Brisbane · Databricks Partner · Est. 2020

Data platforms that hold up at government scale.

We design, build, and operate the data platforms government and regulated industries depend on. Senior-led, embedded locally, and built for the long term.

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Embedded across Queensland's public sector.
What we do

Four practice areas
across the data lifecycle.

We work strategy through implementation through ongoing support, in whichever sequence the engagement demands.

01 — Platform

Enterprise Data Platforms

End-to-end Databricks Lakehouse delivery. Medallion architecture, Delta Lake, batch and streaming ingestion, performance tuning, and large-scale legacy warehouse migrations.

Databricks Delta Lake Unity Catalog Spark dbt
02 — Cloud

Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps

Secure cloud landing zones on Azure and AWS. Infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD automation, and enterprise security controls aligned to ACSC ISM, ISO 27001, and Essential Eight.

Azure AWS Terraform GitHub Actions Entra ID
03 — Governance

Data Governance & Architecture

Enterprise data governance from strategy to implementation. Unity Catalog, lineage, RBAC/ABAC, dynamic masking, row-level security, and metadata management.

Unity Catalog Purview RBAC/ABAC Lineage MDM
04 — Analytics

Analytics & Reporting

Enterprise reporting on Power BI, Tableau, and Databricks SQL. Kimball and Data Vault 2.0 modelling, semantic model design, and migration of legacy reporting platforms.

Power BI Tableau Databricks SQL Kimball Data Vault 2.0
Selected work

Built and operating
in production.

A sample of the platforms our team has delivered for government and the higher-education sector.

Queensland Health

Statewide clinical & business intelligence platform

Third iteration of the data platform, built on Databricks Lakehouse, serving 16 Hospital and Health Services. Ingests 50TB+ from large clinical source systems with near-realtime consumption. Recognised with the Databricks Innovator of the Year award in 2026.

16HHS served
50TB+Ingested
6+ yrsIn production
Seqwater

Modern data platform architecture assurance

Strategic, architectural, and governance oversight of a Databricks implementation delivered by a third-party partner. Solution architecture review, delivery plan assurance, modelling and metadata standards.

2026Engaged
3Workstreams
QUT

Data governance foundations & platform blueprint

Foundational engagements: data governance maturity assessment and action plan, master data management programme plan, model and metadata blueprint, and a data and analytics platform solution architecture.

4Deliverables
2 yrsEngagement
About RIVIRhouse

Built around the people who do the work.

We founded RIVIRhouse on the belief that Queensland public-sector data strategies are best supported by embedded local practitioners who operate what they build.

Senior on every engagement

The senior practitioner you meet is the one who does the work. Every engagement is led end-to-end by the same hands.

Get the fundamentals right

Quality at the foundation enables scale. We design for the long term, both architecture and operating model.

Advisors and operators

We give strategic advice and write the production code. Every engagement leaves your team running the platform we built.

Independent partnerships

We hold partnerships for depth and escalation paths. Our recommendations come from what fits your context.

How we work

From discovery
to handover.

Every engagement follows the same four-step shape. The depth and sequence vary with the problem.

01 — Discover

Diagnose in writing

A senior practitioner writes up the current state, what's getting in the way, and what we'd do about it.

02 — Architect

Blueprint and design

Platform blueprint, governance model, and operating-model design aligned to your QGEA and ISM obligations.

03 — Build

Build with your team

Infrastructure-as-code, ingestion frameworks, governance configurations, and reporting layers, built alongside your team.

04 — Operate

Runbooks and handover

Production operating model, runbooks, monitoring, and capability transfer. Your team runs it. We stay reachable.

Capability

The full stack.

The technologies, frameworks, and standards we work with every day.

Platform & data

Lakehouse & data engineering

  • Databricks Lakehouse, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake
  • Delta Live Tables, Databricks SQL, Lakeflow Connect
  • Auto Loader, Photon, Apache Spark
  • dbt, Dagster, Data Factory, Synapse
  • Kafka / Confluent streaming
  • Kimball & Data Vault 2.0 modelling
Cloud & security

Cloud platform & security

  • Microsoft Azure (ADLS Gen2, Key Vault, Entra ID, Monitor)
  • AWS (S3, Glue, Security Hub)
  • Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Ansible
  • GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab, Flux
  • Azure Firewall, Front Door, Defender, Policy
  • ACSC ISM · ISO 27001 · Essential Eight
Govern & consume

Governance & analytics

  • Unity Catalog, Microsoft Purview
  • Lineage, metadata, data quality frameworks
  • RBAC / ABAC, row-level & column security
  • Power BI, Tableau, Microsoft Fabric, SSAS
  • SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Snowflake
  • Python, SQL, Java, PowerShell

Let's make your data work harder.

Book a 60-minute call with a senior practitioner.
We'll listen to the problem and let you know if we can help.

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