Senior Architect - Machine Learning

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. The savvy use of data underpins every aspect of our product development at Xero. As a Senior Architect in the Data Team you will connect with delivery teams, technical specialists, and business leaders to tackle organisation defining challenges.  Your work will empower Xeros to deliver ML-inside products that help small businesses and their accountants focus on what matters. You will also collaborate with other architects to establish a vision and roadmap to achieve our data discoverability, coherence and governance goals. About the team: Architects are part of the Architecture and Integration team that sits within Xero's Technology group. You'll be embedded in the Data team, working collaboratively with specialist delivery teams to develop architectural guidance that will shape how we align people, process, and technology in the ML product space.  The Data team is a collective of specialists driven by a shared mission to help establish Xero as the most insightful and trusted small business platform. We bring together diverse skills as we work on data platforms, data modelling, application development, applied research, ethics, literacy, and strategy, to name a few.  At the heart of our mission is helping Xero and its customers get value from data responsibly, on robust data platforms, with robust methods.

What you'll do

You’ll work closely with Applied Scientists, Platform / Data / Application Engineers, Architects and others to define, refine, document and champion Xero’s architecture and long-term direction within our Data portfolio.

Working closely with Engineering, you will collaborate on designing scalable machine learning platforms that support rapid iteration and delivery of complex ML-inside products.

You'll improve the cohesion of Xero’s systems – people, technologies and processes.

Through sound architecture practises, you’ll balance long-term evolvability and scalability with current needs.

You’ll help to integrate the pieces into a beautiful whole, orchestrating our internal systems and third party software solutions to deliver great customer outcomes.

You’ll provide technical governance, ensuring teams have appropriate architectural guardrails for their work.

About you

You’re an architect with hands-on experience working with data at scale with a focus on full lifecycle machine learning (e.g. data collection, feature engineering,  model development & training, model promotion, execution & integration, monitoring & re-training)

You embrace a growth mindset, leading change and seeking new and better ways to solve problems. 

You thrive on listening to others and negotiating with diverse stakeholder groups to influence alignment and common purpose.

You enjoy bridging technical and commercial domains.

What you'll bring with you

Excellent interpersonal communication skills, you’ll be comfortable speaking with engineers, scientists, product stakeholders and business leaders.

Great written and oral communication skills. The ability to frame a discussion, tell a compelling story, and put forward clear recommendations.

The ability to identify, listen to, influence and negotiate with disparate stakeholders and the perseverance to lead them to decisions.

Visual communication skills. The ability to diagram physical and logical architectures, sequences and system interactions. 

Ability to define and measure non-functional requirements such as reliability, availability, security and performance.

Business analysis, problem-solving and critical thinking skills.

Ability to evaluate technologies and articulate trade-offs.

Practice of self-reflection and continuous learning.

本地公司

Accounting Software

1,001-5,000

Xero是一所主要研发云计算会计系统的软件公司，主要服务对象是中小型企业。Xero的总部位于新西兰惠灵顿，并在澳大利亚、英国和美国设有分公司。Xero同时在新西兰交易所和澳大利亚证券交易所上市。 Xero的产品以软件即服务为基础框架。