Google BigQuery
Analytics Engineering

Serverless petabyte-scale analytics on GCP - warehouse design, streaming ingestion, SQL optimisation, BI Engine, and full pipeline delivery on BigQuery.

GCP Certified Petabyte Scale BI Engine Ready Streaming Ingestion
50+ BigQuery pipelines built
PB Petabyte-scale datasets managed
GCP Certified cloud practitioners
Overview

The serverless data warehouse that scales to petabytes - built right from the start

Google BigQuery eliminates infrastructure management and lets analysts run SQL over petabytes of data in seconds. But the difference between a fast, cost-efficient BigQuery environment and an expensive, fragile one comes down entirely to how it's designed.

At DynamicUnit, we design and deliver BigQuery environments that are partitioned, clustered, and modelled correctly from day one. We build the ingestion pipelines, transformation layers, and BI Engine configurations that ensure your analysts get fast answers - and your finance team doesn't get a surprise billing spike. Our Looker Studio reporting practice pairs naturally with BigQuery for end-to-end analytics delivery.

Whether you need a greenfield warehouse, a migration from Redshift or Snowflake, or optimisation of an existing environment, we handle the full pipeline - from data warehousing design through to production dashboards. Need to feed BigQuery from legacy systems? Our data migration and Python pipeline teams have done this across dozens of engagements.

What's included

  • BigQuery warehouse design & schema modelling
  • Streaming & batch ingestion pipelines
  • Partitioning, clustering & query optimisation
  • BI Engine configuration for sub-second dashboards
  • dbt transformation layer development
  • Data governance, IAM & column-level security
  • Cost monitoring & spend optimisation
Industries We Serve

BigQuery analytics engineered for your industry

Retail & E-Commerce

Customer behaviour analytics, product performance reporting, inventory forecasting, and marketing attribution across millions of daily transactions.

Financial Services

Transaction monitoring, risk scoring, regulatory reporting, and fraud detection pipelines processing petabytes of financial event data.

Logistics & Supply Chain

Fleet tracking analytics, route optimisation data, warehouse throughput dashboards, and demand planning models built on streaming IoT data.

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Clinical trial data aggregation, patient outcome analytics, operational dashboards for hospital networks, and HIPAA-compliant data governance.

Our Capabilities

Everything your BigQuery platform needs

From initial dataset design to production-grade pipelines and BI tooling - here's what our BigQuery practice delivers.

Warehouse Design

Schema design with star/snowflake models, correct partitioning strategies, and clustering keys that keep query costs low at scale.

Streaming Ingestion

Real-time data ingestion via Pub/Sub, Dataflow, and the BigQuery Storage Write API - with exactly-once delivery guarantees.

ETL & ELT Pipelines

Build reliable batch and incremental pipelines using Dataflow, Cloud Composer (Airflow), and dbt for transformation at any volume.

Query Optimisation

Rewrite expensive queries, fix slot contention, implement materialised views, and resolve performance bottlenecks in existing environments.

BI Engine & Looker

Configure BigQuery BI Engine reservations for sub-second Looker Studio dashboards, and build semantic models in Looker for self-serve analytics.

BigQuery ML

Build and deploy machine learning models directly in BigQuery SQL - from forecasting and anomaly detection to recommendation engines.

Data Governance & IAM

Implement column-level security, row-level access policies, VPC Service Controls, and data catalogue tagging for enterprise governance.

Cost Optimisation

Analyse slot usage, identify expensive queries, configure reservations vs on-demand billing, and set up spend alerts to control GCP costs.

Why DynamicUnit

What makes us the right BigQuery partner

A lot of teams can stand up a BigQuery dataset. Fewer can design a warehouse that performs at petabyte scale without runaway costs, schema drift, or brittle pipelines. Here's what we do differently.

Schema-First Design

We model your data before writing a single pipeline - ensuring the physical design supports both current query patterns and future growth.

Cost-Aware Engineering

We design partitioning, clustering, and slot configurations to minimise query costs. Clients typically see 40–70% cost reduction after optimisation.

GCP Native Approach

We use the right GCP services - Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Composer, Data Catalog - rather than forcing third-party tools where native services perform better.

Production-Ready Pipelines

Every pipeline includes monitoring, alerting, retry logic, and data quality checks. We don't ship pipelines that only work when everything goes right.

Enterprise Governance

Column-level security, data lineage, audit logging, and IAM role design are built in from the start - not retrofitted when compliance asks for them.

Team Knowledge Transfer

We document everything and run hands-on sessions so your data team can extend and maintain the platform independently after handover.

How We Work

From data audit to production analytics in 4 phases

1
Data Audit & Requirements

We assess your existing data sources, query patterns, team skill levels, and reporting requirements. You get a clear architecture proposal with cost projections.

2
Schema Design & Pipeline Build

We design the warehouse schema, build ingestion pipelines, configure partitioning and clustering, and set up the data warehousing foundation with proper governance.

3
BI & Dashboard Delivery

We connect Looker Studio or your preferred BI tool, configure BI Engine for sub-second dashboards, and validate that reports answer the questions your team is actually asking.

4
Handover & Optimisation

Knowledge transfer sessions for your data team, cost monitoring dashboards, and documentation. We also offer ongoing managed support for pipeline monitoring and query optimisation.

FAQ

Common questions about Google BigQuery

BigQuery is a fully managed, serverless data warehouse on Google Cloud Platform. Unlike traditional warehouses, there are no servers to provision or manage - it scales automatically to petabytes and separates storage from compute. You pay for queries processed (or reserved slots), not for idle infrastructure. This makes it highly cost-effective for variable analytical workloads.

Cost control in BigQuery comes down to schema design and query patterns. We implement table partitioning by date or integer range, clustering on high-cardinality filter columns, materialised views for repeated aggregations, and slot reservations for predictable workloads. We also set up spend alerts and query cost controls to prevent runaway charges.

Yes. BigQuery supports real-time ingestion via the Storage Write API and through Pub/Sub with Dataflow. We build streaming pipelines that deliver sub-minute latency from source to queryable tables, with exactly-once delivery semantics where required.

BigQuery connects natively to Looker Studio (Google Data Studio), Looker, and supports standard JDBC/ODBC connectors for Tableau, Power BI, and Metabase. We configure BigQuery BI Engine reservations to ensure sub-second response times for dashboard queries, regardless of which BI tool you use.

Yes - we migrate from Redshift, Snowflake, SQL Server, and on-premises warehouses to BigQuery. This involves schema translation, SQL dialect conversion, pipeline re-engineering, historical data loading, and a parallel-run validation period before cutover. We document every step and provide rollback procedures. See our data migration services for more on our approach.

A greenfield warehouse with 3-5 data sources and a set of production dashboards typically takes 4-8 weeks. Migrations from Redshift or Snowflake run 6-12 weeks depending on pipeline complexity and historical data volume. We provide a phased delivery plan after the initial data audit.

Costs depend on the number of data sources, pipeline complexity, and BI requirements. A focused engagement with schema design, 3-5 pipelines, and a Looker Studio dashboard suite typically falls in the mid five-figure range. We provide a fixed-scope quote after discovery so there are no surprises.

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