Blueprint: How Unilever Utilizes Metadata to Power its Lakehouse

Blueprint, Unilever's metadata framework, is a huge leap forward in Unilever's Lakehouse management with key capabilities:

• Self-Service Engineering - enabling business engineers to build, reducing bottle-necks
• Reusable Use Case Tooling - promoting method reapplication and engineer mobility
• Unity Catalog Integration for simplified access and metadata management
• Easier handover to BAU teams through metadata
• Downstream PowerBI Data Model Integration via Enhanced API and XMLA endpoint
• Transparent Operation Monitoring for improved operational visibility and performance

This framework has brought us together as a team and increased development speed tenfold. Serving over 3,000 users with its downstream capabilities, Blueprint significantly advances Unilever's data engineering, setting new efficiency and scalability standards in our Lakehouse architecture.