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Lead the technical direction of Xero’s front-end platform across multiple engineering teams. Guide React and TypeScript standards, shared tooling, CI/CD improvements, performance, accessibility, developer experience, and legacy modernization. Influence technical roadmaps, design scalable and secure systems, collaborate across engineering, product, and design, and coach engineers. The role combines hands-on front-end engineering with strategic platform leadership and requires experience with automated testing, TDD, distributed architectures, and AI-assisted development.

Lead delivery of customer-focused full-stack software using React, Redux, C#, ASP.NET, and SQL Server. Refactor monolithic WebForms systems into distributed architectures on AWS, develop AI-assisted workflows and production AI tools, and contribute to CI/CD, testing, system reliability, incident response, and on-call support. Drive cross-team initiatives, influence engineering direction, mentor colleagues, and build SDKs or internal libraries where needed.

Lead the technical vision, security, CI/CD, data governance, monitoring, release engineering, and AI operations strategy for Xero’s enterprise Salesforce platform. The role combines hands-on Salesforce development with architecture, platform reliability, compliance, automation, and engineering enablement. Responsibilities include coaching engineers, modernizing deployment pipelines, managing platform risk and limits, overseeing D360 integrations, and establishing standards for Agentforce and AI operations.

Design, build, and operate an internal AI skills marketplace and distribution platform. Own end-to-end delivery from experimentation to production, create runbooks, monitoring, rollback plans, and provide guidance on authoring agent skills while collaborating with vendors and engineering teams.

Build and ship complex React Native mobile features for Xero’s accounting app, owning work from technical design through production operation. Evolve scalable mobile architecture, improve performance, reliability, security, observability, and engineering efficiency, and collaborate across Product, Design, backend, platform, and web teams. Mentor engineers, contribute to technical decisions, participate in incident response and post-mortems, and use automation and AI-assisted development to accelerate delivery.

Supports the design, improvement, and operation of security detection and response capabilities. Monitors and investigates alerts, contributes to SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and cloud security workflows, builds detections and integrations, and develops runbooks, playbooks, dashboards, and automations. The role collaborates with security, engineering, product, customer experience, and legal teams while developing engineering skills through guided delivery, pairing, incident participation, and continuous learning.

Build and rapidly deploy internal AI-powered tools and automations that reduce operational toil. Integrate Jira, Confluence, Workday, and data warehouses through APIs; automate reporting, headcount management, and roadmapping workflows; evaluate custom, low-code, and SaaS solutions; prototype scalable AI-enabled improvements; and mentor operations teams in modern AI tooling.

Lead Xero’s SRE team and reliability program across APAC and EMEA. Own HA/DR testing, incident command, reliability gap remediation, and improvements to detection, response, and prevention. Partner with platform, observability, database reliability, and shared services teams while reducing customer-detected incidents. Build and mentor a distributed engineering team, establish reliability practices, and maintain calm, effective incident response across time zones.

Owns customer incident management from investigation and impact assessment through resolution and post-incident review. Coordinates engineering, product, support, leadership, and regional teams during high-pressure incidents; leads customer communications; develops incident processes and registers; and recommends improvements to reduce recurrence and customer disruption.

Lead strategy and execution for Xero’s AI Shared Services platform, including eventing, communications, search, and related reusable capabilities. Define the domain roadmap, establish success metrics and dashboards, build stakeholder relationships, and drive adoption across product and engineering teams. The role requires managing interdependent platform products, applying technical fluency across distributed systems and cloud environments, making investment cases, navigating ambiguity and dependencies, and growing high-performing people and teams.