Solutions Architect - FCCS

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Date: Oct 14, 2025

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.  

Role Overview

This opportunity is part of the Global Technology Enterprise Products & Platforms (EPP) Team, focused on Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions including Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Financial Consolidation and Close, and Account Reconciliation product areas, where our vision is to “Always be a... people led, product centric, forward-thinking & trusted technology partner”.

 

The Solutions Architect role is responsible for designing and maintaining solutions blueprints for products and working with product engineering teams to implement solution design. This includes designing, configuring, and supporting implementation of innovative solutions that align with business objectives and technology strategy. This role will report to the Sr. Manager, Technical Product Management.

 

Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

Solution Design and Architecture

  • Work closely with stakeholders to understand their business objectives, challenges, and requirements
  • Develop comprehensive architectural designs for technology solutions across multiple products that meet business requirements and integrate seamlessly with existing McDonald’s systems and platforms
  • Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and resilient, in line with industry best practices and McDonald’s standards, aiming to strike a balance between innovation and stability
  • Create and maintain architectural documentation, including high-level design and configuration documents, architecture diagrams and technical specifications
  • Defines enterprise technical standards & ensures adherence
  • Communicate these effectively to stakeholders, ensuring everyone understands the rationale behind architectural choices and their implications
  • Plays pivotal role in design, development, testing and deployment of the overall solution. Experience working collaboratively in a predominantly supplier-enabled, outsource technology delivery environment
  • Provides guidance and necessary clarifications to the boundary and integration systems and works with boundary and integration systems to troubleshoot and mitigate any source/destination issues and requirements. Perform root cause analysis with team.
  • Analyze Patches and plan patch deployment activities

Technology Strategy and Roadmap

  • Collaborate with product leadership teams to define and evolve the technology strategy and roadmap for the technology suite
  • Identify emerging technologies and trends towards enhancing McDonald’s technology stack in the respective business area towards improving outcomes
  • Provide guidance during evaluation and selection of new technologies, platforms and vendors

Collaborate with Cross-functional Teams

  • Foster collaboration with product managers, development teams, operations, security, and business units towards ensuring alignment between architectural vision and product development efforts
  • Engage in regular communication and alignment meetings to ensure everyone is on the same page and working towards common goals

Implementation and Support

  • Oversee the implementation of architectural solutions and provide hands-on technical support and troubleshooting for complex issues, ensuring timeline resolution and minimal disruption to operations

Governance and Compliance

  • Establish and enforce frameworks, policies and standards to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and McDonald’s policies
  • Identify potential risks and vulnerabilities in IT systems and propose mitigation strategies
  • Work with cybersecurity experts to ensure that systems are resilient against cyber threats and comply with relevant regulations and standards

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in solution architecture, with focus on large-scale, global technology environments
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
  • Deep understanding of Oracle cloud EPM platforms and experience with cloud-native architecture
  • Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
  • Experience applying Product and Agile ways of working that includes best practices and lessons learned to standardize and refine ways of working
  • Highly experienced working collaboratively with business partners and product teams to drive outcomes and solve complex technical challenges, across a complex, global matrixed organization setup 
  • Possess effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
  • Strong problem solving and innovation skills to identify, develop, and make improvements to techniques, procedures, services, or products
  • Deep knowledge of Oracle Cloud EPM modules, including Planning, Budgeting, Consolidation, and Reporting
  • Experience with EDM and/or ARCS applications
  • Proficiency in SQL, data integration tools, and scripting languages
  • Experience with Oracle Cloud infrastructure and integration capabilities
  • Ability to provide thought leadership around EPM Best practices and industry trends to drive optimization and improve end user experience
  • Evaluate project constraints to identify risks/gaps to the proposed technical solution
  • Proficiency with ITIL and Agile frameworks and tools (e.g. JIRA and Confluence)
  • Experience in creating and maintaining detailed technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, configuration guides, and user manuals

 

Preferred Qualifications

  • Certification in one or more Oracle EPM Cloud Products preferred
  • Experienced implementing and managing IT General Controls (ITGC) to ensure SOX compliance
  • Knowledge of Finance business processes and a clear understanding of finance best practices
  • Foundational understanding/experience in security: security standards, SSO, SAML, OAUTH, etc.
  • Understanding of Cloud architecture and EPM cloud security
  • Experience in DevOps, Security and Systems Performance
  • Experience with Workiva
  • Experience with cybersecurity experts to ensure that systems are resilient against cyber threats and comply with relevant regulations and standards is desirable

Compensation

Bonus Eligible: YES

Long - Term Incentive: YES

Benefits Eligible: YES

Salary Range

The expected salary range for this role is $129,800.00 - $165,490.00 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. 


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