Data engineering & platforms
A platform is not finished when data lands. It is finished when a named owner can change it safely, prove its quality and explain its lineage to a regulator.
Launch model
Core
Boundary
Platform operations beyond business hours are staged or partner-enabled.
Accountable principal
Sim Cuthbert
When to engage
Four observable triggers.
- 01Reporting disagrees with itself across two systems of record.
- 02A migration has stalled between proof of concept and production.
- 03Pipelines run, but nobody can say who owns a broken one.
- 04Data quality is discussed in meetings rather than measured in code.
What we deliver
Modules, artefacts and ownership.
Client inputs, dependencies and the operating owner are agreed before the first sprint, not discovered during it.
- Lakehouse and warehouse architecture
- Batch, streaming and integration engineering
- Data products, contracts and semantics
- Quality, metadata and lineage
- DataOps, IaC and release control
Ways to begin
Fixed scope, stated exclusions.
Modern Data Foundation
Target architecture, first production pipeline or data product, quality controls, IaC and handover
Can we establish a reusable platform pattern?Automation & Integration Accelerator
Process and API blueprint, first priority automation, observability, security and standards
How do we connect work without more fragility?Proof
Programme intelligence for a national broadband rollout
A programme data platform with an explicit KPI contract, reconciled site status model, governed pipelines and an executive intelligence layer with alerting.
Delivered by our principal while at a national delivery organisation.
Read the full outcomeRisk and assurance
Security, privacy, AI assurance, accessibility, data quality and human oversight are tested as acceptance criteria on this practice — not appended as a closing report.
- Standards
- WCAG 2.2 AA, Essential Eight and ISM mapping where in scope.
- Data residency
- Australian by default; offshore processing named and approved in writing.
- Support boundary
- Platform operations beyond business hours are staged or partner-enabled.
- Response standard
- Principal response within one business day, AWST.