Enterprise Data Consultancy · Leeds, UK

Data that
works for
your business.

We help enterprise organisations migrate, engineer, and govern their data — turning complex, fragmented estates into a clear competitive advantage.

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Enterprise Data Migration
Data Engineering
Analytics & BI
Cloud Data Platforms
Data Governance
AI-Ready Architecture

About Us

Scholars of data.
Architects of change.

Data Scholars Ltd is a premium UK data consultancy based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. We partner with enterprise organisations to design, migrate, and optimise the data environments that underpin intelligent, modern businesses.

Our consultants bring deep technical rigour alongside the commercial awareness to know what actually matters. We don't deliver slide decks — we deliver working data platforms, trusted pipelines, and meaningful insight.

From a 50TB migration with zero downtime to an AI-ready feature store serving millions of predictions daily, we've done it — and we'll do it for you.

Precision
Every byte migrated, every record reconciled.
Rigour
Evidence-based decisions at every layer.
Partnership
Embedded with your team, aligned to your goals.
Velocity
Accelerated delivery, no corners cut.

What We Do

End-to-end data excellence.

From raw migration to AI-ready pipelines, we engineer data infrastructure that scales with your ambition — and stays governable as it grows.

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Enterprise Data Migration
Zero-downtime migrations from on-premise to cloud, legacy to modern warehouse, or cross-platform — at enterprise scale with full auditability.
AWS / Azure / GCPZero DowntimeETL/ELT
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Data Engineering
Scalable batch and streaming pipelines, lakehouse architectures, and real-time processing built for reliability from day one.
SparkKafkaAirflowDelta Lake
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Analytics & Business Intelligence
Self-service BI platforms, executive dashboards, and embedded analytics that turn raw data into decisions your board can act on.
Power BILookerTableaudbt
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Cloud Data Platforms
Design, build, and optimise modern platforms on Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or Microsoft Fabric — with full cost governance included.
SnowflakeDatabricksBigQueryFabric
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Data Governance
Enterprise data catalogues, lineage tracking, access controls, GDPR-compliant frameworks — making your data estate trustworthy and audit-ready.
PurviewCollibraAlationGDPR
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AI-Ready Architecture
Prepare your data estate for AI and ML — feature stores, vector databases, curated training sets, and RAG-ready pipelines that make models work in production.
Feature StoresVector DBsRAG

Case Studies

Proven at scale.

Real-world transformations across manufacturing, banking, healthcare, and retail — with outcomes that compound long after we leave.

Manufacturing 2024
SAP to Azure Synapse migration for a global precision engineering firm
A 2,400-employee manufacturer was running 15-year-old on-premise SAP BW reporting. We migrated 4.2TB of production data to Azure Synapse Analytics with zero downtime, rebuilding 180 legacy reports as interactive Power BI dashboards with real-time operational data.
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Faster reporting
4.2TB
Migrated, zero loss
Banking & Finance 2024
Real-time risk analytics platform for a UK challenger bank
Built a Kafka-powered platform processing 2M+ transactions daily, replacing overnight batch reporting with sub-second risk signals. Included a complete FCA-compliant governance layer and a Databricks ML pipeline for anomaly detection that reduced fraud by 40%.
2M+
Daily transactions
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Fraud reduction
Healthcare 2023
NHS Trust patient data platform consolidating 12 legacy clinical systems
Designed and delivered a FHIR-compliant interoperability hub unifying patient records across 12 legacy systems into Azure Health Data Services, enabling cross-trust data sharing and population health analytics for 1.4 million patients.
1.4M
Patient records unified
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Query time saved
Retail 2023
Omnichannel customer data platform for a major UK retailer
Unified 23 million customer profiles from in-store POS, ecommerce, loyalty, and call-centre into a single GCP BigQuery CDP. Real-time personalisation pipelines now serve product recommendations at 12ms latency across web, app, and email.
23M
Profiles unified
0%
Revenue uplift

Why Data Scholars

Built for the complexity of enterprise data.

We embed with your teams, speak the language of your business, and measure success in outcomes — not activity.

UK-based, enterprise-proven
Our senior consultants average 12 years of hands-on enterprise data experience, with delivery across FTSE 250 organisations and public sector institutions.
Rapid time to value
Our accelerators and pre-built frameworks reduce delivery timelines by up to 40% — getting your data infrastructure generating insight faster.
Outcome-linked delivery
We define success metrics upfront and hold ourselves accountable to them. Every engagement is measured against real business outcomes, not billable hours.
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Data migrated with zero loss
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How We Work

A methodology built on experience.

Five disciplined stages that have been refined across 200+ enterprise engagements.

01
Discover
Deep-dive discovery workshops to map your data estate, understand goals, and identify risks and opportunities.
02
Design
Architecture blueprints, technology selection, governance frameworks, and a detailed migration playbook.
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Migrate
Incremental, zero-downtime execution with automated validation, rollback capability, and real-time monitoring.
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Validate
Comprehensive quality assurance, reconciliation reports, and sign-off testing against agreed business criteria.
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Optimise
Performance tuning, cost optimisation, team enablement, and continuous improvement to maximise platform value.

Industries

Sector expertise that matters.

Deep domain knowledge means we understand the regulatory, operational, and commercial context behind every data decision.

Banking & Finance
FCA-compliant platforms, real-time risk analytics, and regulatory reporting automation.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
FHIR-compliant interoperability, NHS data standards, and population health analytics.
Retail & eCommerce
Customer data platforms, omnichannel analytics, and personalisation infrastructure.
Manufacturing
IoT data pipelines, OEE analytics, supply chain visibility, and ERP migrations.
Energy & Utilities
Smart grid data management, consumption analytics, and carbon reporting platforms.
Public Sector
GDS-aligned data strategies, cross-departmental sharing, and Citizen 360 platforms.
Telecoms & Media
Network analytics, subscriber platforms, and content recommendation engines at carrier scale.
Logistics & Transport
Real-time tracking, route optimisation analytics, and supply chain visibility dashboards.
Manufacturing
72%
Faster reporting
4.2TB migrated from SAP to Azure Synapse with zero downtime across a 2,400-person operation.
Banking
40%
Reduction in fraud
Real-time risk platform processing 2M+ daily transactions with sub-second anomaly detection.
Healthcare
60%
Query time saved
1.4M patient records unified across 12 legacy clinical systems into a single FHIR-compliant hub.
Retail
31%
Revenue uplift
23M customer profiles unified into a real-time CDP serving personalisation at 12ms latency.

Get in Touch

Let's talk about your data.

Whether you're planning a migration, building a platform, or preparing for AI — we'd love to hear about your challenge.

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41 Oak Drive, Whinmoor, Leeds, LS14 2FB
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Data Scholars Ltd, 41 Oak Drive, Whinmoor, Leeds, LS14 2FB
Leeds LS14 2FB
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