Data architecture & platforms
Warehouse and lakehouse design on Snowflake, Databricks or BigQuery, with infrastructure as code and cost controls from day one.
17.7° N, 64.8° W · Christiansted, St. Croix
Mainland-grade data engineering, built on island time zones and U.S. law.
We design and run cloud data platforms for U.S. companies, and bring the same rigor to ocean and tourism data in the Caribbean. Your data stays in U.S. cloud regions. Our team works from St. Croix.
- Jurisdiction
- U.S. territory · USD
- Time zone
- AST = EDT in summer
- Hosting
- U.S. mainland cloud regions
- Uptime design
- 3 network paths + solar
01 — Services
From messy sources to trusted numbers.
We work across the modern data stack and pick tools that fit your team, not ours.
Pipelines & analytics engineering
Reliable ingestion, dbt models, tests and orchestration so dashboards stop breaking every Monday.
Governance & AI readiness
Catalogs, access policies, data quality monitoring and governed retrieval, so AI projects start on clean, permissioned data.
02 — Sectors
Three markets, one engineering standard.
Remote U.S. clientsCore
Data teams on demand for the mid-market
Fractional data engineering for companies without a large in-house team: healthcare, logistics, fintech, e-commerce and SaaS. Onshore compliance without mainland overhead.
Marine & coastalBlue economy
Ocean data you can actually query
Sensor and buoy pipelines, satellite and bathymetry data lakes, reef-health dashboards, sargassum tracking and coastal risk models for agencies, researchers and NGOs.
Tourism & hospitalityLocal
Know next season before it arrives
Booking and revenue dashboards, demand forecasts using flight capacity and cruise calls, and one view of guest data across PMS, OTA and POS systems.
03 — Why St. Croix
An onshore alternative to offshore.
St. Croix hosts the territory's main subsea fiber landing in Frederiksted, linked across the islands by an open-access fiber network. We pair that with the protections U.S. clients already expect.
- Same legal system. U.S. contracts, U.S. dollars, U.S. courts. No cross-border data transfer questions.
- Same working day. Atlantic Standard Time matches U.S. Eastern for most of the year.
- Your data never lives on-island. Workloads run in mainland U.S. cloud regions; we connect through secured, monitored access.
- Built for storm season. Primary fiber, a second provider and satellite failover, backed by solar and battery power and a tested continuity plan.
- Invested locally. We train Virgin Islands engineers through a paid apprenticeship with the University of the Virgin Islands.
04 — Engagements
Clear scopes. Published starting points.
Every engagement starts with a fixed-scope conversation. Prices below are typical starting ranges.
Platform assessment
$18K–$40K fixed
2–5 weeks. Current-state review, target architecture, cost model and a prioritized roadmap.
- Stakeholder interviews
- Architecture & cost review
- 90-day roadmap
Managed data operations
$9K–$30K / month
A fractional data team that builds, monitors and improves your platform month after month.
- 60–200 engineering hours
- Pipeline monitoring & on-call
- Monthly roadmap review
Platform build
$75K–$250K project
Design and delivery of a warehouse or lakehouse, from ingestion to governed dashboards.
- Ingestion & modeling
- Testing & CI/CD
- Handover & training
Hospitality Data Starter
$7.5Ksetup + from $900/mo
For hotels, villa managers and tour operators in the Virgin Islands.
- PMS, OTA & POS connected
- Revenue dashboard
- Seasonal forecast add-on
05 — How we work
Four steps, no surprises.
- Week 0
Discovery call
30 minutes on goals, systems and constraints.
- Week 1
Fixed-scope proposal
Deliverables, timeline and price in writing.
- Weeks 2+
Build in the open
Weekly demos, shared repo, documented decisions.
- Ongoing
Run & improve
Monitoring, cost tuning and new use cases.
06 — Contact
Tell us what your data should be doing.
We reply within one business day. Prefer email? Write to hello@cruciandataworks.com.
Christiansted, St. Croix
U.S. Virgin Islands 00820