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Senior Data Engineer, Retail Business Intelligence

Apple· Corporate Functions
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Full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Data Engineer leading data engineering for Retail Business Intelligence, responsible for building data pipelines, certified data assets, and analytics tooling to support end-to-end analyses and reporting for Apple’s Retail initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end data engineering lifecycle for analytics in retail initiatives - from requirements gathering and data modeling through pipeline development, UAT, and production deployment - ensuring on-time, high-quality delivery across global cross-functional teams
  • Design and maintain scalable, certified data assets across relational and data lake environments, establishing the semantic layer standards that power consistent reporting and decision-making across the organization
  • Serve as a technical subject matter expert on multi-functional projects, partnering with IT, finance, operations, and retail stakeholders to translate complex business questions into rigorous, well-documented data solutions
  • Lead design and code reviews, define engineering best practices, and provide mentorship and technical guidance to ensure team-wide consistency, performance, and maintainability of data pipelines and analytical tools
  • Drive data quality and integrity by developing and enforcing validation frameworks against complex, disparate source systems, proactively identifying and resolving data issues before they surface in business-facing reporting
  • Champion data literacy across the organization by delivering consultation, training, and documentation that enable business partners to independently leverage analytical tools and certified datasets with confidence
  • Engage as a SME in global cross functional projects to ensure the planned impact will be measurable and quantifiable
  • Define how data is structured, organized and interpreted by building certified datasets for consistent analytics and reporting
  • Work closely with project managers, stakeholders and IT to deliver data requirements by leading the reporting track from requirements gathering through to successful UAT
  • Develop web reports and analytical tools
  • Define, build and deploy relevant metrics and perform ad hoc analyses
  • Provide consultation and training to users of analytical tools and data sets
  • Lead regular design and code reviews and perform debugging and coding to resolve issues
  • The ideal candidate has a real passion for quality and an ability to understand complex systems

Qualifications

  • Expert SQL skills with 7+ years ETL and query optimization experience
  • Extensive Semantic layer (ESL) development experience in relational database and data lake environments
  • Extensive experience performing data validation against complex, disparate systems
  • Proficiency in PHP and/or Python for scripting or data manipulation, with experience creating or modifying HTML/CSS/JS-based applications, or front-end tools
  • Professional proficiency in both Mandarin and English, written and verbal
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Mathematics, Computer Science, or equivalent
  • Masters degree with 7+ years of experience directly related to role requirements
  • Strong business mindset with the ability to translate business needs into technical requirements, product IT-friendly business requirements documentation, and communicate complex concepts clearly to senior leaders
  • Structured problem solver who can break down ambiguous challenges, lead decisively under uncertainty, and provide goal-oriented direction across projects, programs, and processes
  • Proactive technologist who independently picks up new skills and drives innovation — including familiarity with modern AI practices such as embedding vectors, knowledge graphs, and agentic workflows integrated into data-driven pipelines
  • Experience deploying applications and scripts into cloud environments (Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, AWS or equivalent)

Skills

Required:SQLSemantic Layer (ESL) developmentData ValidationPHP/Python scriptingMandarin & English proficiencyCloud deployment
Nice to have:HTML/CSS/JS

Benefits

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Last updated Aug 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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