§ DSE × Databricks·partner landing

A senior, certified Databricks partner.

We turn the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform into production data and AI systems, with the governance and rigor that regulated and federal work demands. Find us through the Databricks partner directory and you reach a small firm of senior practitioners, not a staffing pyramid. We build, ship, and hand over production systems on Databricks, then leave a runbook a third party can operate.

Member, Databricks C&SI Partner Program CMMC-aware NAICS 541330 / 541511 / 541512 / 541519
Book a 30-minute scoping call See what we deliver → found us through Databricks? tell us what you're building

A deliberately small, senior-only partner. That is the point.

DSE is a partner in the Databricks Consulting and Systems Integrator Partner Program. For clients who do not need a thousand-person systems integrator, we are the senior alternative: principals on your problem, fixed fees, and full IP transfer. The large Global Elite integrators win the logo, then staff your project with junior consultants learning on your budget. We do the opposite. The person who scopes your work is the person who builds it.

View our Databricks Partner Directory listing verify the partnership on databricks.com
48h
From a 30-minute scoping call to a written scope with deliverables, milestones, and a fixed fee. No time-and-materials, no scope discovered on your dime.
§ Certified on the platform·certification is the floor, not the headline

Our work is led by a principal holding the Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional and Databricks Certified Machine Learning Associate credentials, alongside an AWS Solutions Architect certification for multi-cloud delivery. What matters is production systems that run after we leave.

§ What we deliver on Databricks·production systems, handed over
Lakehouse
Lakehouse Implementation & Architecture

End-to-end Lakehouse builds on Delta Lake, structured with a medallion (bronze, silver, gold) architecture. Reliable, governed data from ingestion through analytics and AI.

Pipelines
Data Engineering & Pipeline Modernization

ETL and ELT modernization: migrating legacy warehouses and brittle pipelines onto Databricks Workflows and Databricks declarative pipelines. Tested, monitored, and built to scale, with CI gates and observability from day one.

Governance
Unity Catalog Governance & Security

Centralized data governance, lineage, and fine-grained access control through Unity Catalog. This is where our security and IAM discipline shows: least-privilege access, auditable lineage, and a governance posture that holds up under a compliance review.

MLOps
Machine Learning & MLOps

Model development and production MLOps with MLflow: experiment tracking, model registry, deployment, and the eval discipline that keeps models honest after launch.

Generative AI
Generative AI on Databricks

RAG and agentic systems built on Mosaic AI: vector search, model serving, and retrieval over governed enterprise data, with evaluation harnesses rather than vibes.

Migration
Migration to Databricks

Moving off legacy on-premises warehouses and aging cloud platforms onto the Data Intelligence Platform, with a phased plan that sequences risk and protects production the whole way.

Cost & performance
Cost & Performance Optimization

Compute and Databricks SQL warehouse tuning, workload right-sizing, and cost governance for teams whose Databricks spend has outrun their controls.

Our differentiator
Regulated & Federal Delivery

Our principal has delivered Databricks in regulated financial services and federal environments, where authority-to-operate (ATO) documentation under the NIST Risk Management Framework, CMMC-aware delivery, and provable data governance are not optional. We bring that rigor to commercial clients who need it and to public-sector buyers who require it.

§ Who we serve·three buyers, one bench
Mid-market
Senior delivery, no SI overhead
Companies modernizing data infrastructure or standing up AI on Databricks who want senior delivery without a large integrator's leverage model.
Federal & public sector
Delivered under FAR and the RMF
Buyers who need Databricks delivered under a clock. SAM.gov registered, CMMC-aware, clearance-capable.
Partners & agencies
Certified overflow bench
Firms that need certified senior Databricks delivery capacity under their own brand. We work white-label as an overflow bench.
§ How we engage·scope, plan, build, hand off
01 · Scope
A 30-minute call
Then a written scope with deliverables, milestones, and a fixed fee inside 48 hours.
Free · no pitch
02 · Plan
Architecture & governance
An architecture diagram, governance model, and delivery plan, demoed end of week one.
fixed fee
03 · Build
Weekly demos
A written decision log, CI and observability before features. No surprises at the end.
fixed scope
04 · Hand off
Full IP transfer
Code, documentation, a runbook, and a 30-day support window. Built to run without us.
optional retainer
§ Why a senior boutique Databricks partner·the receipts

Governance native, not bolted on.

Senior-only bench. The person who scopes your work is the person who builds it.

Fixed-fee, fixed-scope. Quoted inside 48 hours of a scoping call. No time-and-materials, no scope discovered on your dime.

Full IP transfer. Code, documentation, runbook, and a 30-day support window. Built to run without us.

Governance from the first commit. Unity Catalog, lineage, and least-privilege from day one, because that is how regulated work has to be done. Federal and regulated experience is framed as capability and principal experience, never as named client work.

Found us through Databricks? Tell us what you're building.

We will scope it and send a fixed-fee quote within 48 hours. The senior people who scope your work are the people who do it, and they hand you a runbook when it is done.

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