We design the data & AI strategy — then build the platform that runs it.
BEM Data is a boutique engineering studio for fintech, trading and enterprise teams. From architecture blueprint to production Databricks, dbt, Spark and GenAI — delivered end-to-end, remote, on a direct contract.
Platforms we design & build with
Strategy first. Then a platform that ships.
Most teams don't need another pair of hands — they need someone who owns the outcome. BEM Data does both: the plan and the build.
Strategy & Architecture
A senior, vendor-neutral blueprint for your data & AI stack — grounded in the P&L behind it, not just the pipeline.
- Data & AI platform architecture review and target-state design
- Build-vs-buy, tooling and cost/latency trade-off decisions
- Governance, data quality and GenAI readiness roadmap
- Delivery plan your own team can execute — or that we execute
Fixed-scope sprint · fractional advisory · retainer
Build & Implementation
Implementation-as-a-Service. We take the blueprint to production — governed, tested, and handed over documented.
- Databricks / dbt / Spark platform build & legacy migration
- Production data pipelines with testing, CI/CD and observability
- GenAI features shipped to production (RAG, agents, evals)
- Trading & capital-markets data systems and quant tooling
Fixed-scope delivery · embedded lead · monthly retainer
An unusual combination: data engineering that speaks finance.
The rare studio that understands both the pipeline and the P&L it feeds — because we built both.
Finance-native engineering
Our engineers come from investment banking and quantitative trading as well as data engineering — M&A, capital markets, trading algorithms for equity and crypto funds. In fintech, we speak both languages.
End-to-end ownership
Strategy, architecture, build and handover from one accountable partner. No hand-offs between a "strategy deck" team and an offshore build team that never talk.
Production-grade, governed
Testing, CI/CD, lineage and data-quality gates from day one. Latency and data quality matter — in trading, a bad row is money lost.
Outcomes, not activity.
Client names withheld under NDA — the pattern and the result are what matter.
Legacy pipelines → governed Databricks lakehouse
Led the migration of brittle legacy ETL to a governed Databricks + dbt + Spark platform with automated testing and lineage, unblocking a stalled analytics roadmap.
Market-data & quant tooling for a trading desk
Built ingestion and analytics tooling for equity and crypto strategies — Fibonacci/multiples models, backtesting treated as pipeline tests, low-latency data paths.
GenAI shipped to production, not to a demo
Designed and delivered a retrieval + agent workflow on top of a governed data layer, with evals and guardrails — moving GenAI from a slide to a production feature.
Where we do our best work.
Six domains where a data & AI platform is the difference between shipping and stalling.
Data Platform Engineering
Lakehouse and warehouse builds on Databricks, dbt and Spark — from legacy migration to a governed, production-grade platform.
GenAI in Production
RAG, agents and LLM workflows shipped as real features — with evals, guardrails and a governed data layer underneath. Not demos.
Trading & Capital Markets
Market-data ingestion, quant tooling and low-latency data paths for equity and crypto strategies — backtesting treated as pipeline testing.
Data Governance & Quality
Lineage, contracts, testing and data-quality gates so the numbers can be trusted — because in finance a bad row is money lost.
Cloud & DataOps
Azure and AWS foundations, CI/CD, orchestration (Airflow) and observability — platforms that run reliably without a firefight.
Analytics & Decision Tooling
Metrics layers, quant analytics and decision tooling that connect the pipeline to the P&L it feeds.
Low-friction, senior, remote by default.
Direct contract via Deel or B2B — no third-party payroll margin, no offshore hand-off, US/EU working hours.
Discovery call
A 30-minute call to understand the goal, the constraints and whether we're the right fit. No pitch deck.
Scope & proposal
A written scope with milestones, deliverables and a fixed price or retainer. You know exactly what you're buying.
Build in the open
Weekly demos, code in your repos, decisions documented. You see progress, not status reports.
Handover
Documented, tested, owned by your team — or kept on a retainer. Your platform, not our lock-in.
Fighting your data infrastructure instead of shipping?
Tell us what you're building. If it's a fit, you'll hear back within one business day to schedule a 20-minute call.
- Fintech, trading & enterprise data / AI
- Remote · US/EU hours · direct contract
- Strategy sprint or full build — your call