Founder-led senior consulting

Practical data leadership for organisations ready to move.

Stack Sphere is the consulting practice of Andy Sawyer, helping organisations strengthen data strategy, modernise platforms, improve governance, and deliver analytics, AI and automation outcomes that are commercially useful - not just technically interesting.

Interim Head of Data
Data strategy
Platform modernisation
Governance & quality
AI & automation
Services

How Stack Sphere helps

Designed for organisations that need senior support across advisory, transformation, delivery leadership, capability uplift, or hands-on data modernisation.

Strategy, roadmap & operating model

Clarify priorities, shape practical roadmaps, define decision rights, and align data capability to business outcomes, risk obligations and delivery capacity.

  • Data strategy and roadmap development
  • Target operating model and team design
  • Stakeholder alignment and executive engagement

Platform, engineering & governance uplift

Improve architecture, pipelines, modelling practices, data quality visibility, stewardship and platform delivery so the foundation is reliable and scalable.

  • Warehouse and integration modernisation
  • Governance, stewardship and quality management
  • Delivery practices, CI/CD and engineering uplift

Interim & fractional Head of Data

Senior data leadership available to your organisation without the cost of a permanent hire - ideal when you need strategic direction, a step-up in delivery pace, or capability that isn't yet in the team.

  • Interim or fractional Head of Data engagement
  • Strategic advisory and executive stakeholder support
  • Analytics, AI and automation tied to business value
Experience

Enterprise, consulting and scale-up depth

Andy’s background spans listed enterprises, private equity-backed multinationals and scale-ups, with leadership across data engineering, business intelligence, automation, enterprise systems and consulting.

Representative roles

  • Head of Data - Easy Agile
  • Senior Manager, Data Engineering - Lendi Group
  • Head of Consulting (Data, Analytics & Reporting) - BoomData
  • Finance Systems Manager - Merivale
  • Head of Business Intelligence & Enterprise Systems - GenesisCare

Selected outcomes

  • Established new teams and restructured data capability for stronger delivery
  • Implemented governance, quality and modelling frameworks
  • Built greenfield warehouses and scalable integration patterns
  • Delivered AI, semantic layer and automation use cases in production settings
Easy Agile
Lendi Group
BoomData
Merivale
GenesisCare
About

Commercially grounded, technically credible

Stack Sphere is intentionally positioned as a founder-led practice: senior enough to talk strategy with executives, practical enough to help teams make real delivery progress.

About Andy Sawyer

Andy Sawyer is a strategic data leader with a background in finance, enterprise systems, business intelligence, data engineering and consulting. As a Certified Practising Accountant, he brings rare commercial depth to data leadership - able to frame data investment in CFO terms, align delivery with business objectives, and engage credibly at board and executive level.

  • Reports effectively from C-suite through to operational teams
  • Comfortable across strategy, transformation and execution
  • Known for translating complexity into practical action

Qualifications & credentials

A business and data background that bridges the commercial and the technical.

  • CPA Australia - Certified Practising Accountant
  • AICD - Member, Australian Institute of Company Directors
  • Graduate Certificate in Data Science (Distinction)
  • Certified SAFe 6 Practitioner
Contact

Need senior data support without the overhead of a full-time executive hire?

Stack Sphere is available for consulting, advisory and interim leadership engagements. Reach out to discuss your needs - no obligation, no sales process.

andy@stack-sphere.com.au

Business details

Business Stack Sphere
Founder Andy Sawyer
Location Sydney, NSW, Australia
ABN 24 219 617 128