McDonald's · 3 months ago
Director, Data Engineering - Customer Data Platform
Chicago, IL, US, 60607
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$168K/yr - $219K/yr
15+ years expMcDonald's is a leading global omni-channel restaurant brand focused on innovative technology solutions. The Director of Data Engineering will lead a large team to manage customer data products and analytics, ensuring high-quality data flows and strategic execution for data accessibility and integration.
Restaurants
Responsibilities
Build and evolve our Customer Data and data products. Work spans data ingestion, ETL/ELT, data access. And then also, analytics products, including data-driven marketer facing activation tools, such as mParticle and Braze
Strategize and execute, on making data to be ever more accessible, reliable, and integrated into decision-making and marketer-activation processes
Work with teams doing data quality tools, and master data management tooling, but taking ultimate accountability for ensuring high quality data flows
Lead managers of teams building and upgrading our customer-facing data sets and analytics products. McDonald’s loyalty program and mobile app reaches millions, and the scale is significant
Engage global market leaders in evolving our MarTech data strategy and product roadmaps
Champion a culture of continuous leaning and innovation within data & analytics product teams
Partner with Directors of other Data & Analytics areas, including Sales Transactions, Restaurant Operations and Supply Chain
Budget management, including high-level budget forecasting and on-going tracking
Qualification
Required
Optimal candidate has proven experience (15+ years) background, covering (i) software and data engineering core skills, (ii) people leadership of engineering teams and (iii) experience with stakeholder relationship building and alignment
Undergraduate and/or master's degree in computer-related technical area preferred
Data product management leadership exposure
Proven ability to have empathy with users of enterprise-grade complex data. Typically, this comes from having written SQL at some point in your career
Can effectivity engage with stakeholders, ranging from functional leaders to data-users
Can lead teams of mixed US and India based engineering work, and can help steer problem solving for how teams build software-based products
Familiar with cloud-based software engineering
Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across departments
Team development: Can recruit, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of data professionals
Can identify process issues, and steer teams in executing process improvements
Takes personal pride in how your teams build reliable, cutting-edge software systems that optimally deliver on business needs for accessibility, quality, cost-efficiency, and extensibility
Benefits
Health and welfare benefits
A 401(k) plan
Adoption assistance program
Educational assistance program
Flexible ways of working
Time off policies (including sick leave, parental leave, and vacation/PTO)
Bonus, calculated based on individual and company performance
Stock or other equity grants pursuant to McDonald’s long-term incentive plan
Company
McDonald's
McDonald’s is the world’s leading global foodservice retailer with over 37,000 locations in over 100 countries.
10001+ employees
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