Staff Data Engineer (Data Architect) - Sydney/Melbourne

Xero
📍 Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia 💼 Full time 🕒 Posted July 25, 2026

Job Description

The Role

The role

You will lead the technical direction for our real-time streaming and analytics team, owning the architecture behind how we move financial and behavioural data at scale and making the design calls that keep our systems reliable as they grow. This position spans the full data lifecycle, from ingestion and streaming through data modelling, warehousing, and the data apps stakeholders use.

Much of your impact comes through others. You will partner with tech leaders across data engineering, including the platform, data modelling, and data engineering teams, and product teams like Auto Bank Reconciliation, while lending your expertise to other data products. You will not manage people, but you will raise the bar around you by mentoring engineers, reviewing designs, aligning teams on shared patterns, and turning hard problems into reusable solutions. Your work shows up directly in the product, ...

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Job Details

  • Location Hawthorn, Victoria
  • Job Type Full time
  • Category Computer Occupations
  • Posted Date July 25, 2026
  • Application Deadline September 03, 2026