Engineering Program Manager, Dublin
Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple experience we deliver is the result of us making each other’s ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better. It’s the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you’ll do more than join something — you’ll add something.
We’re looking for a strong Engineering Program Manager with a solid track record of building and driving sophisticated software strategies, tools and processes that deliver new end-to-end experiences that delight customers.
Apple Services Engineering is an exciting environment and a dynamic development organization. With customers around the world, we are a fast-growing marketplace for music, movies, TV shows, books, podcasts, and, of course, apps. Successful Program Managers are responsible for shipping platforms & features.
We're looking for people with the ability to ship software & platforms for complex, customer-facing and internal analytics products under demanding timelines. This is a hands-on position where the Program Manager will be involved in requirements analysis, functional and technical design discussions, testing, proofs-of-concept, and more.
This is not a task-based job; you will be responsible for successful outcomes and delivery. Strong fundamentals are a requirement but you have more. You take responsibility; you feel a personal stake in the deliverables you ship; you communicate responsibilities and scope clearly; you value integrity; you thrive in conflict; you work for the success of the programs and advocate for what’s right for Apple; you thrive in ambiguity and strive to bring direction & order to it; you use your deep wisdom and judgment; you keep your eye on the ball; you build strong relationships; you are aware of politics but do not get mired in them; you are constantly learning to improve yourself and your team; and you ship analytics platforms for features which millions of customers will use.
Provide Agile program management for internal services and platforms supporting data engineering pipelines managing high-volume data for App Store, Apple Arcade, Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Podcasts, Apple Books, and other internal teams
Support agile development of strategic new platforms, connecting functions from data ingestion through to data querying & visualization in applications or reports, while also managing customer and engineering transition from legacy systems and tooling
Lead all aspects of multiple concurrent projects including scope, requirements, timelines, resource allocation, stakeholder management, communications, and risk assessments, both within the team and with multiple different project partners
Collaborate and coordinate across Engineering, Analytics, Quality Assurance, Infrastructure, Service Reliability Engineering, Legal, Compliance, Privacy, and other organizations to run services and platforms supporting internal and external customers and application use cases for analytics data
- Expertise in the software development lifecycle and Agile program management in complex environments
- Familiarity with data engineering (from ingestion to aggregation) and associated infrastructure (e.g. data storage, query services, data access patterns)
- Experience running distributed services in virtualized environments (e.g. Kubernetes) and building platforms that consist of service APIs used by multiple partners
- Confident understanding of SQL is a plus and passionate about the role of scalability, efficiency, quality, and data governance in analytics
- High emotional intelligence and strong facilitation skills to successfully lead conversations with analytics stakeholders, engineering management, enterprise technology partners, and other teams, in order to drive a complex, cross-functional, and comprehensive project plan
- Exceptional verbal and written communication, including presentation skills to all levels of an organization
- Aptitude and willingness to learn, and proactive attitude and energy
- High degree of autonomy and self-motivation, while also able to remain connected with colleagues across a distributed team