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Lead the technical direction, architecture, development, and operational health of Xero’s global bill-payments platform. Build highly available, secure, scalable backend services, contribute hands-on production code, solve distributed fintech problems, and guide technical planning. Partner with product, security, risk, legal, and operations teams while mentoring engineers, improving reliability and observability, leading on-call practices, and promoting AI-assisted engineering workflows.

Serve as a technical advisor and strategic partner for accounting practices, collaborating with sales teams to scope solutions, demonstrate Xero workflows, guide cloud implementations and migrations, and drive software adoption. Translate partner requirements into scalable strategies, resolve technical obstacles, identify risks, and support product feedback. The role requires accounting practice experience, consultative problem-solving, technical solution design, presentation skills, and familiarity with cloud accounting and workflow platforms.

Advises accounting firms on adopting Xero and digital accounting strategies. Builds trusted relationships with firm decision-makers, identifies operational needs, recommends practical technology solutions, and supports digital transformation within an assigned territory. The role is designed for CPA-qualified or experienced accounting professionals transitioning into relationship-driven SaaS sales and advisory work.

Lead employee journey improvements across People Experience and enterprise teams. Map end-to-end journeys, identify root causes, and design future-state experiences using self-service, automation, AI, and human support. Drive selected improvements from discovery through governed pilot, measurement, and handover. Build alignment among service owners and partners, clarify ownership and handoffs, influence without authority, and create reusable tools, playbooks, and coaching materials.

Owns payroll platforms, integrations, access, controls, reporting, and technical delivery across multiple regions. Translates Pay team needs into requirements, manages testing through launch, troubleshoots data flows and recurring errors, and improves workflows using automation and AI. Partners with Pay, Finance, Technology, and vendors to reduce reconciliation and journal errors while maintaining reliable payroll operations.

Own the roadmap for approximately 38 People and Payroll systems, including Workday, payroll, hiring, onboarding, learning, engagement, and wellbeing platforms. Lead a specialist team, prioritize improvements with cross-functional stakeholders, clarify technology ownership, manage vendors, support business cases, and protect payroll accuracy, data quality, privacy, and compliance. Drive self-service, automation, AI, user adoption, and improved employee and People team experiences.

Owns channel, brand, content, partnership, and event strategies for Xero For Good, a financial literacy program supporting underserved small businesses. Responsibilities include evaluating campaigns and partnerships, developing AI-supported content workflows, managing nonprofit relationships, delivering integrated campaigns and events, tracking budgets and performance, and creating a playbook for international expansion.

Lead Xero’s Cloud Networks team, setting direction and delivering a multi-year strategy across AWS and edge providers. Manage and develop seven engineers while balancing roadmap priorities with support requests and incidents. Oversee cloud networking, DNS, CDN, reliability, security, cost, technical debt, and modernization. Collaborate with Product, Security, and Cloud Capabilities teams, establish effective ways of working, and communicate decisions clearly to stakeholders.

Design and build scalable data solutions spanning ingestion, modelling, pipelines, and platform infrastructure. Own complex technical problems, improve data quality and self-service capabilities, and operate production systems with monitoring and incident response. Use Snowflake, dbt, Prefect, AWS, Terraform, and Flink to develop reliable data platforms and real-time products. Collaborate with product, security, engineering, and data-consuming teams while promoting automation, testing, CI/CD, and modern engineering practices.

Design, build, and operate production systems powering Xero’s ML, LLM, and agentic AI features. Responsibilities include backend services, orchestration, infrastructure, APIs, cloud deployment, observability, reliability, cost and latency optimization, incident response, and large-scale data processing. The role also involves establishing engineering standards, mentoring engineers, and partnering with scientists and cross-functional teams to deliver dependable AI products.