Engineering Manager - Digital Asset Management

Role overview

Engineering Manager - Digital Asset Management at Apple

We are seeking a hands-on manager with end-to-end experience building and managing distributed applications at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers — hire top talent and provide ongoing coaching to help them do their best work.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and drive adoption of engineering best practices, secure coding standards, and Agile/continuous delivery methodologies.

Required qualifications

• Minimum qualification: 8+ years of experience including at least 2 years of management experience leading engineers 5+ years of demonstrable experience building and maintaining large scale, distributed systems Demonstrable experience with Java 8, Spring, Spring Boot, Micro-service architecture and NoSQL DBs

Preferred qualifications and skills

• Prior experience with Digital Asset Management platforms is highly preferred.
• Preferred qualification: Solid knowledge of secure coding practices and hands-on experience with open source technologies. Experience implementing SAAS/third-party products and building/deploying APIs for Digital Asset Management Systems. Ability to conduct performance analysis and resolve production issues in large-scale distributed systems. Hands-on manager who leads by example to motivate and challenge the team to deliver their best. Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills. Comfortable with ambiguity — able to focus themselves and the team, and drive forward progress. Adept at prioritizing multiple workstreams in a dynamic environment, with experience in Agile methodologies and continuous software delivery. Highly proactive with both systems and people — anticipates needs and identifies where the team might struggle.

Employment details

• Location: Hyderabad [India]

About the employer

• Join Apple’s Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) organization.
• It’s Apple’s central nervous system.
• Retail and Marcom Engineering, an IS&T team, builds and operates the systems and experiences that connect Apple's products with its customers.
• Together, those functions deliver the technology behind every product story Apple tells and every purchase a customer makes.

Additional role details

• Do you want to help build some of the largest and most consequential enterprise and customer technology systems in the world?
• IS&T is the engine behind everything Apple does for customers and for the people who build for them.
• Supporting 2.5 billion active Apple devices, processing billions of secure transactions, and keeping the technology that defines modern life running flawlessly, IS&T makes the impossible feel effortless.Do you love building solutions to handle global complexity and immense scale?
• Imagine what you could do here.
• The team owns the technology behind both Apple's online and physical stores and drives the interactive marketing experiences and tools that keep creative operations moving.
• Marcom’s Digital Asset Management system (DAM) serves as the backbone repository of all in progress and completed assets used in Apple Marketing.
• Digital Asset Management focuses on developing a deep knowledge of Marcom's content development processes for a diverse portfolio of digital assets at massive scale.
• Using this knowledge and extensive experience with enterprise digital asset management, implement and evangelize solutions which will streamline Marcom's content management workflow.
• A key part of the job Is understanding end-to-end business processes in the Asset Management realm and implement solutions that meet these business needs.
• You've grown into leadership after proving your technical skills as an individual contributor, and you still enjoy rolling up your sleeves when the situation calls for it.
• Responsible for design, architecture, and delivery of key applications, ensuring availability, security, reliability, and scalability at scale.
• Drive technical decision-making for the team and partner with other engineering managers and stakeholders on architecture, roadmap, and cross-team alignment.
• Partner closely with business and creative stakeholders to translate Marcom's content management workflows into scalable technical solutions.
• Stay hands-on where needed — contribute to design reviews, code, and complex problem-solving alongside the team.
• Proactively identify and resolve risks, bottlenecks, and production issues, keeping the team focused and unblocked across multiple concurrent workstreams.