Allan Cuthbertson

Explore how National Australia Bank (NAB) adopted Databricks Serverless across notebooks, jobs, declarative pipelines, SQL Warehouses and Model Serving—delivering platform reliability, cost efficiency and performance without compromising security or governance. Hear NAB’s blueprint: phased migration, workload prioritization and cross‑team operationalization. Learn the essentials—Unity Catalog for fine‑grained governance, plus Private Link and Secure Egress Gateway for private connectivity—and hard‑won lessons from uplifting Spark to declarative pipelines (DLT/LDP), moving SQL to serverless warehouses, and operationalizing model serving with observability and guardrails. Walk away with actionable patterns, checklists and success criteria for regulated environments. Outcomes include broad serverless adoption, faster MLOps cycles, better SQL performance, lower ingestion cost and sustained query scale—a pragmatic path to bank‑grade serverless at enterprise scale.