Sr. Engineering Leader, Foundation Data Platform Wallet, Payments & Commerce

At Apple great ideas become extraordinary products services and customer experiences with remarkable speed. Wallet Payments and Commerce (WPC) is at the center of that work powering experiences like Apple Pay Apple Cash and Tap to Pay that are redefining how the world pays and interacts with commerce. If you are a seasoned engineering leader who thrives at the intersection of platform strategy technical depth and team building this is your opportunity to do the most impactful work of your WPC Data Foundation team builds the petabyte-scale data infrastructure that powers analytics marketing strategy product management and real-time observability across every WPC product and service. We are looking for a high-impact Senior Engineering Leader to own the technical direction integration strategy and team development of this critical foundation.

As a Senior Engineering Leader on the WPC Data Foundation team you will lead the team responsible for extending Apples enterprise data platform to meet the domain-specific needs of commerce partner and channel data. This is a role defined by extension and integration not by building from scratch. Your mandate is to close the gap between what Apples central platform provides and what WPC requires with precision and rigor ensuring that everything warranting a shared solution flows through Apples platform as role demands both technical depth and strategic judgment. You will lead the team that draws the line: what to consume as-is what to extend what belongs in WPCs layer and what to push upstream for the benefit of the broader organization. You will partner with your engineers and cross-functional platform teams on technical direction architecture and roadmap decisions ensuring the foundation meets the high bar for scale reliability and governance expected of Apples financial and commerce systems. Success in this role is measured in part by how little WPC-specific infrastructure your team needs to create. Parts of your roadmap will be shaped by platform teams outside your organization and navigating that effectively is central to how this role creates is a rare opportunity to build the data foundation that an entire world-class commerce platform depends on within one of the most sophisticated engineering ecosystems in the world.

Platform Strategy and Build Judgment: Define what to build what to extend and what to consume from Apples platform and shape central platform roadmaps through well-formed requirements and trusted Leadership and Integration: Maintain credible technical depth across design reviews and hold the seams between platforms such as identity lineage schema contracts and observability to a high Building and Talent Development: Build teams with complementary strengths grow engineers and leaders from within and measure team health by where people go and Internal Customer Experience: Own end-to-end delivery of multi-quarter programs and measure success by adoption onboarding time data freshness and cost; not just Excellence and Governance: Build and sustain the on-call SLO and incident practices required for systems where data quality is a business event and uphold Apples privacy and security posture throughout.

Seasoned leader in software and platform engineering with solid experience leading engineering teams that include engineering managers senior and staff-level ownership of data systems at petabyte scale in production including actual volumes ingest rates and consumer counts you were accountable experience building on top of a shared or central platform you did not own extending it integrating with it and influencing its least one clear example of securing a capability from another teams roadmap rather than building around -on background in distributed processing streaming and large-scale storage sufficient to lead technical direction record of hiring and growing engineering talent and building durable team delivery of multi-quarter programs with significant cross-organizational written communication; drives alignment through structured documents not only through degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related field.

Experience leading teams serving both real-time and batch consumers on a unified data in commerce partner payments or supply chain data with federated data ownership and data mesh models with a clear-eyed view of where they add cost efficiency at scale without regressing reliability or developer experience.