Engineering Team Lead - Security Operations (Defence and Workspace Security)

What you’ll do

• Maintain a positive and constructive relationship between yourself, your product peers, and your team.
• Coach, lead, and develop your people and teams to be a high performing, highly collaborative and highly engaged. 
• Ensure your team’s delivery pipeline is flowing at a predictable and sustainable pace, raising and addressing blockers as appropriate.
• Ensure accurate, fit for purpose and sustainable delivery systems exist in your team. You'll be responsible for your team providing informed estimates, delivery forecasting, capacity planning, and associated reporting.
• Ensure the health of all the teamʼs products is well understood by the team, discoverable by the wider organisation, and able to be addressed, should problems occur.
• Understand and advocate the Xero Engineering Standards. Working as part of a leadership group, you’ll facilitate an engineering approach that is compliant to these standards and fosters sustainably excellent engineering.
• Working with your peers in Product and your team, assist in the development roadmaps and plans which effectively and efficiently deliver business outcomes.
• Maintain a current knowledge of engineering and delivery tools used in the development of Xero’s software applications. 
• Work with engineers to troubleshoot and resolve production issues, where appropriate. Ensure that post-incident learnings are collected and actioned.
• Coach and enable your team toward effective and efficient delivery.
• You will support your team to hone their engineering skills and grow as individuals in order to meet the capabilities required for the team.
• Create a culture of psychological safety and inclusion. Ensure the health of your team is monitored, that all members of your team are empowered to raise ideas and concerns, and that everyone contributes to improvements in how the team works together.

What you’ll bring with you

• You'll come with previous experience of managing software delivery and engineering teams using Lean and/or Agile techniques. 
• You'll be a seasoned coach & mentor; understanding why and how people learn. 
• You'll possess high EQ and a true growth mindset; understanding that competency is not fixed but is enhanced through dedication and hard work. You'll be self aware, self regulated, motivated and empathetic, with great interpersonal skills. 
• You'll have a strong understanding of the importance of Xero's Engineering standards and practices and are able to coach teams to adhere to them.