Imran Beig in a white shirt and red tie on a waterfront at night
Cloud Data Architect — Azure · AWS · Databricks

Imran
Beig.

I design data platforms that are fast, governed and built to last. 17 years from ETL pipelines to enterprise lakehouses.

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years in data and analytics
17+
enterprises including HSBC, IBM and HCL
6
countries of delivery, India and Malaysia
2
shorter ETL processing on an Azure modernization
50%
About

I turn data strategy into architecture teams can actually build, then write up what works.

I started in 2009 writing ETL for telecom data. Since then I’ve built warehouses at HSBC and IBM in Malaysia, modelled a Teradata FSLDM warehouse at Encora, modernized Azure platforms at HCL and led lakehouse architecture at Exponentia.ai.

Azure Solutions Architect ExpertAzure Data Engineer AssociateTOGAF · ArchiMate
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Selected
work

2017 — 2026
  1. 01

    Governed cloud lakehouse

    Exponentia.aiOne governed platform for batch and near real-time data
  2. 02

    Azure data lake modernization

    HCL Technologies25% lower storage cost · 50% shorter ETL · 30% fewer data quality issues
  3. 03

    Enterprise warehouse on Teradata FSLDM

    Encora TechnologiesOne governed financial services model for BI
  4. 04

    Marketing & finance data marts

    IBMConsolidated reporting across many source systems

Off the
clock

Gallery

Writing

All articles
Fundamentals · 1 Oct 2026

Medallion architecture: what actually belongs in Bronze, Silver and Gold

A practical rulebook for the three layers, with the mistakes I see most often when teams adopt the pattern on Databricks.

Read · 1 min →Practitioner · 17 Sep 2026

A Unity Catalog rollout checklist from real migrations

The decisions to make before you migrate a single table: metastore layout, naming, ownership and access patterns.

Read · 1 min →Architect · 3 Sep 2026

Cutting Databricks cost with Photon, Liquid Clustering and honest cluster sizing

Where Databricks spend actually goes, and the order I tackle it in when a client's bill doubles.

Read · 1 min →

Ebooks

All ebooks
Pre-order · $29 · 180 pages

The Lakehouse Architect's Playbook

Designing governed, cost-efficient lakehouses on Databricks, Azure and AWS.

Pre-order · $29
Coming soon · $19 · 120 pages

Data Governance with Unity Catalog

A field guide to catalogs, permissions, lineage and data quality that teams actually follow.

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The Lakehouse Letter · every other Tuesday

One architecture decision, explained properly.

Design trade-offs, cost fixes and governance patterns from real Azure, AWS and Databricks platforms. New subscribers get the Lakehouse Readiness Checklist (free PDF).

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