Apple

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

Apple • $160K — $200K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience leading engineering teams with a focus on data systems and platforms.
  • Proven track record managing petabyte-scale data in production environments.
  • Experience integrating and extending shared platforms to meet specific needs.
  • Ability to navigate and influence cross-team roadmaps for capability acquisition.
  • Hands-on experience with distributed processing and large-scale storage systems.
  • Strong talent acquisition and team development skills.
  • Proficiency in managing large-scale, multi-quarter projects with cross-organizational dependencies.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical direction and integration strategy for the WPC Data Foundation team.
  • Ensure that Apple's enterprise platform effectively meets WPC's commerce and partner data needs.
  • Maintain high standards for scalability, reliability, and governance in data management.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional platform teams on architecture and roadmap decisions.
  • Minimize the creation of WPC-specific infrastructure by leveraging existing capabilities.
  • Drive alignment and communication through structured documentation.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape the data infrastructure of a world-class commerce platform.
  • Work within one of the most sophisticated engineering ecosystems globally.
  • Engagement with cutting-edge data technology at petabyte scale.
  • Rare chance to influence the broader organizational data strategy.
  • Collaboration with talented engineering teams across multiple disciplines.
Full Job Description
The 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.

Description

As a Senior Engineering Leader on the WPC Data Foundation team, you will lead the team responsible for extending Apple's 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 Apple's central platform provides and what WPC requires, with precision and rigor, ensuring that everything warranting a shared solution flows through Apple's platform as intended.

This 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 WPC's 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 Apple's 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 impact.

This 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.

Minimum Qualifications

Seasoned leader in software and platform engineering, with solid experience leading engineering teams that include engineering managers, senior and staff-level ICs.

Demonstrated ownership of data systems at petabyte scale in production, including actual volumes, ingest rates, and consumer counts you were accountable for.

Proven experience building on top of a shared or central platform you did not own, extending it, integrating with it, and influencing its roadmap.

At least one clear example of securing a capability from another team's roadmap rather than building around them.

Hands-on background in distributed processing, streaming, and large-scale storage, sufficient to lead technical direction credibly.

Track record of hiring and growing engineering talent and building durable team structure.

Demonstrated delivery of multi-quarter programs with significant cross-organizational dependencies.

Excellent written communication; drives alignment through structured documents, not only through meetings.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience leading teams serving both real-time and batch consumers on a unified data foundation.

Background in commerce, partner, payments, or supply chain data domains.

Familiarity with federated data ownership and data mesh models, with a clear-eyed view of where they add value.

Demonstrated cost efficiency at scale without regressing reliability or developer experience.

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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