Sr Engineering Project Manager, Ai & Data Platforms

Apple - Austin, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Austin, TX

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences. The Global Business Intelligence (GBI) organization is at the forefront of this innovation, managing Apple's enterprise data warehouse that encompasses petabytes of data. The GBI team is dedicated to providing data analytics, machine learning, and data science solutions to various Apple business groups, leveraging a diverse technology stack that includes Snowflake, HANA, and SingleStore, among others. This role is centered around driving project management for significant business initiatives, requiring a proactive and collaborative approach to lead multidisciplinary teams in a fast-paced environment. As an Engineering Program Manager (EPM), you will be responsible for overseeing the software development life cycle (SDLC) efforts, which includes defining, scheduling, prioritizing, tracking, measuring, and communicating project statuses. You will facilitate requirements brainstorming and design review sessions with both internal and external partners, ensuring that functionalities and features are well understood and implemented. Identifying and mitigating risks, removing roadblocks, and facilitating communication between teams are critical aspects of this role. Additionally, you will assist in maintaining the project roadmap, overseeing resource capacity and funding at the portfolio level, and rolling out project frameworks and governance. Your ability to lead and develop new processes will be highly valued, as Apple continuously seeks to innovate and improve its operations.

Responsibilities

• Drive project management for large, cross-functional business initiatives.
• Lead all aspects of the software development life cycle (SDLC) efforts.
• Define, schedule, prioritize, track, measure, and communicate project status.
• Facilitate requirements brainstorming and design review sessions with partners.
• Identify and mitigate risks, remove roadblocks, and facilitate communication between teams.
• Assist in maintaining the project roadmap and overseeing resource capacity and funding.
• Roll out project frameworks and governance.

Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on engineering project management experience in Business Intelligence/Data Engineering/Analytics areas.
• Experience in various project methodologies and processes, including Waterfall, Change Management, and Agile/Scrum.
• Proven track record managing large and complex cross-functional programs.
• Self-motivated, collaborative, curious, and proactive with demonstrated critical thinking capability.
• Good listening/comprehension, verbal and written communication skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail and organization.
• Demonstrate resilience and adaptability in ambiguous situations.
• Working knowledge of SAP and data warehouse, and/or experience with large scale system migration projects.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience preferred.