Lakehouse • Spark • Kafka

Big Data Solutions
in Dubai & UAE

When spreadsheets and even normal databases give up — event streams, IoT fleets and billions of rows — we architect lakehouses and streaming platforms that stay queryable and affordable.From AED 50,000 • 100% code ownership • Senior engineers only

100%Code Ownership
24hQuote Turnaround
12moSupport SLA
Big Data Engineering for UAE Businesses

Delta/Iceberg • Streaming • Cost Governance

JBC Express — Logistics app built by Control Shift
Salamah Drivers — Mobility app built by Control Shift

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Tell us about your big data engineering requirement. A senior engineer — not a salesperson — reviews your brief and sends a scoped, fixed-price proposal within one business day.

  • Fixed price from AED 50,000 — architecture first
  • Batch and streaming unified on one lakehouse
  • Storage tiering that keeps cloud bills predictable
  • Documentation your future data team inherits happily

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Updated for 2026 · Dubai & UAE

Scale Is an Architecture Decision

Big data problems rarely announce themselves — they arrive as a nightly job that suddenly takes nine hours. Control Shift designs for the volume you're growing into: medallion lakehouse layers, partitioning that matches query patterns, and streaming paths for the data that can't wait until tomorrow.

Equally important is economics. Open table formats, tiered storage and autoscaled compute keep growth linear-ish on the invoice, with FinOps dashboards showing exactly which pipelines cost what.

Dubai Delivery Team

Platform Capabilities

Ingestion, storage, processing and governance at serious scale.

Lakehouse Foundations

Delta Lake/Iceberg tables giving ACID guarantees on cheap object storage.

Spark Pipelines

Batch transformations with lineage, tests and incremental processing.

Streaming Ingestion

Kafka/Flink paths delivering second-freshness for ops dashboards.

IoT & Telematics

Ingestion for vehicle fleets, sensors and devices at message scale.

Data Quality Gates

Expectation suites blocking bad loads before they poison marts.

FinOps for Data

Pipeline-level cost attribution and auto-scaling policies.

Why Control Shift

Why UAE Teams Choose Us for Big Data Engineering

Right-Sized Ambition

Snowflake-sized problems get warehouse answers, not Hadoop museums.

Queryable Early

Value lands in weeks via incremental zones, not year-long re-platforms.

Exit-Safe Formats

Open standards keep your data portable across engines and vendors.

Big Data Engineering Cost in Dubai

From AED 50,000 covers focused engagements. Larger programmes are scoped into fixed-price phases — you always approve the number before we start.

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How It Works

From Firehose to Insight

Architect for tomorrow's volume without rebuilding today's value.

01

Discovery & Scoping

We audit your requirements and systems, then lock a fixed scope, timeline and price within 24 hours.

02

Design & Architecture

Solution design reviewed with your stakeholders before a single line of production code.

03

Build & Integrate

Weekly demos on staging. Integrations, security and performance handled as we go.

04

Launch & Support

Go-live with training and documentation, then optional SLA-backed maintenance.

Client Stories

Trusted by Visionary Founders

Digital Strategy

"Control Shift has been instrumental in reshaping our digital strategy. Their commitment to excellence and deep industry knowledge set them apart."

Asif Shuja

Asif Shuja

FOUNDER GEOPOCONSULT

Custom Solutions

"Control Shift raised our online presence, and their solutions fit the way we actually run our business."

Hasan Dweik

Hasan Dweik

CEO ULTRATEC 3D

Innovative Execution

"Control Shift delivered strong results for our brand — they executed cleanly from day one."

Yasir Arafeh

Yasir Arafeh

CEO ULTRATEC 4D

Digital Strategy

"Control Shift has been instrumental in reshaping our digital strategy. Their commitment to excellence and deep industry knowledge set them apart."

Asif Shuja

Asif Shuja

FOUNDER GEOPOCONSULT

Custom Solutions

"Control Shift raised our online presence, and their solutions fit the way we actually run our business."

Hasan Dweik

Hasan Dweik

CEO ULTRATEC 3D

Innovative Execution

"Control Shift delivered strong results for our brand — they executed cleanly from day one."

Yasir Arafeh

Yasir Arafeh

CEO ULTRATEC 4D

Digital Strategy

"Control Shift has been instrumental in reshaping our digital strategy. Their commitment to excellence and deep industry knowledge set them apart."

Asif Shuja

Asif Shuja

FOUNDER GEOPOCONSULT

Custom Solutions

"Control Shift raised our online presence, and their solutions fit the way we actually run our business."

Hasan Dweik

Hasan Dweik

CEO ULTRATEC 3D

Innovative Execution

"Control Shift delivered strong results for our brand — they executed cleanly from day one."

Yasir Arafeh

Yasir Arafeh

CEO ULTRATEC 4D

Sourced & Verified

The Business of Software

Sourced context on why custom software is built and maintained.

Software engineering applies engineering discipline to the design, development, testing and maintenance of software systems.[1]

Software maintenance and evolution typically account for a significant share of a product's total lifetime cost, which is why ongoing support matters as much as initial development.[1]

Sources & References

  1. [1]Software engineering — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering
FAQ

Common Questions

Roughly past single-node comfort: hundreds of GB growing steadily, sub-minute freshness needs, or high-velocity event streams. Below that, a well-tuned warehouse beats exotic stacks — we say so plainly.

Architecture sprints start around AED 50,000. Full lakehouse implementations typically AED 120,000–350,000 plus consumption-based infra costs we forecast transparently.

Yes — a speciality. We inventory jobs and Hive estates, replatform incrementally onto modern lakehouse/warehouse services, and decommission clusters once parity checks pass.

Through streaming ingestion into serving stores — operators watch events land within seconds, while analytical marts refresh on schedule behind the scenes.

Partition pruning, tiered storage, spot/autoscaling compute, query audits — plus per-pipeline cost dashboards reviewed monthly so creep is visible immediately.

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  • NDA available on request
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