Engineering Team Lead - Security Operations

Summary

Join Xero and lead two Security Operations Engineering teams, Defence engineering and Workspace Security, responsible for developing tools for defense, threat intelligence, detection monitoring, and corporate security controls. As Engineering Team Lead, you will foster a collaborative and sustainable work environment, supporting your team's growth and operational health. You will focus on driving consistent, best-practice Security Operations, ensuring progress toward team goals. Responsibilities include coaching, leading, and developing high-performing teams, ensuring efficient delivery pipelines, and maintaining healthy, discoverable team products. You will also advocate for Xero Engineering Standards, contribute to development roadmaps, and maintain current knowledge of engineering tools. Finally, you will create a culture of psychological safety and inclusion.

Requirements

• You'll come with previous experience of managing software delivery and engineering teams using Lean and/or Agile techniques
• You'll be a seasoned coach & mentor; understanding why and how people learn
• You'll possess high EQ and a true growth mindset; understanding that competency is not fixed but is enhanced through dedication and hard work. You'll be self aware, self regulated, motivated and empathetic, with great interpersonal skills
• You'll have a strong understanding of the importance of Xero's Engineering standards and practices and are able to coach teams to adhere to them

Responsibilities

• Maintain a positive and constructive relationship between yourself, your product peers, and your team
• Coach, lead, and develop your people and teams to be a high performing, highly collaborative and highly engaged
• Ensure your team’s delivery pipeline is flowing at a predictable and sustainable pace, raising and addressing blockers as appropriate
• Ensure accurate, fit for purpose and sustainable delivery systems exist in your team. You'll be responsible for your team providing informed estimates, delivery forecasting, capacity planning, and associated reporting
• Ensure the health of all the teamʼs products is well understood by the team, discoverable by the wider organisation, and able to be addressed, should problems occur
• Understand and advocate the Xero Engineering Standards. Working as part of a leadership group, you’ll facilitate an engineering approach that is compliant to these standards and fosters sustainably excellent engineering
• Working with your peers in Product and your team, assist in the development roadmaps and plans which effectively and efficiently deliver business outcomes
• Maintain a current knowledge of engineering and delivery tools used in the development of Xero’s software applications
• Work with engineers to troubleshoot and resolve production issues, where appropriate. Ensure that post-incident learnings are collected and actioned
• Coach and enable your team toward effective and efficient delivery
• You will support your team to hone their engineering skills and grow as individuals in order to meet the capabilities required for the team
• Create a culture of psychological safety and inclusion. Ensure the health of your team is monitored, that all members of your team are empowered to raise ideas and concerns, and that everyone contributes to improvements in how the team works together

Benefits

• 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