Australian homewares and furniture retailer modernizing data infrastructure
Adairs is a 40-year-old Australian home furnishings retailer scaling toward modern data operations. The tech stack shift—adopting Azure Data Factory, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric while phasing out SQL Server—signals a move from legacy on-premise analytics to cloud-native data lakes. Hiring skews heavily toward sales (63 roles) and retail (26), but the active data migration and transformation roadmap projects suggest internal pressure to unlock customer insights and inventory accuracy from fragmented tooling.
Adairs operates a multi-channel home furnishings business across Australia and New Zealand, selling manchester, homewares, and furniture through physical stores and digital channels. The company employs 1,001–5,000 staff and maintains headquarters in Chadstone, Victoria. Current operational focus centers on three areas: expanding physical retail footprint (new Bondi Junction store), modernizing customer data and journey mapping, and addressing inventory accuracy and stock reporting gaps that constrain store and workforce planning decisions.
Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, SQL Server Integration Services, Python, SQL, Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, and Active Directory. Adairs is phasing out SQL Server in favor of cloud data platforms.
Key projects include a new Bondi Junction store opening, customer journey transformation, data migration to a modern data lake, inventory and stock management improvements, and workforce planning optimization.
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