Senior Architect - Catalyst Engineering

Remote, NZ / Remote, AU / Sydney, AU / Auckland, NZ Technology – Architecture & Integration / Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive. At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place. About the Team Xero’s ‘Catalyst Engineering’ portfolio is our platform engineering and enablement function, responsible for powering Xero’s engineers and our Partner Ecosystem with the platforms and toolchains to rapidly build innovative, robust and secure products that meet the needs of Xero’s customers. The team are at the forefront of technology adoption for Xero and include some of the best and brightest technology talent in the locations where we operate. About the Role The mission of Architects at Xero is to ensure that Xero’s technologies and technical direction will support our long-term business goals. We deliver visualised clarity, frame the future, provide goldilocks governance, demystify complexity and bridge between worlds. As an Architect aligned to the Catalyst Engineering portfolio, you will work closely with Product Managers and Engineering leaders to ensure that the technical capabilities of our platforms and toolchains evolve in step with the products that they support. You will work with product architects and engineers to drive the adoption of new and evolving platform capabilities and best practices within their products. Internal to the team you will bring the leadership, customer obsession and technical depth required to build strong working relationships with your product and engineering counterparts.

What you’ll bring with you

• Experience working as an Architect or Principal Engineer in a Platform Engineering function
• Experience implementing developer platforms that delivered one or more of the following capabilities in a cloud-native context: Compute, Databases, Identity and Access Management, Full-lifecycle API management, Event / Message-based Integration, Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery, Observability, Networking
• Experience implementing an Internal Developer Portal is desirable
• In-depth knowledge of cloud providers, ideally AWS but also GCP or Azure.
• Experience with domain-driven design, synchronous and asynchronous integration of complex data driven systems.
• Demonstrated ability to translate between high-level business strategy to an actionable platform roadmap
• Working knowledge of agile software development methodologies.
• Familiarity with information security vulnerabilities and risk management.
• Familiarity with data privacy and compliance requirements.

Why Xero Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, free medical insurance, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero. Our collaborative and inclusive culture is one we’re immensely proud of. We know that a diverse workforce is a strength that enables businesses, including ours, to better understand and serve customers, attract top talent and innovate successfully. At Xero we embrace diversity and inclusion and value a #challenge mindset. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience . If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be just the right person for this role and Xero. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application and throughout the interview process. Xero is an NZ Immigration Accredited Employer and Rainbow Tick certified too. #J-18808-Ljbffr