Finance Data Engineering & AI Enablement Lead

Apple, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 268,000 - 402,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Medical benefits

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Bonuses or incentive pay

Job summary

Apple, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Finance Data Engineering and AI Enablement, unlocking value from enterprise financial data.

You will bridge Finance, Data Platforms, and AI teams to ensure data is reliable, governed, and architected for advanced analytics while maintaining compliance. You will architect and scale modern financial data platforms powering reporting, analytics, and AI-driven automation, transforming financial data into a strategic asset

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.
• 10–14 years of progressive experience in data engineering or enterprise engineering.
• 6+ years of people management experience.
• Strong understanding of financial reporting and analytics use cases.
• Proven experience partnering with senior business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of scalable financial data architectures, ensuring data quality, transformation, and platform performance.
• Partner with AI teams to prepare and govern enterprise financial data for AI use cases, ensuring secure access and enabling AI-driven functions like close acceleration, anomaly detection, intelligent reconciliations, and predictive insights, while maintaining explainability and alignment with financial controls.
• Act as a key technology partner to Finance leaders by translating complex processes into scalable data solutions, aligning engineering with strategic priorities, communicating risks clearly to non-technical stakeholders, and driving measurable business outcomes from data and AI investments.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Data, Cloud, and Security teams to align architecture, ensure financial data compliance, influence Finance data strategy, and promote common data frameworks.
• Lead a high-performing team to deliver Finance initiatives predictably through strong engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and high platform availability and SLA adherence.
• Ensure financial data systems comply with internal controls, collaborate with Audit and Security, integrate governance into engineering, and balance innovation with discipline.

Skills

Data engineering

People management

Financial analytics

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent

Job description

Apple, Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Finance Data Engineering and AI Enablement, unlocking value from enterprise financial data.

You will bridge Finance, Data Platforms, and AI teams to ensure data is reliable, governed, and architected for advanced analytics while maintaining compliance. You will architect and scale modern financial data platforms powering reporting, analytics, and AI-driven automation, transforming financial data into a strategic asset