Engineering Program Manager, Foundation Modeling Data

As a member of the Foundation Modeling Data EPM group you will be responsible for Apples ability to use data to power its products for hundreds of millions of users around the world. You will work with the Foundation Modeling Data organization to deliver on our vision to make data the voice of our customers and to inform product and machine learning development. Were looking for an experienced hands-on program manager to partner with data engineering data science product and client engineering you have a track record of successful program management across complex initiatives Have you worked on highly leveraged data-schema processes data efficiency initiatives or data pipelines Are you excited about driving the technical projects vital to efficiently scale our understanding of our products in privacy compliant ways Do you thrive working with teams to focus on what matters We would like to talk to you.

In this role you will be responsible for creating and managing project schedules with clear dependencies a defined critical path and a systematic methodology to communicate status. You will proactively drive alignment across the organization and between teams managing risks and mitigations while remaining agile enough to re-plan as events warrant. As a primary problem solver you will identify issues and solutions early marshaling the resources necessary to resolve them while coordinating with cross-functional teams to prioritize tasks and track risks to both schedule and product impact will be felt through clear timely and objective communication including regular program status updates and the escalation of critical issues to the executive team. By breaking down complex issues into manageable discussion topics you will drive engineering and design alignment maintaining a steadfast orientation toward teamwork and collaboration. Ultimately you will drive on-time delivery and deployment by identifying development needs and establishing key achievements for checkpoints. Beyond daily execution you will continuously reflect on how the team operates proposing and implementing new ways to work to improve the rate at which we deliver value to our customers.

Manage data collection and streamlining processes creating frameworks that scale across different teams and supporting and maintaining the operations of those program and project planning for partner Data Engineering team including gathering requirements scoping effort prioritization and resource allocation blocking and tackling and schedule of to product definition with partner Data Engineering team identifying and understanding customer needs and priorities and developing communication cross-functionally with other teams ensuring that requirements are well understood and that priorities and delivery schedules expectations are and run processes that allow for the maximum agility and adaptation across data engineering teams to collect data and understand our relationships across the Foundation Modeling organization and across Apple aiding teams in working with data engineering; facilitate communication between cross-divisional groups around Apple.

4 years project management engineering management and/or QA/QC engineering experience for software development quality in a fast paced incredibly sophisticated program management or engineering ownership of data collection pipelines or tools used by internal engineering teams; experience driving on roadmaps/long-term strategy of internal tools u0026 gathering analyzing and presenting data and metrics to back up assumptions make recommendations and drive examples of hands-on involvement of delivering instrumentation data platforms data tools or data processes that improved the customer communication and presentation skills written and verbal to all levels of an in EE/CS/CE or equivalent

Self-motivated independent and proactive; demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities; can quickly triage prioritize and lead under analytical thinking analysis and problem-solving skillsnProficiency in Agile SDLC development processesnStrong leadership skills including coaching team-building conflict resolution and managementnSuperior group facilitation interviewing and influence skillsnAbility to communicate abstract ideas clearly and independently manage complex project objectivesnBonus if you have prior data analysis experience (SQL Python/Jupyter Notebooks Tableau Superset)nBonus if you have prior experience exploring data formats and tools for big data systems (e.g. Parquet Avro Protobuf).nBonus if you have prior experience working with data engineers (e.g. engineers who use tools such as Airflow Luigi Jenkins MapReduce Pig Spark Hadoop Hive HBase Greenplum Vertica etc.)