Data Engineer III

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Date: Apr 7, 2026

Location: Chicago, IL, US, 60607

Company: McDonald's Corporation

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.  

Duties

We are seeking a highly motivated individual to be our Data Engineer with strong technical and communication skills for our Customer Data Products, End-to-End (E2E) integrated testing team. This role requires both business and technical expertise working with various integrated applications, Data, Product teams and Global Market partners. E2E team plays vital role to bridge the gap between McDonald’s Digital and Data systems with E2E integrated testing support to deliver required quality data to our business partners for marketing and reporting needs so this role is crucial in our Customer domain.

This role is based in Chicago, IL

Responsibilities

  • Team up with E2E team to understand existing E2E integrations with upstream and downstream applications, environments mapping, testing strategy, design, evolving scope and implement continuous improvements
  • Participate in daily scrum for day-to-day updates, understand testing needs for ongoing and upcoming initiatives
  • Capture requirements, design/architect, develop, and implement day-to-day testing automation needs for the team
  • Document artifacts for the solutions built, optimize for continuous improvements with emerging tools and technologies
  • Develop, deploy, and monitor day-to-day automation builds using both open source and proprietary tools/applications
  • Partner with internal Data product team/s, upstream Digital and downstream systems for E2E integration, testing, defect triage, troubleshoot and resolution
  • Identify and manage necessary infrastructure, tools and environments for the required integration, development, deployment, testing, and automation needs
  • Develop and manage automated testing workstreams, review new requirements and add test cases for Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD) and Continuous Testing (CT)
  • Develop/maintain source code with Git, Code Commit, CICD pipeline builds and deployments
  • Lead E2E team when coordinating with stakeholders from Markets, various team leads, products and identify issues/resolution in timely manner to prevent unnecessary escalations.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Engineering, Software, or relevant technology field
  • 10+ years of experience as Software Engineer, Data Engineer, or combined work experience
  • 10+ years of experience working in Java, Python, HTML, JavaScript, Node.js, Terraform, SQL and NoSQL
  • Experienced with large scale enterprise application development, deployment, integration, and testing
  • Experienced writing SQL scripts, Store Procedures and Functions on large complex data sets, Datawarehouse, ETL, reporting and analytics
  • Experienced developing shell scripts, creating batch scripts, Linux, Cron and CICD pipeline workflows. Use of programming languages such as Java and Python to build and optimize those automations
  • Hands on experience automating to create data in various data formats for load and performance testing
  • Development experience with Big Data processing frameworks, ETL tools, API tools, Data integrations and data pipeline automations
  • Experienced with AWS and GCP Cloud services, Airflow DAGs, DBT, Talend Studio, Databricks
  • Experienced with various testing frameworks and automations such as OpenTest, Junit, JMeter, Selenium
  • Experienced with developing reporting dashboards in New Relic, Kibana, Grafana, Tableau
  • Well versed with various data generation sources such as Mobile, Web, POS, Kiosk and data format such as JSON, SOAP, CSV, Parquet, Avro, XML
  • Skilled with customer facing applications such as native app, web, multiple integration layers, databases, event transactions, log data, elastic search, message queueing, transformations, processing, and storage
  • Experienced with N-tier architecture, Client/Server, Pub/Sub and distributed micro services development.
  • Thorough knowledge of customer data flow from Account registration flow to Order transactions, Subscriptions, Offer redemptions, Loyalty program, Mobile Ordering & Payments, and Marketing CRM tools.
  • Good knowledge of legal compliance when working with Data privacy, and various Markets such as GDPR, CCPA, PCI and HIPPA
  • Previous experience in McDonald’s or similar QSR business model, large-scale E-commerce applications.

Nice to have:

  • Certified with AWS Solutions Architect Associate or higher certifications
  • Certified with GCP Cloud Engineer, Data practitioner or higher certifications.

Compensation

Bonus Eligible: Yes

Long - Term Incentive: Yes

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Salary Range

The expected salary range for this role is $138,207.00 - $172,758.00 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.

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. 

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. 


Nearest Major Market: Chicago