Team Lead - Data Engineering (DevOps)

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3 Locations
Hybrid
Senior level
Cloud • Fintech • Information Technology • Machine Learning • Software
At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business.
The Role
Lead a team of data engineers to manage complex data sets, optimize data pipelines and ensure data quality standards while collaborating with various stakeholders to achieve project goals.
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Our Purpose
At Xero, we’re here to help supercharge small businesses. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

How you’ll make an impact

As a Team lead - Data engineering in the Marketing Data Science, Analytics & Insights team, you will be responsible for leading some of Xero’s brightest data engineers in large and complex data sets, as well as build robust, reusable and optimized data pipelines. 

Our Data Engineering team helps deliver data and analytics to our customers, who include data scientists, analysts, product owners within the marketing team. This team provisions data pipelines and solutions that enable Xero to deliver on its exciting data and analytics strategy. This team also develops high-quality data architectures and processes that enable data to be processed and consumed in the way our organization can best leverage it.

What you’ll do

  • Proactive and people centered leadership fostering an environment where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged and celebrated.
  • Ensure the team delivers on our goals on time while adhering to our quality standards and principles.
  • Prioritises and takes responsibility for work requested by your portfolio area and demonstrates high levels of accountability.
  • Help drive continuous improvements to data quality procedures and a consistent approach to how data quality is measured, monitored and reported.
  • Liaise with architecture, security, product managers and marketers to ensure all deliveries are supported by the correct architectural implementation. 
  • Work on incident management,  service requests, enhancements/changes and audits.

What you’ll bring with you

  • Critical competencies
  • Strong people skills with an ability to keep the team motivated towards learning and delivery.
  • Confidence in collecting, collating and interpreting business requirements in order to produce quality outcomes
  • Good time management with the ability  to multitask, prioritize and deliver to schedule
  • Highly motivated and proactive nature,  constantly looking at methods for  improvement
  • Solution focused and has strong attention to detail
  • Experience working with Business Owners and different stakeholders to gather  data requirements and provide solutions

  • Technical
  • CI/CD tools like Teamcity, GitHub Actions Jenkins, Harness or Circle.c
  • Infrastructure as code utilities like Terraform, Cloudformation.
  • Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Good knowledge of SQL,  Snowflake, dbt, Python, AWS, AWS Serverless (Lambda Functions), SQS, -SNS, S3, Glue,
  • Clear and concise oral & written communication including technical  documentation
  • Experienced in orchestration tools (such as Apache Airflow, Prefect)
  • Proficient in roll out and maintenance of cloud infrastructure
  • Knowledge of data requirements for ML /  AI use cases beneficial

Why Xero? 
Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.

Top Skills

Apache Airflow
AWS
Aws Serverless
Ci/Cd Tools
CircleCI
CloudFormation
Dbt
Docker
Github Actions
Glue
Harness
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Lambda Functions
Prefect
Python
S3
Snowflake
Sns
SQL
Sqs
Teamcity
Terraform

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The Company
HQ: Wellington
4,500 Employees
Year Founded: 2006

What We Do

Xero is small business accounting software that provides a platform on which businesses can build a fully integrated solution. It’s designed to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. Xero minimises tedious admin by automating routine tasks, delivers valuable insights when needed, and brings together business data, trusted advisors, and powerful apps in one intuitive platform. By alleviating pain points, Xero empowers small business owners to supercharge their business, simplifying the complex and freeing up time from manual admin so they can focus on what really matters to build the business they’ve always envisaged.

Why Work With Us

We believe that by simplifying the complex we're not only making life better for small business, we’re helping to create a stronger, more vibrant economy. When you join this team, you’re impacting local communities, on a global scale. Being a Fast Co. Best Workplace for Innovators is a direct reflection of our creative, curious culture.

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