Industrial analytics dashboards with an embedded data team
A dedicated-team engagement that pairs a senior data engineer and a tech lead with Greyhound Engineering's existing analytics team. The work centers on Grafana-based dashboards integrated with SQL Server and the N3uron industrial-data API.
- Geography
- Spain (with UK ties)
- Stage
- Established engineering consultancy
- Team
- 1 data engineer + 1 tech lead
- Duration
- Ongoing strategic staff augmentation
The situation
Greyhound Engineering delivers industrial-analytics solutions. As demand for advanced analytics work grew, the in-house team needed expertise it could not staff in-house at the right pace: senior data engineering, a tech-lead role to carry technical direction, and people who knew the constraints of SQL Server when paired with industrial-data sources.
The brief was strategic staff augmentation rather than a project build: extend the existing team with the missing seniority, deliver against client work in flight, and leave Greyhound's engineers better at the discipline than they were before the engagement started.
What we built
The engagement is a Dedicated AI Engineering Teams arrangement built around two roles: a senior data engineer carrying the analytics work, and a tech lead carrying the architectural and code-review side.
The work focused on the dashboards Greyhound builds for industrial clients: Grafana on the visualization side, SQL Server as the primary data store, and the N3uron (Neuron) API as the source for industrial telemetry. The constraint that mattered was how to make Grafana behave well against SQL Server's limitations when the underlying data volumes and update cadences came from industrial systems.
Beyond the dashboards, the engagement was built so capability stayed inside Greyhound. Knowledge transfer happened inside the workflow rather than as a separate training phase: code reviews, architecture discussions, and shared design decisions all left Greyhound's engineers better at the discipline.
Tech stack: Grafana, SQL Server, N3uron, Microsoft Azure, SharePoint.
Outcome
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Senior data engineering and tech-lead capacity embedded with the in-house team
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Industrial-analytics dashboard work delivered against client engagements in flight
Greyhound's analytics service portfolio is broader and faster than it was at the start of the engagement, with the senior expertise embedded rather than purchased ad hoc. The dedicated-team shape gave the firm scalable capability without permanent-hire overhead.
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