Managed Data Services

Data Squads

Keep Your Data Reliable and Your Roadmap Moving

Gain a dedicated team to run, optimize, and continuously improve your data environment. With KMS Data Squads, your data foundation evolves alongside your business, backed by a team that knows how to keep it reliable as your ambitions grow.

WHEN DATA OPERATIONS SLOW YOU DOWN

Unreliable Data Makes Every Decision Riskier

Every business decision depends on the data behind it. As AI adoption adds new workloads and dependencies, gaps become harder to detect, while the team that should fix them is busy keeping existing pipelines running and no one clearly owns the environment as a whole.

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Growing Complexity Weakens Trust in Data

Inconsistent data can carry errors into reporting and AI outputs. Without ongoing quality controls and clear lineage, your teams struggle to establish whether the information guiding business decisions is accurate and complete.
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Maintenance Delays Your Data Roadmap

Your data engineers are pulled into pipeline failures, production support, and recurring maintenance. Strategic data products wait while the same people responsible for moving the business forward keep existing workloads running.
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Fragmented Ownership, Growing Risk

Responsibility spread across teams and vendors makes recurring issues harder to resolve. Gaps in operational ownership allow costs and technical debt to grow without clear accountability for improving the environment.
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Data Squads

Gain a dedicated team to run, optimize, and continuously improve your data environment. With KMS Data Squads, your data foundation evolves alongside your business, backed by a team that knows how to keep it reliable as your ambitions grow.

AI-Native Data Operation and Optimization

Unlike staff augmentation, which adds people but leaves ownership with you, or projects that end at handoff, Data Squads runs and evolves your environment as one ongoing service, making reliable data more consistently available to the people and applications that depend on it.

Your investment in data should create lasting business value. KMS Data Squads helps you realize more of that value by improving how your environment runs and evolves, making reliable data more consistently available to the people and applications that depend on it.

Clear Ownership of Daily Operations

Our squads provide documented responsibilities and measurable service expectations to give your team a clear path for resolving issues and managing the environment. You know who owns daily operations, incident response, and production changes.

Continuous Improvement Built-In

Your squad maintains a jointly prioritized backlog of reliability, quality, performance, cost, and refactoring work. You see your environment improve over time instead of only receiving fixes when something breaks.

Delivery Accelerated by AI

Our squads use AI assistance and agents to speed up specification, development, testing, and optimization. You receive improvements and incident resolutions faster without adding headcount to your own team.

Human Engineers Accountable for Production

Qualified KMS engineers evaluate data, architecture, and security decisions on production releases. Every piece of work assisted by AI remains reviewable and governed, so you gain speed without giving up control.

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What You Receive At

Trusted Data. Lasting Business Value.

From the first weeks, you receive an environment baseline, a clear ownership model, agreed service levels, and runbooks that make data ownership visible, operation measurable, and improvement continuous. Over time, your data foundation grows stronger.

Trusted, Traceable Data

Gain greater confidence in the data behind your reports and AI applications. Improved quality controls and maintained lineage help your teams understand where information comes from, identify inconsistencies, and address the issues that undermine its use.

Greater Platform Efficiency

Get more value from your data platform investment. Workload and compute optimization improve how your environment uses resources, helping you support business demands with better performance and greater control over operating costs.

A Foundation for Analytics and AI

Build a data environment that can evolve with your analytics and AI ambitions. Targeted architecture improvements and technical debt reduction address the limitations holding new initiatives back, making your existing foundation better prepared for broader business use.

Repeatable Paths to Data Production

Make new data workloads easier to deploy and maintain with reusable engineering foundations. Established testing and deployment patterns reduce repeated setup work, helping your team move beyond one implementation at a time.

WHY KMS IS

The Established Partner in Data Reliability

Accountability Beyond Delivery

KMS takes responsibility beyond implementation, combining clear service ownership with engineering capacity to maintain platform reliability in production. As workloads grow and business requirements change, your data environment receives the ongoing attention needed to remain stable and effective.

AI-Native, Human-Governed

AI-assisted workflows accelerate engineering and operations, while qualified KMS engineers remain accountable for critical decisions and production releases. Proven reference architectures, testing frameworks, and observability patterns help your team deliver consistently without rebuilding the foundations for every project.

Trusted in Regulated Industries

Experience across healthcare, financial services, insurance, and other regulated industries informs how KMS designs and operates data environments. Governance, traceability, and operational controls are built into engineering practices to help meet demanding regulatory and business requirements.

Business-Led Data Decisions

Your business priorities guide the data engineering effort. KMS helps you weigh data improvements against their impact on business outcomes, so investment addresses the limitations that matter most to your organization.

Root-Cause Engineering

Your recurring data problems receive sustained engineering attention. Our data squads connect production findings with targeted improvements, helping you address the underlying causes of disruption and reduce the effort spent resolving the same issues repeatedly. In one engagement, KMS cut a European fashion retailer’s data-related costs by 70%.

Leading Data & AI Partnerships

You benefit from KMS partnerships with leading data companies, including Databricks, AWS, and SAS, so your squad works with the platforms you already run.
What's Next

Get More Value From Your Data

Before your Data Squad takes over operations, these focused engagements help you understand your data pipelines and turn the data you already run into AI and analytics capabilities.

AI Readiness Assessment

Evaluate your AI maturity through a focused assessment that identifies high-impact opportunities and delivers a clear, actionable AI roadmap—backed by proven AI strategy frameworks, enterprise AI consulting, and advanced data science expertise within KMS.

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AI POC POV Workshop

Turn a high-priority use case into a working prototype in 5 days—combining rapid on-site delivery with structured feasibility validation.

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Don't Let Data Bottlenecks Hold Your Business Back

Your next initiative needs a data foundation that can support it. Bring KMS Data Squads into your environment, and start addressing the limitations holding your business back.

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