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Leads ML and platform engineering teams building scalable, production-grade machine learning infrastructure. Responsibilities include coaching engineers, guiding architecture and engineering trade-offs, improving MLOps maturity and observability, translating business goals into delivery plans, managing roadmaps, maintaining system health, and supporting production incidents through code review, debugging, or hands-on development. The role supports AI products including conversational GenAI, automated bank reconciliation, document capture, and cash-flow forecasting.

The Engineering Manager will lead software delivery teams, champion AI workflows, resolve technical challenges, and enhance engineering practices to meet business goals.

Design, build, and operate customer-facing front-end experiences for xero.com and signup journeys. Own end-to-end initiatives across front-end and back-end, improve performance, accessibility, and Core Web Vitals, deploy A/B experiments, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, design, growth, and platform teams to integrate services and CMS.

Lead technical initiatives to enhance engineering excellence, mentor teams, simplify challenges, and advocate for cloud-native architectures and DevOps practices.

Lead APAC payroll operations for Australia, New Zealand, and Asia; ensure compliance with local legislation; stabilize Ramco payroll; drive automation and Workday integrations; coach payroll leaders; partner with Finance and People; improve documentation and governance.

Support Xero's Payments business in legal compliance, providing regulatory advice for product innovation and managing payments capabilities. Collaborate with multiple teams to ensure compliance with AFSL and AML obligations, and build relationships with stakeholders.

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.

Lead product strategy for core cloud platform capabilities, manage and mentor product managers, drive architectural transformations (agent-first platform, multi-region cloud), modernise databases to managed cloud services, define customer journeys, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to prioritise and deliver scalable infrastructure features.

As a Senior Engineer, you'll develop AI workflows, lead delivery of AI agents, and integrate systems while collaborating with business teams to automate processes.

Provide expert HR advice and manage a caseload of performance matters (including PIPs and disciplinary processes) across NZ and Australia. Draft and quality-check performance documentation, coach people leaders on performance conversations, and use case insights to spot trends and recommend proactive interventions.