Consulting, Coaching & Transformation

Get DataOps Right — with the People Who Invented It

From hands-on coaching to full transformation programs. Our experts work alongside your team to implement DataOps practices, automate workflows, and drive lasting change.

DataOps Consulting, Coaching, and Transformation

To help you realize the benefits of DataOps, we offer exactly what you and your organization need to succeed.

Key points

  • Coaching happens inside your pipelines and your toolchain, not in a workshop room — the team learns on the systems it has to maintain.
  • DataKitchen wrote the DataOps Manifesto and the DataOps Cookbook, so the practices come from the people who defined them.
  • Engagements start small and iterate: get one process working, measure it, then widen. Nothing waits on an organisation-wide rollout.
  • The goal is that your team no longer needs us. Capability transfer is the deliverable, not a permanent dependency.
  • Works alongside whatever you already run — Airflow, dbt, Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift — rather than requiring a replatform.

What We Offer

Our services can include one or all of the following:

  • Consulting
  • Coaching
  • Workshops and Training
  • Agile Coaching for Data
  • Planning
  • Analyzing Metrics
  • Establishing a Metrics Program
  • Custom Training
  • Writing Tests
  • Profiling Data
  • Identifying Data Anomalies
  • Creating a Quality Dashboard
  • Data Architecture and Design
  • How to Automate Data Governance
  • Project Management
  • Reassessments

DataKitchen's DataOps Workshops

The workshops we offer present a topic and then facilitate discussions to create alignment and mobilize lasting change. Topics include:

  • Applying Agile to Data Teams
  • Agile and data teams
  • Agile in the resistant organization
  • Data tests taxonomy
  • Data quality metrics
  • Data profiling as a ninja tool
  • CI/CD pipelines for data
  • Automating data governance
DataKitchen's DataOps Workshops

DataKitchen's Consulting Projects

For the complete transformation, our consulting services can be organized into a project to bring DataOps and its benefits to your organization.

We have flexible engagement models: hourly, project, and retainer.

DataKitchen's Consulting Projects

Meet the DataOps Experts

Our founders bring decades of experience in data analytics, software engineering, and DataOps transformation.

Ready to get started?

Talk to our team about how DataKitchen services can accelerate your DataOps transformation.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about DataOps Consulting, Coaching, and Transformation

What does DataOps consulting involve?

Working with your team to shorten cycle time and reduce errors reaching customers, through automation, testing, and environment management. The distinguishing feature is that it is coaching rather than delivery: your team runs the resulting process, because a transformation that depends on outside people ends when they leave.

How is this different from hiring a data engineering firm?

A staffing engagement delivers pipelines. This changes how your team builds and operates them, so the improvement persists. The measure is whether your cycle time and error rate keep improving after the engagement ends, which is a different outcome from a set of delivered artifacts.

How long does a DataOps transformation take?

Improvements start within weeks, not quarters, because the first steps are observation and automated test coverage rather than re-architecture. That sequencing matters: teams in permanent firefighting cannot absorb a large change, so early wins create the room for structural work.

What results should we expect?

Two numbers moving in opposite directions from their usual trade-off: cycle time from idea to production going down, and errors reaching customers going down at the same time. Most approaches improve one at the expense of the other, and getting both is the point of the method.

Do you work with our existing tools?

Yes. The approach adds observability, testing, and deployment practice around the stack you already run rather than replacing it. Rewrites are rarely fundable and usually unnecessary, and a change nobody has to approve is one you can start immediately.

Who is this for?

Data teams under pressure to move faster while being blamed for errors, typically where the same failures keep recurring and nobody has time to fix the cause. If your team is measured on delivery but judged on quality, that gap is what this addresses.