Finance
$1.5 m savings and 80% faster audits with Snowflake Vault
How a leading mortgage lender migrated to a governed data platform to automate key processes and adopt ML
Key results and metrics
US $1.5 m
annual savings from on-prem licences & retired hardware
80%
faster audit prep from 30+ days to 3 days
10h
nightly data loads down to 15 minutes near-real-time data
100%
sensitive columns classified and masked via policy automation
Under 4 days
to land and govern a brand-new data source (from 5 weeks previously)
20 prod
deployments per day with CI/CD DataOps
12 ML models
in pricing, retention, and marketing, powered by a governed Snowpark feature store
The challenge
A leading US non-bank mortgage originator still ran risk, finance, and servicing analytics on an ageing SQL Server estate, 320 SSIS packages, and 600 stored procedures, that cost US $2 m/year in licence and hardware costs.
Manual lineage would slow CFPB/GLBA exams, and business users would wait for 4–6 weeks for new datasets.
The lender needed modern analytics as well as bullet-proof governance, fast.
The solution
Infinite Lambda delivered an enterprise-ready, governed data platform in four months.
Action
Impact
Flowline-powered conversion of 320 SSIS jobs & 600 procs to Fivetran + dbt on Snowflake (Azure) in 10 weeks
Zero downtime; licence retirements
Enterprise Data Vault 2.0 model (loan, borrower, asset)
15-min micro-batches; complete history
Azure Purview + private endpoints
Nightly scan of 4,200 assets; 100 % PII tagged
Policy automation with Purview, Snowflake Dynamic Data Masking & Row-Level Security
Devs move fast without breaching rules
CI/CD DataOps (GitHub Actions) gating every merge with Purview scans
20 safe production releases/day
As a result, the modernisation enabled governed self-service analytics, rapid ML feature delivery, and stress-free regulatory exams.
The client’s modern data stack
Infinite Lambda brought governance and speed together. With Azure Purview woven into a Snowflake Data Vault, we know exactly where every field lives, who can see it, and how fast we can put it to work. Compliance prep fell from weeks to days, and our analysts are shipping new insights faster than ever.
— Chief Data & Analytics Officer
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