Manager - Tech Lead, Consent & Privacy - McDonald's Corporation

McDonald's evolving Accelerating the Arches growth strategy puts our customers and people first and demonstrates our competitive advantages to strengthen our brand. We are recognized on lists like Fortune’s Most Admired Companies and Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies.

Doubling Down on the 4Ds (Delivery, Digital, Drive Thru, and Development)

Our growth pillars emphasize the critical role technology plays as the best-in-class, global omni-channel restaurant brand. Technology enables the organization through digital technologies, and improving the customer, crew and employee experience each and every day!

Global Technology forging the way

Leading the digitization of our business is the Technology organization made up of innovation specialists who build industry defining tech using the latest innovations and platforms, like AI and edge computing to deliver on the next set of groundbreaking opportunities for the business. We take on technology innovation challenges at an incredible scale, and work across global teams who are always hungry for a challenge! This provides access to compelling career paths for technologists. It’s bonus points when you get to see your family and friends use the tech you build at their favorite McD restaurant.

This opportunity is part of the Global Technology Commercial Products & Platforms team, where our vision is to develop technology that delights our customers and enables our crews to operate our restaurants reliably and effectively.

The Manager - Tech Lead, Consent & Privacy is an outstanding role that combines engineering expertise with key partnerships and integrations with our consent management platform. This position is crucial in ensuring data reliability, privacy, and security. As the Tech Lead, you will drive the engineering mix towards completing the backlog, own the solution and development of the product/platform features, and lead the squad's daily activities. You will also collaborate closely with product, design, legal, and data teams to leverage vendor capabilities across our digital products and platforms in ways that engage and delight our customers.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• Attend all squad-level ceremonies and act as the leader of the Software Development Engineers (SDE’s) of the respective squad
• 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 McDonald's.
• Ensure the code development is in line with the architectural, quality, and security standards.
• Maintain documentation standards for all software shipped by the squad.
• Answer technical questions from the squads and stay accountable for technical solutions.
• Accountable for deployment of new features, including QA, push to production, and defect remediation.

• 5+ years experience working in a software development environment as an engineer, data analyst, or data product manager with knowledge of Agile software development process
• Familiar partnering with stakeholders across an at-scale, complex, global matrixed organizational setup
• Excellent understanding of the latest development technologies
• Infrastructure knowledge
• Experiences with code refactoring, design patterns, design-driven development, continuous deployment, highly scalable applications, and application security
• Experience in pair programming, continuous integration, test-driven development & incremental design
• Experience in Agile Development, application of Agile techniques and delivery practices
• Promotes adoption of Agile methodologies to secure outcome-driven mindset in product teams

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