication lag | SLAs, ISO 27001, IP assignment |
| Domain expertise | Learn your business on your dime | Limited | None | Financial services, insurance built in |
| Speed to start | 8-12 weeks | Available | 2-4 weeks | 7-10 days |
| Pricing | €200k+ projects | Hourly | Low but risky | €5-6k/mo fixed |
Regulatory & Compliance Experience
| Regulation | Our Experience |
|---|---|
| DORA |
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| GDPR |
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| Central Bank of Ireland |
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| AIFMD / UCITS |
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| Solvency II |
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We’re ISO 27001 and ISO 22301 certified, DORA aligned, and GDPR compliant
the standards your regulators expect from you and your technology suppliers.
How We Work
Embed
Assess & Plan
Build
Scale or Hand Off
Case Study
Data Platform Modernisation — Waystone
- Challenge
- Waystone's legacy SQL Server estate couldn't scale with growing fund volumes.
- Nightly SSIS jobs were fragile, documentation was sparse, and the team spent more time firefighting than building.
- What We Built
- Migrated core holdings and risk data to AWS S3/Iceberg data lake
- Implemented Glue, DMS, and CDC for automated data pipelines
- Deployed Athena for analyst querying with Lake Formation governance
- Replaced fragile SSIS packages with monitored, tested Glue jobs
- Created comprehensive runbooks for operations team
- Result
- Nightly jobs moved from fragile SSIS to monitored pipelines.
- Data consumers now build on a documented, versioned lake instead of ad-hoc exports. 100TB+ processed daily.
Risk & Oversight Reporting — Waystone
- Challenge
- Risk reporting (RiskCore) and oversight tracking (OpsCore) were siloed.
- IMO reporting required manual consolidation from multiple sources. Committee packs took days to prepare.
- What We Built
- Stabilised RiskCore holdings templating and OpsCore task/oversight systems
- Consolidated IMO reporting into Power BI with normalised multi-source data
- Enforced access control, SLAs, and audit trails
- Single trusted data layer for committee and regulatory packs
- Result
- Committee and regulatory packs generated from a single trusted layer with full audit trails.
- Manual consolidation eliminated.
Proof that Reduces Risk
Frequently asked questions
What's the difference between data engineering and data science?
Data engineering builds the infrastructure — pipelines, warehouses, data quality. Data science builds models and insights on top of that infrastructure. Without good data engineering, data science projects fail because the data isn’t reliable, accessible, or clean. We focus on data engineering; we partner with data science teams rather than replace them.
Do you work with our existing tools?
Yes. We mirror your stack. If you’re on Azure with Databricks, we work in Azure with Databricks. We don’t force technology changes that add risk — we strengthen what you have. When modernisation makes sense (e.g., SSIS → Airflow), we do it incrementally and prove value before expanding scope.
How fast can you start?
7–10 business days from signed agreement to engineer embedded in your team. We maintain a bench of available senior engineers specifically so we can start quickly.
What if we need different specialities?
Our pricing tiers allow mixed specialities. A Pair Pod could be one data engineer + one BI engineer. A Mini-Team could be two data engineers + one streaming specialist. We flex based on your needs and can adjust month-to-month.
What about ongoing support and maintenance?
We can provide ongoing support or help you bring operations in-house. For ongoing support, we document runbooks, set up monitoring, and provide engineering hours for maintenance and incidents. For handoff, we train your team, document everything, and stay available for consultation.
Give us 20 minutes. We'll show you what reliable data infrastructure looks like.
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