Retail Engineering Project Manager

APPLE SOUTH ASIA PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global technology firm in Singapore is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager for its Retail platform. You will lead complex software engineering programs and guide project teams while managing critical relationships to ensure successful delivery. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in eCommerce or retail and strong skills in budget and resource management. The role offers a chance to work with innovative technology and significant projects in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Several years of technical project management experience in eCommerce or Retail.
• Strong experience with managing complex budgets.
• Proven ability to partner across functions to execute strategic plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead project teams and interface between engineers and product owners.
• Handle senior partner relationships for successful program delivery.
• Act as single point of contact for projects to business and support teams.

Skills

Technical project management

Resource management

Budget management

Communication skills

E-commerce expertise

Tools

SQL databases

No-SQL DB like Cassandra

Spring framework

React applications

Job description

Summary

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, extraordinary ideas have a way of becoming industry leading products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. You will work with significant and dynamic projects in support of Apple's Retail business and will deliver innovative solutions and software. The worldwide Retail & Online Stores team is responsible for delivering the electronic commerce (eCommerce) systems and solutions that enable and support the best in class customer experience for Apple Online Store (AOS) and Apple Retail Stores- one of world’s largest retail businesses, serving millions of customers around the globe. The team is part of Apple’s Information & Systems (IS&T) division, and is based primarily in Sunnyvale, California with teams in Austin, TX, London, Singapore and Hyderabad India - working as a single global team.

Description

This role is for an ambitious senior project management professional who has several years experience of working in a dynamic retail business environment. The primary responsibility will be for the delivery of complex multi-functional software engineering programs and products for Apple Retail platform, technologies and potentially leading a team of project managers, technical analysts, resources, budgets and the related reporting for program.

• You will provide leadership for project teams by acting as a domain lead for retail business and combining strong business insight with strong communication and technical skills
• You will operate as an effective interface between engineers and product owners, bringing prospective and understanding of retail principles to help development time and improve their effectiveness in serving Apple's customers
• You will understand and articulate the business and technical implications of decisions that are being made by their project teams, whilst handling senior partner relationships to ensure successful program delivery
• A combination of gravitas and flexibility will be required to ensure that they can be effective and you have extensive experience working on consumer product launches, product merchandising in an electronic commerce environment
• You will act as the SPOC for the project to both Biz and SSGs, support gate processes and provide PLOEs and DLOEs

Minimum Qualifications

• Years of technical project management experience (including but not limiting payment partner integrations, geo expansions and etc.) in eCommerce or Retail Industries
• Strong experience with resource management in complex environments for budgets in the millions of dollars
• Strong understanding of controlling and running budgets, resource management and forecasting
• Project and program management experience in a software development environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Specific deep experience and functional expertise in electronic commerce for consumer products
• Experience leading multiple high priority projects at a time and driving them forward with a sense of urgency
• A phenomenal teammate with a positive attitude who builds relationships quickly
• Proven ability to partner and influence multi-functionally to identify, evaluate and execute strategic plans
• Experience in building scalable and highly performant consumer facing web-based React applications
• Experience in Spring or other DI frameworks is a plus
• Experience in SQL databases QL , No-SQL DB like Cassandra, DynamoDB, Couchbase etc is desirable
• Experience scaling distributed systems to handle millions of concurrent requests is desirable
• Experience integrating with Content Management Systems is a plus

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity, and thus we treat all applicants fairly and equally. Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.