Engineering Project Manager - Software Developer Productivity
Job Description
Summary
Engineering Project Managers (EPMs) are one of the secrets to Apple’s success in delivering impactful customer experiences across its vast ecosystem. We bridge organizational boundaries and drive cross-functional collaboration, enabling teams to surpass what they might achieve on their own and expanding the possibilities of what we can build as a company.
The Tools & Frameworks team aims to deliver the next generation of products, services, and tools that will empower developers inside and outside Apple to be at their most creative and efficient. We are looking for an experienced, energetic, motivated individual with great technical curiosity and genuine passion for delivering complex, cross-functional projects in a fast-paced environment.
In this capacity, you will collaborate closely with software engineering leaders focused on developer productivity to enable strategic alignment on goals, priorities, and execution across multiple teams. At the same time, you will drive large cross-functional projects spanning these teams. You will be responsible for project planning, tracking, execution, and reporting, while also overseeing service qualification, deployment, and operations. You will proactively identify, prioritize, and drive resolution of program issues by presenting new feature initiatives, top issues, risks, and critical achievements to executive leadership.
The ideal candidate must have excellent communication and organization skills, a thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle, and solid experience running a cloud service end to end. Nimble planning for large-scale projects is key, along with the ability to think on your feet to tackle issues all while being the central point of contact between teams. Familiarity with components of computer architecture and operating systems as well as build engineering and CICD is a plus.
The Tools & Frameworks team aims to deliver the next generation of products, services, and tools that will empower developers inside and outside Apple to be at their most creative and efficient. We are looking for an experienced, energetic, motivated individual with great technical curiosity and genuine passion for delivering complex, cross-functional projects in a fast-paced environment.
In this capacity, you will collaborate closely with software engineering leaders focused on developer productivity to enable strategic alignment on goals, priorities, and execution across multiple teams. At the same time, you will drive large cross-functional projects spanning these teams. You will be responsible for project planning, tracking, execution, and reporting, while also overseeing service qualification, deployment, and operations. You will proactively identify, prioritize, and drive resolution of program issues by presenting new feature initiatives, top issues, risks, and critical achievements to executive leadership.
The ideal candidate must have excellent communication and organization skills, a thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle, and solid experience running a cloud service end to end. Nimble planning for large-scale projects is key, along with the ability to think on your feet to tackle issues all while being the central point of contact between teams. Familiarity with components of computer architecture and operating systems as well as build engineering and CICD is a plus.
Description
In this role you will be the central hub bringing together different teams from within Apple. Responsibilities include:
Creating and maintaining detailed project plans, schedule, and status documentation for our initiatives.
Bringing together and collaborating with large cross-functional stakeholder groups.
Serving as a liaison to communicate information regarding requirements, changes, milestones reached, and other pertinent information.
Present and communicate new feature initiatives, top issues, risks, and critical achievements to executive leadership.
Driving focus to critical path deliverables and track execution of dependencies.
Coordinating complex and highly dependent groups of changes through our build and integration systems.
Proactively identifying risks to software delivery, developing mitigation strategies, and facilitating resolutions.
Minimum Qualifications
- At least 5 years of experience in program or project management in software development
- Knowledge of software engineering standard methodologies and related dependencies
- Strong leadership skills including ability to build trusting relationships and influence others
- Excellent spoken and written communication with the ability to tailor communication style to multiple audiences
- Organization and multi-tasking skills with attention to detail
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in software development management, software engineering, computer science, or a related field.
- Build and Release Engineering / Release Management
- Project Management experience in software development life cycle Understanding of software build pipelines, merging, test systems and methods, and the delivery of codeContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery Analytics (splunk/Tableau preferred)
- Knowledge of operating system internals architecture skills and experience
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