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Anika Sutherland

Practice Manager - Hybrid Cloud

Canberra · Canberra, ACT · anika.sutherland@data3.com.au

Hybrid Cloud Practice Manager with 8+ years delivering Azure solutions across government and regulated industries

Energy & UtilitiesHealthcareProfessional ServicesState Government

About

Anika Sutherland leads Data#3's Hybrid Cloud practice, overseeing a team of approximately 25 engineers and architects across Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. She is responsible for utilisation, hiring, capability development, and practice P&L while remaining actively involved in key bids as the technical owner. With a background as a Principal Azure Architect, Anika brings deep technical expertise to her leadership role.

Experience

  1. 2022-07 — Present
    Current
    Practice Manager - Hybrid Cloud
    Data#3

    Leads the national Hybrid Cloud practice, managing ~25 cloud engineers and architects. Owns utilisation targets, hiring strategy, technical capability programs, and full practice P&L. Continues to act as technical lead on major opportunities.

    • Grew practice headcount by 40% while maintaining utilisation above 82%
    • Improved practice margin by 7 percentage points through targeted capability development
    • Personally owns technical oversight for accounts with combined annual revenue >$18m
  2. 2020-03 — 2022-06
    Principal Cloud Architect
    Data#3

    Senior technical leadership role focused on complex Azure and hybrid cloud solutions for government and enterprise clients.

    • Designed and delivered enterprise landing zones for two Tier-1 government departments
    • Mentored team of 8 architects and led technical streams on multi-million dollar programs
  3. 2019-01 — 2020-02
    Azure Solutions Architect
    Microsoft Australia

    Worked within the Microsoft partner ecosystem supporting strategic Australian customers on cloud adoption and modernisation.

    • Supported several large-scale Azure migrations for critical national infrastructure clients
  4. 2017-06 — 2018-12
    Cloud Infrastructure Lead
    NSW Health

    Led cloud infrastructure initiatives within the Health Infrastructure division, focusing on secure hybrid environments for clinical systems.

Projects

  1. SAP on Azure Migration Program
    2022-11 — 2024-02
    Origin Energy · Energy & Utilities · as Bid Technical Owner & Oversight Lead

    Led the successful technical bid and subsequent delivery oversight for a $9.2m SAP migration program, completing the move of 3 production landscapes 5 weeks ahead of schedule with zero unplanned downtime.

    Azure MigrateAzure NetApp FilesSAP HANA on AzureAzure Site Recovery
  2. State-wide Health Data Platform Migration to Hybrid Cloud
    2023-01 — 2023-10
    Victorian Department of Health · Healthcare · as Practice Manager & Technical Owner

    Oversaw the migration of sensitive health datasets to a sovereign hybrid platform, achieving 99.98% availability while maintaining full compliance with Victorian Protective Data Security Standards.

    Azure Stack HCIAzure Data FactoryAzure PurviewAzure Private LinkBicep
  3. ACT Health Azure Landing Zone & Clinical Workloads Migration
    2021-02 — 2022-05
    ACT Health Directorate · Healthcare · as Principal Cloud Architect

    Successfully migrated 140 clinical applications to a secure sovereign landing zone, reducing infrastructure costs by 34% and improving disaster recovery capability from RTO 48hrs to under 4hrs.

    Azure Landing ZonesAzure PolicyAzure SentinelAzure Kubernetes ServiceExpressRoute
  4. Hybrid Cloud SCADA Platform Modernisation
    2020-08 — 2021-11
    Energy Queensland · Energy & Utilities · as Solution Lead

    Delivered a hybrid SCADA platform enabling real-time grid analytics across 18,000km of network, resulting in 22% reduction in unplanned outages and $4.2m annual operational savings.

    Azure ArcAzure IoT HubAzure Synapse AnalyticsAzure Stack HCITerraform
  5. Whole-of-Government Azure Cloud Strategy & Governance Framework
    2019-09 — 2020-06
    Queensland Treasury · State Government · as Lead Architect

    Developed and implemented a standardised cloud governance model adopted by 11 Queensland government agencies, accelerating cloud adoption by 18 months and establishing consistent security and compliance controls.

    Azure GovernanceAzure BlueprintsMicrosoft Cloud Adoption FrameworkPower BIAzure AD
  6. Deloitte Cloud Centre of Excellence Build-Out
    2018-03 — 2018-12
    Deloitte Australia · Professional Services · as Technical Lead

    Established Deloitte's internal Azure CoE, enabling delivery of 27 client cloud projects in the first year with 95% on-time delivery rate and creation of 14 reusable solution accelerators.

    Azure DevOpsGitHub EnterpriseAzure API ManagementServiceNowITIL Processes