Senior Data Products & BI Leader — Wallet & Payments

Apple, Inc.; Cary (NC); On-site; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple in Cary, NC is seeking a Data Products & BI Lead for Wallet, Payments & Commerce. You’ll design and build analytics data products—from instrumentation to last‑mile datasets and interactive visualizations—driving privacy‑first analytics platforms that power trusted insights across the organization.

As a hands‑on senior IC, you’ll own end‑to‑end delivery, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with product, design, engineering, and business teams to define requirements and ship scalable

Qualifications

• 10+ years designing and deploying data/AI analytics products.
• 3+ years as a senior IC leading data products across multiple lines.
• Strong SQL, Python, Scala, and data pipeline tools experience.
• Experience with Generative AI/LLMs in analytics.
• Ability to influence without authority.
• Excellent executive communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Define data instrumentation specs, user journeys and data collection for robust analytics and reporting.
• Design, develop and maintain scalable analytical last-mile datasets and data products.
• Build a solid metrics layer to drive trustworthy insights and AI inferences.
• Establish data quality frameworks for accuracy across all data products.
• Develop data visualizations leveraging AI and modern tools.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, design and business to gather requirements and ensure high‑quality delivery.
• Lead discovery workshops and translate requirements into wireframes and specs.
• Mentor junior engineers and lead by influence as a senior IC.

Skills

SQL

Python

Scala

Spark

Airflow

Kafka

CI/CD

Data modeling

Executive comms

Education

BSc/MSc CS

Tools

Apache Spark

Kafka

Airflow

Job description

Apple in Cary, NC is seeking a Data Products & BI Lead for Wallet, Payments & Commerce. You’ll design and build analytics data products—from instrumentation to last‑mile datasets and interactive visualizations—driving privacy‑first analytics platforms that power trusted insights across the organization.

As a hands‑on senior IC, you’ll own end‑to‑end delivery, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with product, design, engineering, and business teams to define requirements and ship scalable