Job description
We're building the large-scale data foundation that powers private, personalized experiences across Apple platforms. Our team designs and operates the systems that ingest, unify, and understand information at massive scale — turning petabytes of data from many sources into a single, high-quality, richly structured representation. This foundation is what intelligent search and on-device experiences rely on, and we build it with an uncompromising bar for data quality, freshness, and privacy.
We are looking for a Principal Data Architect and Manager to serve as both the senior technical authority and the people leader for our data platform. As the Principal Data Architect and Manager on our team, you will serve as both the senior technical authority and the people leader for our data platform. You'll define and own the end-to-end architecture of a real-time, petabyte-scale data backbone: from ingestion through a multi-layered lakehouse to normalized serving layers that power downstream search, ranking, and on-device experiences. You'll also build, grow, and lead the team of data engineers who bring that architecture to life.
This is a hands-on principal role with multiple facets: you set the technical vision, personally shape the hardest architectural decisions, drive the roadmap through to production, and manage, mentor, and grow the engineers executing against it. Your leverage comes equally from what you design and from the team you build.
We are looking for a Principal Data Architect and Manager to serve as both the senior technical authority and the people leader for our data platform. As the Principal Data Architect and Manager on our team, you will serve as both the senior technical authority and the people leader for our data platform. You'll define and own the end-to-end architecture of a real-time, petabyte-scale data backbone: from ingestion through a multi-layered lakehouse to normalized serving layers that power downstream search, ranking, and on-device experiences. You'll also build, grow, and lead the team of data engineers who bring that architecture to life.
This is a hands-on principal role with multiple facets: you set the technical vision, personally shape the hardest architectural decisions, drive the roadmap through to production, and manage, mentor, and grow the engineers executing against it. Your leverage comes equally from what you design and from the team you build.