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Dev Team — Backend Data Warehouse

The team responsible for warehouse administration, compute-credit governance, access control, query optimization, and cost attribution on the CDW. Distinct from data engineering — this team keeps the platform healthy so data engineering and analytics can use it effectively.

confidence 75%v1reviewed May 5, 2026tech-dimension, dev-team, data-warehouse, administration, cost-governance, access-control

Administers the cloud data warehouse at the platform level: warehouse sizing and auto-suspension policy (Snowflake), slot and reservation management (BigQuery), partition and clustering strategies, query-cost attribution, role-based access control, and backup/restore procedures. Distinct from tech-dim.dev-team.backend-data-engineering, which builds the pipelines that run on the warehouse; this team ensures the platform itself is performant, cost-governed, and secure.

Why this is a separate discipline. In organizations without a dedicated warehouse administration function, compute costs spiral as unconstrained warehouses run idle, access control drifts and creates compliance exposure, and long-running composable-stack queries consume disproportionate resources without attribution. Composable CDP economics depend on this function: the cost advantage over packaged CDPs evaporates when warehouse spend is ungoverned.

When this team is absent. Organizations typically experience cost overruns within 6 to 12 months of going composable at scale. The absence of this function is a leading indicator that a composable architecture will exceed budget projections.

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  • applies-whenarchetype.aep-heavy-enterprise-evaluating-composable— The archetype fires only when a CDW team (backend-data-warehouse dimension) exists and has grown organically alongside AEP. Without a CDW capability, there is no composable alternative to evaluate — the organization has no destination for CDW-computed audiences. The CDW dev team is the enabling condition for the composable evaluation itself.
  • applies-whenarchetype.salesforce-ecosystem-enterprise-evaluating-cdp— Salesforce ecosystem enterprises evaluating composable augmentation have or are building a CDW (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery) — the composable path requires CDW as canonical data layer.