Data Products & Metrics Foundation Lead - Wallet, Payments & Commerce

Architect the future of data consumption across Apple's Wallet, Payments & Commerce by shaping metrics foundation, headless BI, and AI-driven insights strategy. Serves as a solution architect, driving alignment, standards, and long-term architecture for how data is modeled, accessed, and consumed. \\n\\nApple 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 store 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.

Our culture is about getting things done iteratively and rapidly, with open feedback and debate along the way; we believe analytics is a team sport, but we strive for independent decision-making and taking smart risks. Our team collaborates deeply with partners across product, design, engineering and business teams: our mission is to drive innovation by providing the business and data scientist partners best in class systems and tools to make decisions that improve the customer experience. This will include leveraging large and complex data sources, helping derive actionable insights, delivering dynamic and intuitive decision tools, and bringing our data to life via interactive self serve decision tooling with an eye to meet high standards of trust, accuracy, legal and privacy compliance.\n\nThe ideal candidate is a self-motivated team player, skilled in a broad set of data product tools and techniques with a strong sense of Apple design philosophy. The candidate will have the ability to adapt and learn quickly, provide results with limited direction, and choose the best possible path forward at all times.\n\nThis is a rare opportunity to define the analytics foundation for one of Apple's most strategically important business areas - Wallet, Payments & Commerce. You won't be maintaining the status quo; you'll be building the future - from metrics architecture to AI-driven decision intelligence - at a scale and quality standard that only Apple demands

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent experience\n10+ years of experience in designing, developing and deploying next-gen Analytical Data Products.\n3+ years in a lead, architect, or senior IC role in Metrics foundation and BI solution design\nStrong understanding of data warehousing, data modeling (dimensional/star schemas), and metric standardization. \nExperience implementing or working with headless BI / semantic layer tools\nDemonstrated ability to influence without authority across engineering and business teams\nExcellent Executive communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences

Familiarity with payments, commerce, or fintech data - transaction metrics, funnel analytics, financial KPIs\nFamiliarity with AI-driven analytics / conversational BI\nKnowledge of data governance, data cataloging, and metadata management\nStrong SQL skills, with exposure to Python and large-scale data processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark)\nExperience working closely with data engineering and platform teams to align on data models, and infrastructure/platform requirements\nExperience navigating complex organization dynamics and driving cross-functional initiatives to completion in a fast-paced environment\nProven record in leading junior engineers to build metrics or BI foundation