Data Engineering Manager, Apple

$175.7-292.7k

+ RSUs

SQL
AWS
Python
Airflow
Azure
Redshift
Spark
Snowflake
BigQuery
Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Cupertino, CA

Apple

Personal technology company

Be an early applicant

Apple

Personal technology company

1001+ employees

B2CB2BHardwareSaaSTelecommunicationseCommerce

Be an early applicant

$175.7-292.7k

+ RSUs

SQL
AWS
Python
Airflow
Azure
Redshift
Spark
Snowflake
BigQuery
Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Cupertino, CA

1001+ employees

B2CB2BHardwareSaaSTelecommunicationseCommerce

Company mission

Apple's mission is to bring the best user experience to its customers through its innovative hardware, software, and services.

Role

Who you are

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 10+ years of experience in data engineering, with a focus on building and maintaining scalable data pipelines
  • 4+ years of experience directly managing data engineering teams
  • Proficiency in SQL and Python
  • Experience with ETL tools and frameworks such as Apache Spark, Airflow, or similar
  • Strong understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and data warehousing solutions (e.g., Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery)
  • Proven experience with databases (both relational and NoSQL) and data modeling
  • Experience solving large-scale data-related issues, implementing new governance processes, managing data integration / ETL challenges
  • Experience in managing projects related to data governance or operations, including planning, execution, and monitoring
  • Understanding of data security and privacy best practices
  • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills

Desirable

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  • Familiarity with modern data architectures such as Data Lakes and Data Mesh
  • Experience with machine learning platforms and data science workflows
  • Proficiency in DevOps tools (e.g., Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes) for automating infrastructure as code
  • Experience working with hardware sales companies or consumer goods industry
  • Excellent communication and storytelling skills, able to inspire non-technical colleagues on value proposition and impact of data governance
  • Experience leveraging AIML and automation solutions to reduce data-related errors and drive scale

What the job involves

  • In this role, you’ll be a key leader in the design, development, and implementation of data engineering solutions within the Apple Channel Sales team
  • You’ll oversee a team responsible for building and optimizing scalable data pipelines that support critical decision-making, sales performance, and business planning for the U.S. Channel Sales team
  • As the Data Engineering Manager, you will work hands-on to architect and maintain robust data infrastructure, ensuring that data is easily accessible, reliable, and actionable
  • You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, analysts, and product managers, to ensure that data solutions align with business needs and drive operational efficiency
  • Additionally, you’ll lead efforts to enhance data quality, governance, and security, while continuously driving innovation in data processing and automation
  • Your leadership will be essential in guiding the team towards creating scalable data solutions that support the organization’s growth and improve overall data capabilities
  • Weekly Hours: 40
  • Lead and manage a team of data engineers to design, build, and maintain data pipelines, ensuring data is available and accessible to all stakeholders
  • Collaborate with Sales, data science, analytics, and product teams to understand data requirements and deliver on projects in a timely manner
  • Architect scalable and efficient data solutions using modern technologies and best practices
  • Drive innovation and automation in data processes to optimize data flow, reduce latency, and improve data quality
  • Establish and maintain data infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency
  • Develop and enforce data governance policies, ensuring data integrity, security, and compliance with industry standards
  • Mentor and grow the team, fostering a culture of learning, continuous improvement, and collaboration
  • Stay current with emerging technologies and trends in data engineering, providing recommendations for adopting new tools and practices where relevant
  • Ensure high availability of data systems through monitoring, alerting, and on-call rotations as necessary
  • Keep up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies to ensure work remains cutting-edge

Our take

With a market capitalisation that reached $3 trillion in 2022, Apple is the world's most valuable company. A vertically integrated approach and obsessive focus on the user experience have helped to make Apple one of the most successful companies in the world.

Since taking over at Apple, Tim Cook has been carefully curating the company's reputation as a champion of consumer privacy, trying to set the company apart from others that monetise their users' data.

The company even went as far as to introduce sweeping privacy changes which made it difficult to tailor ads to Apple’s 1bn+ iPhone users. This rocked the $400bn digital ads market, seriously harming the revenue of its bigger rivals in the lucrative industry and forcing them to rebuild their ad infrastructure.

Despite this, the company has been shaken by supply chain issues and moved a considerable amount of its manufacturing from China to India, and increased its Vietnam presence. This is because of multi-pronged production disruption in China, the second largest customer market for Apple, and triggered an estimated 10% revenue drop in the first quarter of 2023.

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Company benefits

  • Everyone has different needs and schedules, and that’s why we offer medical plans that cover both physical and mental healthcare
  • In addition, employees have the option to access medical professionals from almost anywhere and get free confidential counselling — virtual or in person
  • You could also be eligible for help with fitness-related expenses
  • Our medical coverage plans include family-friendly features such as fertility treatments
  • Because we know there’s more than one way to bring a new child into your family, we support all kinds of new parents with paid leave and our gradual return-to-work programme
  • You also get paid time away if you need to care for an ill family member and free guidance to help you find support for childcare, elderly care, legal referrals and more
  • At Apple, we make sure women earn the same as men performing similar work. As part of that effort, your salary history is history — we won’t ask
  • Every employee here also has the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder, because all are eligible for stock grants and also a discount when purchasing Apple stock
  • To help you prepare for retirement, our pension can help you meet your savings goals. And to help you prepare for the unexpected, you’ll have the security of multiple forms of income protection
  • Plan on developing both professionally and personally. Apple University creates classes, seminars and beyond-the-classroom tools that help employees understand Apple’s culture, organisation, values, and role in the world. You can sharpen general business and software skills through online classes
  • For more formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, we’ll reimburse you for certain educational expenses, including tuition
  • Whether you’re exploring personal pursuits, welcoming a new child or caring for a family member, rest assured that you’ll have paid time away when you need it most
  • When you give money to an eligible organisation, we’ll match your donations one-for-one, so your contribution is doubled. And if you choose to donate your time, we’ll contribute US$25 for every hour you volunteer. Whether you donate time or money, Apple will match your contributions up to US$10,000 a year
  • Get the world’s best prices on the world’s best products — Apple products. You’ll also get deals on great third-party accessories
  • And there are services to help you manage life’s day-to-day tasks: dinner reservations, pet-sitters, shopping, personal travel, financial guidance and more

Company values

  • We believe that we’re on the face of the Earth to make great products
  • We believe in the simple, not the complex
  • We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make
  • We participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution
  • We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us
  • We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot
  • We don’t settle for anything less than excellence in every group in the company, and we have the self-honesty to admit when we’re wrong and the courage to change

Company HQ

Cupertino, CA

Leadership

Tim Cook

(CEO, not founder)

Joined Apple in 1998 and held various senior roles before being promoted to CEO in 2011. Previously Spent 12 years with IBM, most recently as director of North American Fulfilment, where he led manufacturing and distribution functions for IBM’s Personal Computer Company in North and Latin America

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