Lead a distributed data engineering team to design, build, and maintain core data models and real-time data flows on an AWS/Snowflake platform. Balance strategic architecture and hands-on delivery, manage risks and dependencies, establish SLOs and DataOps practices, and coach senior engineers to improve platform quality and performance.

Serve as the primary people analytics partner to HR leadership, building a trusted suite of workforce dashboards and scorecards, defining KPI metrics and guardrails, embedding people metrics into planning and forecasting, improving HR data literacy and self-service, and translating complex people data into actionable recommendations.

Lead Xero's shared Data Engineering function to execute data and platform strategy, deliver reliable self-service and AI-first data platforms, embed governance-by-design, improve observability and operational health, grow senior leadership, and enable domain teams through reusable platforms, patterns and guardrails.