Senior Data Engineer - Performance Insights & AI Layer

Xero; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Xero's G&A Data & Analytics team is seeking a Data Engineer to build data products, pipelines and a governed semantic layer in Snowflake. You will translate business concepts into metrics and definitions that enable trusted decision-making across Finance, PX and Legal.

You’ll collaborate across teams, implement dbt models, ensure data quality, and shape AI-enabled data access with a senior voice that mentors others and raises data standards.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building SQL data models with dbt for testing, documentation and snapshots.
• Ability to validate outputs and stand behind the numbers produced by models.
• Interest in AI-enabled data access and conversational data layers.

Responsibilities

• Build SQL data models with dbt for testing, documentation and snapshots.
• Validate outputs and stand behind the numbers.
• Shape AI-driven, conversational data access within G&A data.
• Collaborate with Finance, Legal and People teams to translate questions into trusted data products.
• Provide senior guidance, patterns and standards for the team.
• Seek simpler, more reliable modeling approaches.

Skills

SQL

Data modeling

Mentoring

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

dbt

Snowflake

Job description

Xero's G&A Data & Analytics team is seeking a Data Engineer to build data products, pipelines and a governed semantic layer in Snowflake. You will translate business concepts into metrics and definitions that enable trusted decision-making across Finance, PX and Legal.

You’ll collaborate across teams, implement dbt models, ensure data quality, and shape AI-enabled data access with a senior voice that mentors others and raises data standards.