Principal Data Architect and Manager - Service Special Projects
Core
Design and operate a petabyte-scale, real-time data backbone powering intelligent search and on-device experiences across Apple platforms.
Role type
Principal Data Architect and Manager (hybrid IC/People Lead)
Builds
Multi-layered lakehouse, streaming ETL/ELT pipelines, entity resolution systems, and knowledge graphs
Domain
Consumer technology, Data Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Petabyte-scale data architecture, Cloud object storage (S3), Apache Kafka, Stream processing (Spark/Flink), Entity resolution, Knowledge graphs, Multimodal data pipelines, LLM inference integration, Vector search, Data governance, SLA definition, Team leadership
Preferred skills
Graph databases, LLM deployment (ONNX/TensorRT), GPU optimization, Infrastructure as Code, Data privacy regulations
