Role overview

As a Data Engineer in Xero’s G&A Data & Analytics team, you will build data products, pipelines and semantic layers that support decision-making across Finance, People Experience and Legal functions. Your work will directly influence how Xero reports on its financial performance, workforce health and operational metrics to its leadership, board and the market.

Key responsibilities

Design and maintain a governed semantic layer in Snowflake that translates business concepts into trusted metrics, dimensions and definitions.
Build and test dbt models and snapshots that support monthly financial and workforce reporting cycles.
Develop data products that integrate revenue streams from recent acquisitions into a consolidated reporting model.
Extend the semantic layer to enable more G&A reporting to be answered conversationally, with appropriate guardrails in place.
Work across Finance, People Experience and Legal teams to translate their questions into data products that are trusted and easy to use.
Validate your own outputs and stand behind the accuracy and reliability of the numbers your models produce.
Share patterns and best practices with the team, mentor others and help establish consistent standards for how the team builds data solutions.

Requirements

Hands-on experience building SQL data models using dbt for testing, documentation and snapshotting.
Demonstrated ability to validate data outputs and take ownership of model accuracy.
Comfort with exploring how AI can make data more accessible, as you help shape the conversational and agentic layer the team is building.
Ability to think beyond obvious solutions and identify simpler, more reliable approaches to data modelling and validation.
Strong communication skills to work across multiple business functions and translate complex requirements into data products.
Senior-level capability to contribute beyond your individual work, whether through mentoring, establishing standards or sharing architectural patterns.

What makes this role worth considering

You will work on data that has real visibility and stakes within the organisation, directly shaping how confidently Xero reports on its own performance. The team is actively building emerging AI and agentic capabilities alongside Snowflake and dbt infrastructure, giving you the opportunity to shape how conversational data access develops. Xero offers a flexible hybrid working model that balances remote focus time with in-office collaboration and team connection days.