Building a custom Tableau provider for Airflow at JLR

The Data Flowcast: Mastering Apache Airflow ® for Data Engineering and AI · Jun 4, 2026 · 21m · transcript

JLR is the UK's largest automotive manufacturer, behind brands like Range Rover, Jaguar, Defender, and Discovery. In this episode, Najeeb Sulaiman, Senior Data Engineer at JLR, walks through how Airflow orchestrates data across manufacturing, supply chain, and finance — including a custom Tableau provider his team built (after the community version dropped PAT authentication) and a CI/CD pipeline that validates DAGs before they reach production.

Key Takeaways:

00:00 Introduction.

00:48 What JLR makes: luxury vehicles under the Range Rover, Jaguar, Defender, and Discovery brands.

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