046 - Rebuilding Monzo's Data Warehouse from the Ground Up

Monzo went from zero rules to one of the most opinionated data architectures in fintech — and cut warehouse costs by 40%+ doing it.Bruno Campos, Analytics Engineer at Monzo, joins Harry to unpack the rebuild of Monzo's entire data platform — tens of thousands of dbt models, hundreds of teams, one BigQuery warehouse, and a migration that's still only 30-40% done.Bruno breaks down Monzo's new "OOM" architecture: four fixed layers, data contracts between teams, and an internally-built tool (ModelGen) that turns a YAML file into standardised SQL. The result — faster builds, easier onboarding, and serious cost savings that show up on the GCP bill.They also get into why "data" as a discipline is still, in Bruno's words, "incredibly immature" — and what it'll take to fix that.In this episode: Why Monzo moved from a free-form warehouse to a heavily opinionated one The four-layer OOM model: landing, normalized, logical, presentation Interface models — Monzo's version of data contracts between teams How ModelGen automates standardisation across 100+ teams The real cost and time savings from re-architecting at scale Bruno's take on AI's role in analytics engineering — and why the job isn't going anywhere