Data Engineer · Mid · Xero

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Data Engineer - Performance Insights

AU: Sydney (45 Clarence St)Mid · RemoteData Engineerposted 4 d ago

As a Data Engineer in our G&A Data & Analytics team, you will build the 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, while also helping shape the AI and agentic capabilities that give people conversational access to that data. The numbers you help produce matter well beyond the team, feeding financial performance insights, workforce repor

Skills, with evidence

  • Data modelling
    You will Go Further by looking past the obvious answer to find a simpler, more reliable way to model or validate a piece of G&A's datamust have
  • Data quality
    Validating your own outputs comes naturally to you, and you are comfortable standing behind the numbers a model producesmust have
  • SQL
    You will bring hands-on experience building SQL data models, with dbt as your tool of choice for testing, documentation and snapshottingmust have
  • dbt
    You will bring hands-on experience building SQL data models, with dbt as your tool of choice for testing, documentation and snapshottingmust have

Your plan

  1. The SQL screen: correct, then fast

    Data quality · SQL

    ≈ 1 h
  2. Data modelling: the round most people fail

    Data modelling · dbt

    ≈ 2 h
  3. ≈ 1 h
10 drills · Foundations + Intermediate≈ 4 hours

Readiness

Counted from drills you have completed anywhere on D8LooP.

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