New South Wales · Australia
Data & AI engineering, built in Australia.
Skopura is a data and AI engineering practice based in New South Wales, working with organisations across Australia. We close the gap between the data you already hold and the decisions you actually make.
Agentic AI engineering
LLM systems that do work, not demos. Agents that read your real data, take real actions, and fail safely when they shouldn't.
- Retrieval architecture over your own documents
- Tool-using agents wired into line-of-business systems
- Evaluation harnesses and regression suites
- Guardrails, cost ceilings and human-in-the-loop gates
Data platform engineering
The unglamorous layer everything else depends on. Warehouses, models and semantic layers that stay correct under load and under change.
- Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse and Databricks lakehouse builds
- dbt transformation layers with tested contracts
- Power BI semantic models and refresh optimisation
- Incremental refresh, partitioning and cost control
Fractional Head of Data & AI
For organisations that need senior judgement more than another contractor. Embedded leadership, hands on the keyboard when it matters: strategy and roadmap, defensible vendor decisions, team enablement and governance that survives an audit.
Productised automation
Recurring manual reporting and analysis turned into pipelines that run, watch for drift and alert you on their own.
Common questions
Do you work with organisations outside New South Wales?
Yes. Skopura is based in New South Wales and works with organisations across Australia. Most of the work runs remotely, with time on site when it genuinely helps.
Which platforms do you work with?
Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics and Databricks for the platform; dbt for transformation; Power BI for reporting; Azure AI Foundry and Claude (Anthropic) for AI systems.
What does a fractional Head of Data & AI do?
Owns the data strategy and platform roadmap, makes vendor and architecture decisions you can defend, lifts the in-house team and puts governance in place, for part of the week rather than as a full-time executive hire.
How does an engagement start?
With a thirty-minute call, no deck. If we're not the right firm for it, we'll say so and point you at who is.