Senior Manager, Solution Architecture

McDonald’s growth strategy, Accelerating the Arches, encompasses all aspects of our business as the leading global omni-channel restaurant brand. As the consumer landscape shifts we are using our competitive advantages to further strengthen our brand. One of our core growth strategies is to Double Down on the 3Ds (Delivery, Digital and Drive Thru). McDonald’s will accelerate technology innovation so 65M+ customers a day will experience a fast, easy experience, whether at one of our 25,000 and growing Drive thrus, through McDelivery, dine-in or takeaway. 

McDonald’s Global Technology is here to power tomorrow’s feel-good moments.That’s why you’ll find us at the forefront of transformative technology, exploring new and innovative ways to serve our millions of customers and spread happiness one delicious Hot Fudge Sundae-dipped fry at a time. Using AI, robotics and emerging tech, we’re digitizing the Golden Arches. Combine that with our unparalleled global scale, and we’re reshaping all areas of the business, industry and every community that is home to a McDonald’s restaurant. We face complex tech challenges every day. But that’s where our diverse and talented teams come in. They’re made up of the best and brightest from all over the globe, and they thrive in the space where feel-good meets fast-paced.  

Check out the McDonald’s  Global Technology Technical Blog to learn how technology and our global team are directly enabling the Accelerating the Arches strategy. 

The Senior Solutions Architect/Tech Lead plays a crucial role in analyzing solution requests, formulating architectures, and leading technology-driven solutions. This role involves collaborating with teams for CI/CD of AWS resources, improving products, and guiding system development. The architect leads solution delivery, ensures timely execution, manages vendor teams, addresses technical challenges, adheres to standards, and mentors others. The position also contributes to enterprise blueprints, technical specifications, and strategic planning.

• Analyzes new solution requests, solicits and clarifies requirements, and formulates conceptual and physical architectures to rapidly deliver solutions.
• Provides direction for and leads technology-driven solutions and capabilities.
• Collaborates with multi-functional teams to research, architect, and automate the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) of a wide variety of Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources hosting data platform components.
• Determines, designs, and drives product improvements.  Creatively initiates new ideas for system improvement, develops solution, and guides team in delivering.
• Provides input to McDonald’s Enterprise Architects on enterprise solution blueprints.
• Leads entire team including vendor architects & engineers in all solution delivery and technology innovations throughout all stages of the Agile development life cycle. 
  • Leads the vendor architects in developing detailed solutions
  • Leads the developers on execution of the solution
  • Partners with the project owner, project managers and PMO on delivering the solutions on time
  • Partners with the data quality validation team
  • Develops solutions for more significant bugs found during end-to-end testing
  • Provides thought leadership in post-production troubleshooting including bugs causing high traffic issues
• Helps teams to deliver the product on time, on budget and ensuring that is solves the objectives it was designed to solve.
• Deep technical thinker and complex problem solver for complex technical challenges.
• Sets and/or enforces McDonald’s architecture/engineering standards for solution implementations.  Determines the direction for standards for new development which the team adheres to. 
• Determines projections for product growth for budgeting and planning purposes.
• Actively participates in and mentors the McDonald’s architecture and engineering communities.

Specific Responsibilities

• Develops and contributes to the overall blueprints and detailed technical specifications for new business initiatives
• Continual creation of ideas and design of solutions for improving the product
• Determines which technology to use where and for what in solutions
• Communicates solutions to project team
• Reviews project team’s detailed specifications to ensure accurate interpretation of the requirements and solution
• Reviews development team sql and provide guidance, input and approvals
• Leads problem solving of issues, partnering with the development team
• Provides technical input and direction on new software packages and technology tools
• Defines applicable security requirements and solutions
• Advises on contractual technical SLAs
• Maintains overall integration system flow diagrams to allow for quick understanding of change impacts
• Communicates monthly to team of upcoming designs and solicits input and feedback
• Shares expertise with new hires in the form of the “CCP Class”
• Coaches the data architect on how to maintain the data model and metadata
• Continues to increase personal knowledge of the AWS, Apache GCP and other relevant technology stacks
• Participates in wider team architectural reviews such as D&AI Solutioning meetings
• Participates in external peer communities
• Participates in Product Backlog Refinement
• Participates in Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives
• Provides product expertise to the business, product team and other department teams
• Supports the Legal Department in customer queries and data retrievals
• Provides projections of data growth expected

Benefits eligible: Yes
Bonus eligible: Yes
Long term incentive eligible: Yes
The expected salary range for this role is $149,260 – $190,310 per year 
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we may also consider your experience, and other job-related factors.

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology field is required
• 5+ years of professional experience architecting solutions in AWS with the following suites: AWS, Atlassian Suite products including Jira/Confluence
• Proficiency with AWS products including: Amazon Redshift, EC2, SQS, S3, Cloudwatch, SecretsManager, Lambda, API Gateway, Fargate, Step Functions, CodeCommit, Glue and RDS Databases
• Proficiency with Apache products including: Kafka, HBase, Spark
• Proficiency with NewRelic
• Proficiency in no code/low code/nosql software solutions
• Familiarity with encryption mechanisms and protocols such as PGP, AES-256
• Familiar with CI/CD enablers such as Jenkins, GitHub, and jFrog
• Ability to make the appropriate recommendations based on the AWS Well-Architected framework and best practices for multiple AWS service categories including Compute, Storage, Database, Network & Content Delivery, Security, Identity, and Compliance, Management & Governance, Machine Learning, and Development Tools
• Proficient in sql
• Excellent written, verbal, and meeting facilitation skills
• Experienced in Agile software development

Desired skills

• Understanding of other cloud service provider offerings including Azure & Google Cloud
• Experienced with Reltio
• Experienced with ErWin and Model Manager
• AWS Solutions Architect – Associate Certification

Benefits eligible: This position offers health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, adoption assistance program, educational assistance program, flexible ways of working, and time off policies (including sick leave, parental leave, and vacation/PTO). Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on job classification and length of employment. 

Bonus eligible: This position is eligible for a bonus, calculated based on individual and company performance.

Long term Incentive eligible: This position is eligible for stock or other equity grants pursuant to McDonald’s long-term incentive plan.

McDonald’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our workforce. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. McDonald’s provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities as part of the application or hiring process or to perform the essential functions of their job. If you need assistance accessing or reading this job posting or otherwise feel you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process, please contact [email protected]. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

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