Data Engineer – Performance Insights

Role Overview

As a Data Engineer in the G&A Data & Analytics team, you will build data products, pipelines, and semantic layers that power decision-making across Finance, People Experience, and Legal. You will design and maintain a governed semantic layer in Snowflake, translating business concepts into metrics, dimensions, and definitions that make data easy to trust and simple to use.

What You Will Do

You will build SQL data models with dbt, validate your outputs, and help shape the conversational and agentic layer we are building in G&A. You will work with Finance, Legal, and People teams to translate their questions into data products that are genuinely trusted and easy to use.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will have the opportunity to work on a role with real visibility and real stakes, where the quality and reliability of your work directly shapes how confidently Xero can report on its own performance. You will have the option to work in a hybrid capacity, combining the focus of remote work with the collaboration of our office spaces and team boost days to foster connection and alignment.

Requirements

• hands-on experience building SQL data models with dbt
• validating your own outputs comes naturally to you
• comfortable standing behind the numbers a model produces
• curiosity about how AI can make data more accessible
• ability to translate business questions into data products that are genuinely trusted and easy to use
• ability to act as a senior voice in the team, sharing patterns, mentoring others, and helping set a consistent standard for how we build