Data Architect

Are you wanting to work for an organisation that values their people, invests in communities and has a commitment to our environment? Do you share a passion for maintaining a continual focus on Making a Difference with Real Care to customers and employees? If this sounds like you, then we have your next opportunity.

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About O’Brien® Glass 

O’Brien® Glass is one of Australia’s most trusted household brands, known for delivering exceptional service and quality for over 100 years. With a national footprint and a strong commitment to innovation, we’re modernising the way we use data to support smarter decision making across the business. When you join O’Brien®, you join a team driven by values, collaboration, and a genuine focus on helping our people succeed. 

This role will be offered on an initial 24-month fixed term basis.

About the Role 

We’re looking for a Data Architect who can design, shape, and guide the evolution of the O’Brien® enterprise data ecosystem. If you love turning complex business needs into elegant, scalable data solutions—and want to be part of a global group (Belron®)—this may be your next great career move.

As the Data Architect, you’ll lead the design and governance of O'Brien’s enterprise data architecture, ensuring our data environments are secure, scalable, accessible, and built for the future. You will collaborate across teams and influence data strategy at a national and global level.

What You’ll Be Doing 

Data Architecture & Design

• Develop and maintain enterprisewide data architecture standards, models, and frameworks.

• Lead adoption of the group’s Enterprise Logical Data Model.

• Design conceptual, logical, and physical data models for operational and analytical workloads.

• Provide architecture governance for our modern data estate—including data lakes, data warehouses, ETL/ELT, and presentation layers.

• Ensure all solutions align with business strategy and the Belron® global technology roadmap.

Data Platform & Integration 

• Design and oversee data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and system integrations.

• Optimise ingestion, processing, and storage across cloud and onprem environments.

• Implement best practices for data security, lineage, metadata, and governance.

• Evaluate and recommend new tools, technologies, and architectural improvements.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with technical and business teams to understand data requirements.

• Work closely with IT leadership to support digital transformation and analytics initiatives.

• Provide architectural guidance to data engineering, BI and analytics teams.

• Collaborate with vendors, consultants, and external partners.

Performance & Continuous Improvement

• Monitor and optimise data flow performance, storage, and compute costs.

• Stay up-to-date with emerging data technologies and industry trends.

• Lead modernisation efforts for legacy platforms and enable new data capabilities.

What You’ll Bring

At O’Brien® we are Caring, Collaborative, Genuine and Driven. We call this our DNA, and it’s what we look when growing our teams. If you fit the DNA, you’ll fit here. In conjunction we are needing some with: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or similar.

• Proven experience as a Senior Data Architect, Data Architect, or similar senior data role.

• Strong conceptual, logical, and physical data modelling skills. 

• Handson expertise with Snowflake, SQL, and modern cloud data platforms (Azure or AWS).

• Experience designing data lakes, data warehouses, or lakehouse architectures.

• Solid understanding of ETL/ELT pipelines and integration frameworks.

• Strong knowledge of data governance, MDM, data quality, and metadata management.

• Exceptional communication skills—able to translate complex concepts into business-friendly language.

Nice to haves 

• Certifications such as CDMP, TOGAF, or cloud/data architecture credentials.

• Experience with Informatica MDM, big data or streaming tools (Spark, Databricks, Kafka).

• Experience in analytics/BI/reporting environments or data scienceenabling platforms.

• Industry experience in manufacturing, supply chain, automotive, or services.

• Experience with AWS Serverless Data lake Framework.

Why O’Brien

O’Brien is Australia’s market leader in vehicle glass repair and replacement part of the global Belron group operating in over 35 countries. We’re investing heavily in digital capability, customer experience, and operational excellence, giving you the tools, resources, and backing to deliver big ideas at scale. Here, you’ll join a high-performance, values-driven culture where collaboration, care, driven and genuine being our values aren’t just words they’re how we work every day.

Ready to shape the future of data at O’Brien®?

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If you meet the above criteria and you’re seeking a rewarding career with a nationally recognised household brand, then we would love to hear from you. Apply Now!

At O'Brien®, we put our customer at the heart of everything that we do, serving more than 360,000 Customers each year, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. O'Brien is also part of Belron®, worldwide leader in vehicle glass repair, replacement and recalibration services, operating in 40 countries across 6 continents

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