Engineering Project Manager, Cloud Technologies - Military Veterans

at Apple

Cupertino, California

Summary

Posted: Jan 25, 2021
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number:200209948
This position can be located in Santa Clara Valley (CA) or Austin (TX) Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. We are establishing a centralized team to enable public cloud access, build out cloud core platform services, deploy cloud managed services for app teams and app team adoption. You will partner with developers, platform and site reliability engineers and app teams to understand their challenges, work through their issues and track activities under various cloud initiatives. The ideal candidate is someone with a proven project management track record, sound technical knowledge and skills in delivering complex cloud programs and managing projects under timelines. We need someone to take charge and become responsible to resolve outcomes and feel a personal stake in paving the way for the teams you engage. You will need to communicate responsibilities and scope clearly, value integrity and always maintain an open mind. You handle conflict, protect people’s time and have a curious mind to know how things work.

Key Qualifications

Key Qualifications
  • At least 5 years of technical project management in a software development and cloud deployment environment
  • Previous technical and project management experience working on large scale and complex programs
  • Successful track record managing projects from feature definition to project deployment through the development lifecycle
  • Exposure to setting up and handling agile project management
  • Manage and prioritize project roadmaps using OKR methodology
  • Good proficiency in software development and deployment
  • Solid technical proficiency: cloud architecture, development and deployment, databases, build & release systems, and bonus points for past development experience.
  • Experience in process engineering to improve existing processes with a metrics driven approach
  • Naturally accountable and responsible: Self-starter, self-motivated, disciplined, and self-sufficient
  • Good at prioritization and applying sound, data-based judgement to weigh trade- offs
  • Strong sense of ownership, customer service and integrity
  • A creative problem solver with excellent social and diplomacy skills
  • Experience automating tasks using existing tools and scripting
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, written and verbal, to all levels of an organization
  • Pro-active in approach, focus on innovation and ability to learn new technologies

Description

Description
You will create program roadmaps for cloud products and platforms. You will establish and document the scope of the project including the schedule. You should have an informed perspective on what should be included / excluded as a partner with the various engineering teams, while keeping an eye on all associated threads from compliance to security and finance. This includes known risks, dependencies, milestones, etc. and make adjustments as needed. You will handle communication to stakeholders, the teams, and cross-functional partners. Schedule, publish agendas, run, and summarize decisions / action items for meetings where EPM involvement is needed. Remain curious to understand and be able to represent the overall system design independently. You will manage the teams backlog, prioritize work to meet the project expectations and offer data and planning expertise for working through prioritization challenges. You will run meetings as needed to understand all issues and ensure any changes to the service are lined up for deployment. Collaborate with various organizations across Apple.

Education & Experience

Education & Experience
BA/BS in Computer Science or related field with 5+ years or equivalent experience. Project Management and Cloud certification are a plus

Additional Requirements

Additional Requirements

Cupertino, California

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Apple

We’re a diverse collective of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, as well as with services, including Apple TV, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. And the same innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.

Every new product we invent, service we create, or store we open is the result of people working together to make each other’s ideas stronger. That happens here because every one of us strives toward a common goal — creating the best customer experiences. So bring your passion, courage, and original thinking and get ready to share it. This is where your work can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own.

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