Manager - Data Development

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

We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join our Global Data & Analytics team as a Data Development Manager. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading and managing our data product, including prioritizing the technical product backlog. This involves balancing new features, functional requirements, non-functional requirements, and cross-team requests, as well as coordinating deployments with Product Managers within the Data & Analytics team. The Data Development Manager must possess experience or demonstrate an aptitude for developing extensive domain knowledge across multiple products. The Data Development Manager will oversee the activities of their development squad as the primary technology business representative and decision-maker, collaborating closely with the overall product team.

In this role, you will lead data initiatives to enhance McDonald's data product organization globally. In addition, you will work with business customers and stakeholders to define and deliver technical data product solutions using a mix of internal and external resources, ensuring successful integration with existing McDonald’s systems.

Responsibilities

1. Product knowledge and strategy for the future – Technical and business understand

Mastery of Your product

• Serve as an expert going deep on how your product works. Understand the data ingest, transform, load, table structures -both inbound and outbound
• Understand the technical components of your products and be able to identify key stakeholders  
• Recognize product performance from an end-user standpoint including data quality, responsiveness, reliability, etc.
• Be able to engage in a conversation on all facets of your products, and require others’ input only to go particularly deep
• Develop the data product’s target technical roadmap and key technology decisions to deliver the roadmap

Mastery of the technology involved in your product

• Be able to engage in discussions regarding whether your product is using the right solutions, and always looking forward to continuously evolve and improve
• Be able to understand the issues involved in major decisions and provide feedback on architecture, even in areas you are not an expert in
• Collaborate with Data & Solution Architects to launch scalable and reliable data solutions, support system integration efforts, and create operational efficiencies through automation and process improvements
• Manage technical interdependencies and interfaces of their product with other systems and products
• Establish best practices for identifying, analyzing and managing technical risks.
• Responsible for testing strategy and the quality of the outputs of the internal/external development teams
• Provide people leadership for data engineers, professional development and engineering resources allocated to the product
• Define critical non-functional requirements that sustain throughout the data product lifecycle
• Participate in release preparation and planning
• Manage temporary solutions and technical debt at the squad level
• Serve as subject matter expert across all McDonald’s data systems.
• Participate in data quality initiatives.

Mastery of the innovations in your product

• Form and constantly update a viewpoint on how your product fits into the broader domain
• Architect and define a systems landscape to connect data flows across all McDonalds Data systems.
• Constantly re-evaluate how your product is delivering value to the customer/end user/etc. and pivot as needed
  • For example: We should be doing X, Y, Z for completeness in terms of delivering on end-user needs. How do we evolve our products to be complete in order to drive the thinking of the product.

2. Stakeholder / Customer Obsession – Keeping customers top of mind

Own the product roadmaps

• Continually manage the product roadmaps to support product vision and to deliver on key business priorities
• Map the product roadmaps to a single product release plan and provide visibility to markets and other business stakeholders
• Maintain documentation of product roadmap and provide visibility to the markets and other business stakeholders
• Actively manage and drive accountability of 3rd party technology vendors
• Ability to synthesize information and communicate effectively to a broad range of stakeholders

Be customer obsessed – ensure your products are working well and evolving appropriately

• Ensure features are built for global functions and markets
• Conduct business acceptance of features and epics according to the definition of done
• Conduct regular end-user product feedback sessions and enhance products accordingly
• Be an advocate for the end-user experience
• Leverage your team to ensure these aspects are being accounted for

3. Collaboration Capability – Working with others across the organization

Be the catalyst for collaboration

• Join forces with other Product Managers across the organization to ensure alignment and coordination across products as necessary for multi-product work and initiatives
• Partner with Initiative Leads & Stakeholders to maximize value delivery

Own the product backlogs

• Participate in Intake Product Triage and decompose ideation tickets into Epics & Features with the help of the BTA, Project managers and deployment managers
• Prioritize the product backlog for all products

4. Capacity and Resource Management – Managing your product team

Manage capacity and demand for team

• Manage allocated resource and capacity including development, market enablement, bug resolution, and testing and reevaluate based on prioritized roadmap
• Leveraging the product roadmap and release plan, provide capacity forecasting to Demand Management so they can engage third parties in advance when additional support or capacity is required
• Guide work through McDonald’s Demand Management Process

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 or related field
• 5+ years of technically focused experience in related technologies and languages

• Experience leading cross functional teams to align and deliver projects
• Experience partnering with stakeholders across an at-scale, complex, global matrix org structure
• Working knowledge of cloud-based data systems, including AWS and GCP
• Seasoned technical leader with hands-on development and deployment experience with insights into the newest technology and development trends
• Experience in McDonald’s restaurant technology preferred - knowledge of McDonald’s Digital Stack and relevant Data systems
• Experience using JIRA and Confluence is preferred
• Experience working in an Agile team, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives
• Experience working with monitoring and incident management tools such as Service Now preferred
• Strong communication skills with ability to communicate complex technical concepts and align organization on decisions with stakeholders of all levels of expertise
• Detail-oriented, well organized, analytical and with independent reasoning and problem-solving skills and a passion for innovation
• Team player with a strong work ethic
• Minimal travel required
• Role is Chicago-based, working primarily on-site at McDonalds Headquarters

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 mcdhrbenefits@us.mcd.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

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