The Data Shed ^Companies

At The Data Shed, we prioritise helping financial enterprise unlock the value in the data they hold.Through a combination of tried and tested approaches alongside the use of cutting-edge technology in machine learning, architecture, and platforms, our financial clients look to The Data Shed to tackle projects on everything from Cloud Migration to Unifying Data systems, and Machine Learning. More on those here.Having worked in a variety of financial organisations, including Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group and Skipton Building Society, our Shedders are well placed to understand your needs and solve your problems.So, whether youre trying to make better-informed business decisions, reduce risk, or get the most out of your data, our award-winning services can provide outstanding value and insight for your company.Our expertise and experience sit across three key focus areas:Consult & AdviseWe consult and advise aspirational businesses, facilitating organisational synergy by:Aligning data strategy with business strategy.Providing fractional CDO/CTO Support.Delivering discovery projects or fostering long-term partnershipengagements.Create & DeliverWe create and deliver new business platforms, systems architectures, and data governance programmes, as well as provide expertise to expand your internal teams. Projects include:Data platform migration.Data integration and matching.Data architecture and modelling.Data strategy implementation.Business intelligence and advanced analytics.Manage & MaintainWe help you manage and maintain your data systems and architecture to ensure the most efficient return on investment. This is achieved through:Managed service/data platformtechnical operations.Continuous improvement programmes.Continual ROI unlocking.Wondering how do we do this?At The Data Shed we align ourselves closely with several full system development lifecycles to ensure best practice throughout our project deliveries. This includes using Government Digital Service (GDS) service manual standards, Agile and Waterfall methodologies and an internal squad-based approach to creating teams.We also focus on, and promote, the following approaches and principles in all our data strategy developments:Get stuff done properly, first time around.Make it right and only then make it fast.Spend as much time thinking about tests and security as writing code.Work with a team of like-minded high-calibre engineers to translate user requirements into working code.Assist in the progress of others.Lead definition and maintenance of best practice standards in development, design principles and process.Have excellent teamwork, leadership and communication skills.Fail fast/celebrate mistakes!Our multidisciplinary squads have broad technical experience across a wide range of platforms including AWS, Azure and best of breed on premise solutions.With a range of skills in different technical languages and frameworks, this allows them to bring different perspectives when solving complex problems across intricate financial organisations.Likewise, each squads technical breath is always augmented through specialist technical team members with a depth of experience in security, architecture, data science, analytics and delivery.