What you'll do
- Lead the Data Protection team by coaching, mentoring, and connecting their work directly to Xero's strategic goals.
- Lead Data Loss Prevention (DLP) controls to protect sensitive data across Xero’s environments; expanding our identity governance capabilities, ensuring scalable and efficient user access reviews, provisioning, and entitlements management across AWS and GCP.
- Develop and implement Continuous Assurance capabilities, automating security controls to support ISO, SOC2, and other regulatory attestations.
- Oversee the Identity Management Engine, ensuring it meets business needs while enabling self-service access control for teams.
- Work closely with the SASE program team to integrate data security policies into Xero’s cloud and network security architecture.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure alignment between security governance, compliance, and business objectives; streamlining audit processes, with the aim of reducing the manual effort required for security certifications.
What you'll bring with you
- Proven people leadership skills, leading a team (or teams) of Engineers; including a background of software delivery and strong understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC).
- Strong expertise in Security Governance, Identity Governance, Compliance Automation, and Data Protection.
- Experience implementing and managing Identity Governance solutions (e.g., user access reviews, provisioning automation).
- Experience leading Data Protection initiatives, including DLP implementations in cloud and hybrid environments.
- Strong knowledge of SASE, Zero Trust, and cloud security principles, ensuring security is scalable and frictionless.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence without authority and align security priorities with business needs.
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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.
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