Coalesce 2024: Financial verticals on one data platform: Storebrand's journey with Snowflake and dbt

Storebrand is a financial institution in Norway with several independent verticals — banking, pensions, insurance, asset management, properties — and horizontals across corporate and personal markets. To meet the matrix of data needs, Storebrand has needed to develop several data warehouses. They're now two years into the journey of building a new data platform, based on Snowflake and dbt, with four people in the platform team — and they're now scaling that central platform to the whole enterprise, with dbt Mesh. This requires automation of infrastructure and permissions to be regulatory compliant, data governance, clear separation of duties between the platform team and the data teams — for example, who has the responsibility for data masking and GDPR deletions? — a great developer experience, and a lot of good will. This presentation will try to answer how they've done it so far, and their plans to scale it from here.

Speaker:
Eivind Berg
Tech Lead Data Platform
Storebrand