Our Purpose
At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. 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 data engineer in the Marketing Data Science, Analytics & Insights team, you will be responsible for engineering large and complex data sets, as well as build robust, reusable and optimized data pipelines. You will have broad technical skills of developing and implementing data pipelines as well as data infrastructure to support the implementation of data transformation for analytics, business intelligence, machine learning models and other data projects.
What you’ll do
- Create integration between Xero’s Kafka infrastructure, Customer Data platform and other OLAP systems
- Deploy data pipelines following DevOps principles and incorporating automated code & data testing.
- Demonstrates a focus on continual self improvement, across both the technical and business aspects of delivering high quality data enrichment solutions
- Provide support to data quality and data validation through analysis of data and assisting in understanding the meaning of data
- Help drive continuous improvements to data quality procedures and a consistent approach to how data quality is measured, monitored and reported.
- Work on incident management, service requests, enhancements/changes and audits
What you’ll bring with you
- Strong data and technical background demonstrating innovation, initiative and a passion for data
- 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
- 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
- CDP implementation experience is plus
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.
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What the Team is Saying
What We Do
Xero is a global small business platform with 3.95 million subscribers which includes a core accounting solution, payroll, workforce management, expenses and projects. Xero also has an extensive ecosystem of connected apps and connections to banks and other financial institutions helping small businesses access a range of solutions from within Xero’s open platform to help them run their business and manage their finances.
Why Work With Us
Xero is not like most companies. When you join Xero, you become part of something beautiful —a global community of people who are passionate about making an impact on the world. It’s a place where you can truly be yourself and find success in a way that’s meaningful to you.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Join us from home or at one of our beautiful workspaces. Xero has offices in Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Singapore, and South Africa.
