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At Apple, new ideas become extraordinary products, services and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there is no telling what you can accomplish.\nThe Core Data & Intelligence organization builds the data, models and services that accelerate the growth of Apple's services. We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager based in Shanghai, China to lead data engineering and quality efforts spanning Apple Services Engineering. You will build and lead a high-performing engineering team comprising data and quality engineers, set the technical direction for large-scale data foundations, services, and automated validation platforms, and partner with cross-functional leaders to turn business needs into scalable, high-quality, privacy-first solutions.\nDescription\nAs a Senior Engineering Manager within Apple Services Engineering, you will direct an integrated engineering team responsible for the design, development, quality assurance and operation of massive-scale data pipelines and services across multiple lines of business. Your team's work will support customer-facing features, internal reporting and analytics, and external partner integrations, all held to Apple's exacting standards for reliability, data integrity and privacy.\nYou will drive both software delivery and quality engineering, championing automated testing, continuous verification, and robust data reconciliation across the entire data lifecycle. 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