Engineering Program Manager, Data Center Efficiency

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Description

Decommissioning Leadership

Oversees programs that enable migration from traditional bare-metal services to cloud platforms, ensuring milestones, dependencies, and resources are managed across engineering and product teams.

Ensure decommissioning activities align with internal policies, compliance requirements, and security best practices.

Drives initiatives with Data Center Engineering, Systems Engineering, Product and SRE teams to deliver automated decommissioning processes, improving operational efficiency and compliance.

Partner with engineering and product stakeholders to define roadmaps, project plans, critical paths, and delivery timelines for internally developed systems that enable LOB processes.

Infrastructure Risk Management

Identify and track assets that pose infrastructure risks (e.g., under any infrastructure risk in the data centers, aging hardware, unsupported systems, inefficient racks, maintenance needs).

Applies broad system design knowledge to translate business requirements into technical (Hardware engineering) requirements, ensuring risk mitigation strategies are feasible, scalable, and aligned with engineering constraints.

Maintain detailed documentation of risk exposures and remediation plans.

Provides program oversight grounded in a strong understanding of engineering and data center fundamentals, including power and cooling capacity, server space utilization, and electrical infrastructure, ensuring program decisions reflect both technical and operational realities.

Reporting, Insights & Executive Engagement

Build dashboards, reports, and forecasts that track decommission progress, risk remediation, and efficiency metrics.

Deliver clear, confident presentations to senior leaders that influence decisions and drive alignment (i.e broad system design knowledge to translate business requests/requirements to technical requirements) (also referred to as engineering requirements), define roadmaps and create project plans

Use milestone tracking, forecasts, and program metrics to inform engineering prioritization and drive execution decisions.

Support and partner with engineering on internal information system-specific design decisions by identifying and articulating risks and engaging critical parties where necessary

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Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with data center standards and best practices.

Experience working with asset management and decommissioning tools

Knowledge of IT sustainability and responsible recycling practices

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Project Management, or equivalent work experience

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years of project management experience, preferably in data center or infrastructure environments.

Solid understanding of server hardware lifecycle management and infrastructure operational risk.

Tried experience leading technical projects with cross-functional teams in a multifaceted, high-paced environment.

Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize

Proficiency in project tracking tools (e.g., Jira, ServiceNow, Smartsheet, Asana) and data reporting platforms (e.g., Tableau, Power BI)

Strong communication, stakeholder management, and time management skills

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Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $172,100 and $305,600, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.