Armakuni Limited

Armakuni Data Engineering Service

We help organisations modernise their data operations by applying modern cloud and DevOps principles to new or existing data engineering processes. We embed within your teams and lead by example, helping your teams design, develop and upskill in data architectures, data processing and infrastructure in cloud-based environments.

Features

• Develop and deploy scalable data pipelines in cloud environments
• Optimise and modernise architectures incl. data-lakes, lake-houses and warehouses
• Embed software craft, agile/lean, devops, cloud native architecture/infrastructure
• Increase the adoption of best practice across mixed teams (retained/contractors)
• Experts with all major cloud providers (GCP, Azure, AWS)
• Enables temporary capacity increase during peak periods of delivery

Benefits

• Adopt modern data engineering tools, technologies & techniques
• Build capability within data engineering, data-ops and data-science teams
• Drive change while fixing problems
• Lay a solid foundation of tools and principles
• Leverage the best open-source tools and public cloud
• Iterate quickly from discovery, to POC, to beta, to production
• Our agile approach is designed to handle frequently changing requirements
• Leverage the power of cloud for big data analytics

£225 to £1,900 a unit a day

• Education pricing available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at accounts@armakuni.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

622330969316887

Contact

Maryana Berezdetska
02074594330
accounts@armakuni.com

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: Armakuni will work with the (prospective) client to plan any team augmentation work.; ; This is normally part of a wider transformative piece of work, but in some scenarios, we engage with organisations to ""put fires out"", or solve specific, contextual issues blocking flow.; ; Augmentation planning typically takes 1-3 days, but this can vary significantly depending on the organisation and the context.
• Planning service works with specific services: Yes
• Hosting or software services the planning service works with:
  • GCP (Partner)
  • AWS (Partner)
  • Azure (Partner)
  • Any container based platform
  • Any Kubernetes installation
  • VMWare Platforms
  • PaaS - CloudFoundry, Openshift
  • CaaS - Containers As A Service
  • Serverless

Training

• Training service provided: Yes
• How the training service works: Augmenting teams with experts is a variant of training. In essence your teams will have in team coaches and context specific training.; ; Please also see the Armakuni Cloud Native Training and Adoption Service listed here on G-Cloud.
• Training is tied to specific services: No

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: We have significant real-world experience of data engineering solutions, data pipelines and ETL operations which are required to prepare and ingest data from many different data sources. This includes automated data cleaning, validation and data quality checking.
• Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services: No

Quality assurance and performance testing

• Quality assurance and performance testing service: Yes
• How the quality assurance and performance testing works: We don't see quality assurance and performance testing as separate to development; rather, we build it in by left-shifting it into the development process. We do this by implementing automated unit and integration testing, code quality checking, continuous data quality monitoring and load testing to ensure that poor quality or underperforming software does not make it into production in the first place. We do this through the use of robust Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

Security testing

• Security services: Yes
• Security services type: Other
• Other security services:
  • Automation of security services/practices
  • Implement security testing into CI/CD pipelines
  • Continuous Governance

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: No

Service scope

• Service constraints: The Armakuni range of services is about ""enabling"" our clients. We help clients build HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAMS.; This necessitates a range of different approaches.; But DO NOT:; * Provide support services (but we might provide coaching services); * Provide CTO services (but we might run workshops to influence and drive decisions); ; Other constraints are currently unknown

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: No
• Phone support: No
• Web chat support: No
• Support levels: Armakuni provide engineers and consultants to support change and transformation - our aim is to enable our clients to be able to support themselves.; In this capacity, we do not provide a production level out of hours support service, however we do provide support contacts during working hours.; We can, if required provide some levels of support/drawdown consultancy for our engineering coaches, but this is not a commercial software support agreement.

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: Up to Security Clearance (SC)

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: No
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Other security certifications: No

Social Value

• Fighting climate change:

  Fighting climate change

  Armakuni has partnered with Positive Planet a leading external consultantancy to assist us on our Net Zero journey, Positive Planet are helping Armakuni to better understand our carbon emissions and how to reduce them using informed carbon reduction strategies. We have already calculated our carbon footprint for 2021. Using this data we have developed government compliant carbon reduction plan with clear targets and commitments. We have already certified as Carbon Neutral and we aim to certify as a Net Zero company by 2030 at the latest. Our carbon analysis extends beyond the requirements to be transparent and is publically shared (https://positiveplanet.uk/company-dashboards/armakuni/#), the analysis will be increasingly more detailed over the coming years. Our journey will be under continued review internally and externally to ensure we hit our targets. ; Our client engagements are focused on efficient use of resources, we achieve this in three ways. In our deliveries we ensure instances are automatically scaled according to demand, many of our engagements involve rearchitecting services to be cloud-native (using containers and “serverless” technologies maximises the resharing of resources, eliminating wasted server time and thus minimising the carbon footprint of applications). Finally, we maximise the use of reserved instances which are more efficient than on demand resources. Armakuni is developing it's ethical and sustainability strategy. We have tendered out for an external consultant to guide us through this process and we are currently in the middle of this selection process. The plan will collaborative and will include a robust internal discussion and review led by the consultancy. We aim to complete this by the end of 2022.
• Covid-19 recovery:

  Covid-19 recovery

  Armakuni was founded by a team working at Comic Relief and as such the organisation has always had a strong people focus. Armakuni has well established processes to support the physical and mental wellbeing of employees through a range of services including BUPA, virtual GP Appointments, Employee Assistance and Mental Health Support via Spill. These services and policies such as "remote first working" help to support our people and reduce the demand on public services. Central to our engagement approach is the focus on transferring knowledge, re-skilling and uplifting the capability of the retained teams within our clients. This increasingly relates to the re-skilling of teams whose focus has been legacy technology (on-prem, COTS, waterfall) to modern cloud-native, open-source and agile ways of working. We also partner with leading training organisations to support the recruitment of under represented groups into highly attractive technology engineering jobs, this includes CodeUntapped, Bright Network and QA. We supported the Welsh Government's Covid-19 response and recovery by building a strategic Data Visualisation Platform that allowed Ministers, Civil Servants, Clinicians and Public Health professionals to have all the relevant data instantly available and shareable to drive timely and improved decision making. One of the services we built with the Welsh Government allowed policy makers to model the impact of various policy decisions on the spread of Covid through the Welsh population, to drive strategic response to the pandemic (described here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTWmeJXe9vg). All services for this engagement were procured through GCloud and Armakuni gave a significant discount against our published SFIA rate card. As a remote first employer, our people were able to maintain bubbles and safe distancing by working from home. Now restrictions are lifted we encourage our people to only travel when necessary.
• Tackling economic inequality:

  Tackling economic inequality

  We partner with Code Untapped whose mission is to empower the underrepresented community to fulfil their potential through increasing diversity in technology. They provide a platform to help people from under-represented communities develop their technical skills, instil in them an entrepreneurial spirit, and help them acquire jobs with their partners. Armakuni provide mentorship for Code Untapped's community using our consultant's skills and experience to support the growth of individuals and the programme. When individuals are placed with clients our engineers provide 1-to-1 coaching and mentorship to help them with the challenges they face and uplift their skills. We provide this services free of charge as part of our ongoing commitment to expanding economic opportunities for traditionally under-represented groups. We also developed and delivered training programmes on modern engineering practices to Code Untapped cohorts, introducing them to principles and practices that will enable them to be successful in the world of cloud native software development. As a remote first employer we employ colleagues from all geographies across the United Kingdom, some of these areas are considered to be deprived ie Sunderland, West Wales. Remuneration is based upon experience and is not varied based upon UK location. Armakuni focuses on the adoption of open source, multi-cloud, containerised technologies by clients, our deliveries are highly resilient, highly scalable and high-portable. Our approach enables Clients to adopt new technology solutions and overcome technical debt thereby avoiding vendor lock-ins and the associated costs. Armakuni have a culture of collaboration with clients that extends to the clients rainbow portfolio of vendors. We are advocates of modern engineering best practice that ensure security and risk postures are appropriate for the context of each delivery.
• Equal opportunity:

  Equal opportunity

  Armakuni works on a 'remote first' policy where individuals' contracted place of work is from home unless required to travel for client and company meetings. We are an Equal Opportunities employer and provide reasonable adjustments to meet the needs of our people. We actively celebrate diversity across the organisation and have made significant strides in recognising the neuro-diversity agenda across our workforce. Armakuni is a member of the Tech Talent Charter - Bringing together industries and organisations to drive greater inclusion and diversity in technology roles. Armakuni provides all employees with a £2000 annual Learning budget and 5 training days per year to focus on their own continuous learning. Individual support is provided by our Continuous Learning Lead and a team of Pastoral Managers to support our people. Despite falling outside the category of companies that must publish a Modern Slavery Policy, Armakuni has an active Modern Slavery Policy which monitors all critical risk areas such as supply chain for risk.
• Wellbeing:

  Wellbeing

  Armakuni places a strong emphasis on Health and Wellbeing for our people and strives to constantly review our approach to ensure we are providing relevant support to our people. Armakuni were recognised externally by Great Places to Work in 2022, Armakuni were highly ranked in the Small Company Category as one of the leading companies in this area. ; ; We provide access to Private Medical Insurance, an online GP service, an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) as well as a newly launched therapy platform to support the mental health of our people through free access to therapists. Individuals are also provided with a monthly Wellness allowance to support their own wellbeing initiatives whether that be a yoga class or gym membership.; ; Individuals also have access to a cycle to work scheme.; ; Private Medical insurance, GP services and therapy reduce the burden on public services feeling them up for communities who require their services and reducing wait time for those in need.; ; We worked with Welsh Government to open source the work we did for them to enable other governments and groups to use the technology in future. We actively give back to the tech community through encouraging our staff to participate in the wider community during our learning days, (time when staff spend on personal and organisational learning). A number of our staff contribute to open source projects that support various technical communities and speak at conferences and meetups. We also do matched funding for any staff initiatives fundraising for charities and the community, which in recent times have included LGBT and gender equality groups. ; ; We work with Code Untapped to support those from under represented communities. We are also signatories of the Tech Talent Charter, showing our commitment to driving greater inclusion and diversity in tech.

Pricing

• Price: £225 to £1,900 a unit a day
• Discount for educational organisations: Yes

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at accounts@armakuni.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.