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Manager - Tech Lead - Restaurant Technology

Company Description

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. 

Job Description

The Commercial Product & Platform vision develops global technology products and platforms that delight our customers and enable our crews to operate our restaurants efficiently and effectively.

The Manager Tech Lead for Restaurant Technology will be responsible for the technical direction, strategy, overall deployment and adoption of POS and capabilities within our restaurants.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities

  • Establish a technical vision and strategy for restaurant products, specifically focusing on McDonald’s Point of Sale System
  • Drive a technical direction for the product, participate in any relevant partner selection, and lead a development team
  • Assist with critical transformation effort to modernize McDonald’s POS and reduce complexity and time to deploy
  • Partner with our restaurant platform, product, and engineering teams to review architecture, solution designs and drive alignment on a Platform and Application North Star
  • Attend all squad level ceremonies and act as the leader of the Software Development Engineers (SDE’s) of the respective squad (only if not TL reports present)
  • Partner with PM (in a Product squad) to own the entire lifecycle of the backlog grooming process
  • Lead the output (quality and efficiency) of external vendor squads to ensure they are delivering to the standards required by McD
  • Ensure the code development is in line with the architectural, quality and security standards and practices
  • Maintain documentation standards for all software shipped by the squad
  • Answer technical questions from the squads and stay accountable for technical solutioning
  • Accountable for deployment of new features including QA, push to production and defect remediation
  • Mentor junior TLs
  • Assist and be the subject matter authority on features and capabilities to our development partners and other product teams to ensure alignment
  • Coordinate and/or implement plans to ensure that technical solutions meet the needs of the business.
  • Build and implement optimization experiments to validate and optimize features adoption
  • Collaborate across functions (e.g. Market partners, IT, and Program Management) to ensure the timely delivery of products
  • Provide leadership to team members and peers by collaborating; articulating ideas and viewpoints to senior management, peers, and others; identifying and initiating projects; leading resources; driving the resolution of issues; and holding self and team accountable for results
  • Serve as a technical subject matter professional for junior configurators, providing on the job mentoring/training, assisting with configuration design, and reviewing work products

Benefits eligible: Yes
Bonus eligible: Yes
Long term incentive eligible: Yes
The expected salary range for this role is $129,800 – $165,490 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.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years of technology experience required
  • .NET experience preferred
  • 1+ years of Agile Product Management experience, preferably on customer-facing products leading agile development teams
  • Significant software development experience, with knowledge of Agile software development process
  • Experience teaming up with team members across an at-scale, complex, global matrixed org setup
  • Excellent understanding of latest development technologies
  • Experiences with code refactoring, design patterns, iterative development, continuous deployment, highly scalable applications, and application security
  • Skilled in pair programming, continuous integration, development without testing, and gradual design
  • Experience in Agile Development, application of Agile techniques and delivery practices
  • Encourages Agile methodologies adoption to ensure dedicated attitude in product teams
  • Strong communication skills with ability to explain complex technical decisions to non-technical collaborators
  • A bias toward action and incremental improvements
  • Strong quantitative analysis skills; analytics approach and skills in research and analysis
  • A passion for driving an improved customer experience as well as a passion for improving operations
  • A love of new technologies and the drive to find ways to implement better tools and processes
  • Retail and Digital technology experience - especially point of sale systems
  • Experience translating customer needs into product features
  • Strong ability to speak to, as well as collaborate with, engineers, project managers, corporate leadership, and partners
  • Experience leading multi-functional teams and managing indirect reports to achieve organizational goals
  • Experience and expertise in project and product planning, including product definition, feature prioritization, trade-off processes, and roadmap creation
  • Curious, committed, and a self-starter with a strong preference for taking initiative; Demonstrated history of achieving results
  • Customer-centric approach with a passion for understanding consumer behavior, trends, and opportunities for innovation

Additional Information

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.

McDonald’s provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin, age, disability status, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, protected military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Nothing in this job posting or description should be construed as an offer or guarantee of employment.

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McDonald's Corporation is a chain of fast food restaurants. Headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, the company's famous menu items include the Big Mac, Chicken McNuggets and Egg McMuffin. McDonald's is a publicly owned company and operates a Canadi...

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