Strategic Advisory Practice

Senior IT leadership for growing businesses, without the full-time hire

Productized advisory for organizations of 10 to 250+ employees — a predictable monthly retainer, a defined block of senior consulting hours, and a five-tier ladder that lets you start where you are and step up only when the work calls for it. Every engagement is led by a principal consultant, never a junior analyst.

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  • Senior-led, everytime
  • Vendor-neutral by design
  • One point of contact
  • Named solutions architect
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Running inside regulated estates

  • Halden Bank
  • Verity Health
  • Northwind Freight
  • Copperline Energy
  • Meridian Rail
  • Ferro Group
  • Arcadia Care
  • Lumen Retail

Practice overview

Senior IT leadership, sized for growing businesses

The same five-tier advisory model runs across every engagement — a predictable monthly retainer, senior consultant hours, and a clear line from your first diagnostic to compliance-ready governance.

Foundation & efficiency

Provisioned per organisation at contract start. The region is fixed for the life of the workspace.

Single-tenant deployment

A dedicated VPC, dedicated warehouse credentials and a dedicated metadata store. No customer shares a compute node at query time.

Enterprise

Customer-managed keys

Bring your own KMS key. Revoking it halts processing within 60 seconds and leaves stored metadata unreadable.

Enterprise

Regional pinning

Pin the organisation to eu-west-1, eu-central-1, us-east-1 or ap-southeast-2. Neither metadata nor derived lineage crosses that boundary.

Available

Transformation & scale

Enforced across the whole organisation once your identity provider is connected, not workspace by workspace.

SAML and SCIM

Any SAML 2.0 or OIDC provider with SCIM 2.0 push. A leaver in your directory loses Northlane access inside 60 seconds.

Available

Audit stream to your SIEM

Every read, permission change and export, retained 400 days and streamed to Splunk, Chronicle or an S3 bucket you own.

Enterprise

Evidence on request

SOC 2 Type II report, ISO 27001 certificate, penetration test summary and the sub-processor register, released under NDA.

Current

Leadership & assurance

Enforced across the whole organisation once your identity provider is connected, not workspace by workspace.

SAML and SCIM

Any SAML 2.0 or OIDC provider with SCIM 2.0 push. A leaver in your directory loses Northlane access inside 60 seconds.

Available

Audit stream to your SIEM

Every read, permission change and export, retained 400 days and streamed to Splunk, Chronicle or an S3 bucket you own.

Enterprise

Evidence on request

SOC 2 Type II report, ISO 27001 certificate, penetration test summary and the sub-processor register, released under NDA.

Current

Descriptions summarise the Enterprise production environment as of this quarter. The SOC 2 Type II report and the security addendum on your order form are the governing documents; nothing on this page amends a signed agreement.

Read the full security page

Administration and scale

Run two hundred teams on one control plane without a spreadsheet of exceptions

Policy applies at the organisation level, ownership is delegated down, and quotas stop one backfill from starving everybody else.

Organisation hierarchy

Group workspaces by business unit or region, apply policy at any level, and let a domain owner administer their own branch without seeing the rest.

Delegated administration

Nine built-in roles plus custom roles scoped to a workspace, a project or a single column. Every grant is approved, signed and retained.

Quotas and cost guardrails

Per-team warehouse credit budgets with hard stops. A runaway backfill is queued and flagged to its owner rather than billed.

Change management

Policy edits go through review, land in the audit stream, and can be rolled back to any state in the last 400 days.

Enterprise

Private networking

PrivateLink, VPC peering or an IP-allowlisted egress gateway. Your warehouse never needs a public endpoint.

Migration tooling

Import existing dbt projects, Airflow DAGs and third-party monitors, then run both systems side by side until you sign off the cutover.

See the migration guide
See the full capability list

Every capability above is included in the Enterprise licence — none of it is a paid add-on.

Deployment

Three ways to run it, one way to govern it

Every deployment model shares the same control plane, the same policy engine and the same audit stream. What changes is where the metadata store sits and who holds the keys — so procurement and platform can pick independently of the feature set.

  • Northlane Cloud Multi-tenant, region-pinned, provisioned in an afternoon. Schema and object-storage isolation per tenant, enforced at the connection layer.
  • Single-tenant A dedicated VPC in the region you choose, with your own KMS key and a maintenance window you approve before every upgrade.
  • Your own account Northlane deployed into your AWS or Azure subscription via Terraform. Metadata never leaves your network boundary.
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Enterprise rollouts, last twelve months

  • 34 days Contract to first governed pipeline Median across 26 enterprise rollouts, two of them single-tenant builds.
  • 0 Downtime windows required Connection changes and platform upgrades land without pausing pipelines.
  • 99.99% Contractual uptime, met every quarter since 2023 Measured on the control-plane API and the alerting path, published monthly.

Enterprise proof

Three regulated estates, migrated without a freeze window

Each rollout below crossed at least two regions and a formal security review. The numbers are the customer's own, measured 90 days after cutover.

A risk and data governance team reviewing controls together in an open-plan office

Halden Bank

40,000 tables under policy

Banking 9,400 employees

Eleven regional warehouses moved onto one policy engine in a single-tenant deployment, with the regulator briefed before the first sync ran.

  • 40,000 tables under column-level policy
  • 11 to 1 governance tools consolidated
  • 6 weeks contract to production
Read the story about Halden Bank
Two platform engineers pairing at a workstation during a migration

Healthcare 18,000 employees

PHI pinned to three regions

Residency rules that used to live in a spreadsheet are now enforced by the platform, with an audit stream the compliance office queries directly.

Verity Health Read the story about Verity Health
An operations team standing around a shared screen at a morning review

Logistics 6,200 employees

$1.9m warehouse spend recovered

Per-team credit budgets replaced a quarterly cost review, and the finance team stopped chasing owners for unattributed compute.

Northwind Freight Read the story about Northwind Freight

Engage

Bring us your budget cycle and your biggest technology headache

Every conversation starts with a real assessment, not a pitch. Tell us your organization's size, what's driving the timeline, and when your board or leadership team needs an answer.  You'll get back a recommended starting tier, a written scope, and pricing — no obligation attached.

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Warehouses, regions, headcount and the deadline. That is enough for us to scope it properly.

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