enabling data utilization while reinforcing compliance excellence
Overview
SoFi, a member-centric digital financial services platform with over 5.2 million members, offers an all-in-one app for Lending and Financial Services. Amidst a recovering economy, rapid growth in SoFi’s Banking, Investing, and Credit Card products intensified the challenge of managing extensive operational data across diverse business units while upholding compliant governance.
The increasing complexity and volume of data demanded a robust data management system to make information available in an analytical format for reporting and analysis, and created an opportunity to streamline their ongoing Snowflake migration. SoFi partnered with evolv Consulting for a solution, leveraging their reputation and history of client success, and their comprehensive data management expertise.
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action plan
evolv’s strategic approach began with cleaning and modeling the operational data of various business functions within SoFi to solve for data maintenance needs, while also ensuring future scalability with well-designed data architecture to enable a sustainable, smooth migration to Snowflake. The team identified a solution to implement team-based data marts for different products, resulting in compliant and functional data for each team.
This solution prioritized migrating any vital data necessary for maintaining compliance and reporting, customized data ingestion models to improve workflow efficiency, and utilized metadata for machine learning to capture dynamic risk factors and trends.
evolv also introduced a groundbreaking micrometrics architecture to minimize downtime and mitigate failure risks, optimizing operations and analytics, and streamlining the Snowflake migration with long-term ROI for SoFi.
Steps
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Cleaned and modeled SoFi’s operational data, ensuring future scalability with well-designed data architecture for a smooth migration to Snowflake.
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Implemented team-based data marts for different products, ensuring compliance and functionality for each team.
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Introducing micrometrics architecture to minimize downtime and optimize operations, Evolv streamlined the Snowflake migration with long-term ROI for SoFi.
Results
bolstered system resilience
by streamlining data processing and enhancing decision-making capabilities with micrometrics architecture, effectively minimizing downtime risk associated with large-scale failures.
Achieved cost and resource optimization
by increasing efficiency in data ingestion and management processes, while enhancing internal data sharing to foster cross-functional collaboration.
Improved data visualization and insights
that supported decision-making and strategic growth initiatives, providing better visibility and understanding across the organization.
