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Dr. Farrukh Akhtar
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Independent audit of an enterprise Databricks Lakehouse

Led a 10-day independent audit of a global mining company's enterprise Databricks Lakehouse platform across three pillars (Ingestion, Data Governance, Technical Governance), delivering evidence-backed findings from production environment analysis of 16,000+ tables across two AWS regions and three stakeholder workshops.

Role: Lead Auditor / Principal Consultant

tables analysed across two AWS regions
16,000+
tables analysed across two AWS regions
remediation roadmap delivered
21-point
remediation roadmap delivered
from kickoff to Conditional Go
10 days
from kickoff to Conditional Go

The approach

Led a 10-day independent audit of a global mining company's enterprise Databricks Lakehouse platform across three pillars (Ingestion, Data Governance, Technical Governance), delivering evidence-backed findings from production environment analysis of 16,000+ tables across two AWS regions and three stakeholder workshops. Identified critical gaps including zero governance tagging, absent architectural target state, and stalled data transformation pipelines, corroborated by four independent sources. Delivered a Conditional Go assessment with a 21-point remediation roadmap, 7 conditional actions with defined timeframes, and a consolidated risk register accepted by client, vendor, and consulting leadership.

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