OP Pohjola, Finland’s largest financial group, manages a highly regulated and complex data environment, with hundreds of applications and thousands of engineers. Today, its federated development model gives teams full lifecycle ownership, but data ingestion remains a critical bottleneck. Fragmented tools, strict access controls, unclear pipeline ownership, and reconciliation challenges slow delivery, raise costs, and complicate compliance. To overcome this, OP is deploying Lakeflow Connect. The solution automates ingestion, streamlines stakeholder interactions, consolidates tooling, and enables secure federated access—cutting setup time from months to days while improving reliability and compliance. The long-term vision: a unified data lake as the organization’s master system, powering analytics and operations, reducing costs, and making integration seamless.