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Data Engineering

Automated Data Quality & Schema Drift Framework

A reusable, config-driven Databricks accelerator to detect schema drift, evaluate configurable data quality rules, quarantine failed records, score data quality, and publish clean Delta outputs inside Unity Catalog.

Language

Python

Deployment

Databricks Notebooks / Workflow

Type

Framework + Reference Code

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How it works

Detect schema changes and stop bad data before it reaches silver

Enterprise data pipelines often fail when source schemas change unexpectedly or when poor-quality rows move downstream without validation. Manual checks are difficult to scale across many tables, teams, and environments.

DataTheta’s Automated Data Quality & Schema Drift Framework helps teams run schema drift detection, configurable quality checks, quarantine workflows, scoring, and clean-table publishing natively inside Databricks and Unity Catalog. Teams only need to update configuration values, source tables, target schemas, and rule definitions in config.py.

  • Create Unity Catalog state tables for schema baselines, quality rules, check results, drift logs, quality scores, and quarantined rows.
  • Detect added, dropped, retyped, or reordered columns by comparing current Unity Catalog metadata against stored schema baselines.
  • Run configurable data quality rules such as not-null checks, duplicate-key checks, range validation, and referential integrity checks.
  • Quarantine failing records, publish clean rows to silver Delta tables, and log a 0–100 quality score for each evaluated table.
AI systems in production
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Faster decision cycles
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Revenue influenced by AI
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40+

AI systems in production

8 Weeks

Avg. time to first outcome

34%

Forecast accuracy improvement

3×

Faster decision cycles

$180M+

Revenue influenced by AI

68%

Manual processing eliminated

How it works

What this accelerator helps you do

Schema Drift Detection

Snapshot table schemas from Unity Catalog information_schema, compare them against stored baselines, and log schema changes before downstream layers are affected.

Configurable Quality Rules

Define not-null, duplicate-key, range, and referential integrity checks in configuration so teams can extend rules without rewriting core pipeline logic.

Quarantine Management

Move failed records into per-table quarantine Delta tables so bad data is isolated before clean outputs are published downstream.

Quality Scoring

Calculate and log data quality scores to help teams monitor quality trends, rule failures, and table-level readiness over time.

Config-Driven Reuse

Reuse the framework across teams and tables by changing only catalog names, schemas, registered tables, target tables, and rule definitions in config.py.

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